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View this email in your browser LETTERS Letters to a Biographer Joyce Carol Oates "I declined an offer from our friend Lanny Jones, People editor, to write an O.J. essay for them, based upon a few days at the trial." RE-READING Sorting through the Wreckage: The Stories of Diane Oliver Tayari Jones "Neighbors evokes the feeling of sorting through a time capsule sealed and buried in the yard of a Southern African Methodist Episcopal church in the early 1960s." ON POETRY Nadja Küchenmeister and Aimee Chor on "feathers and planets" Nadja Küchenmeister and Aimee Chor "Something only comes to be because something else came into being before it."   ON CHILDREN'S BOOKS Caps for Sale B. J. Novak "The best children's books aren't advertisements for anything—not even the important things." Copyright © 2024 The Paris Review. All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: The Paris Review 544 West 27th Street 3rd Floor New York, New York 10001 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe if you must.