My Friend Ellis

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View this email in your browser FIRST PERSON  My Friend Ellis Geoffrey Mak "Over dumplings, we distinguished the varieties of the suicidal impulse: fatigue, boredom, panicked helplessness, deluded martyrdom, a relief from pain." FIRST PERSON Good Manners Hebe Uhart "Her silence made me feel like I was six or seven years old again, playing with a nutty girl I knew back then."   DIARIES July Notebook, 2018 Daniel Poppick "Plants are so self-referential." DISPATCH Fixer Upper: Larry McMurtry's Library Colin Ainsworth Reality TV magnates Chip and Joanna Gaines bought Larry McMurtry's collection of 300,000 books and put it in a Waco Hotel they're redesigning. Our reporter visited. THE REVIEW'S REVIEW Prince and the Afterworld: Dorothea Lasky and Tony Tulathimutte Recommend The Paris Review On Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" and Return of the Obra Dinn. 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.