I selected two wonderful artists — Colter Jacobsen and Tauba Auerbach— for the Sept issue of the Paris Review, the first issue edited by Lorin Stein, who writes in his intro: “Often we hear the question asked, in panels and symposia, “Can the literary journal in print thrive in the age of the Internet?” The real question is not whether journals can survive in some imagined future, but what we ourselves want and need. And when have we needed a great print journal more? Most of us spend our days in an enforced state of distraction, with nothing allowed to sink in. This Review is designed to sink in. It can’t be surfed. It won’t deliver your e-mail. It is, we submit to you, pleasing to the eye. The works here will demand that you read them from start to finish, or not at all. Reader, we are constantly told that there aren’t enough of you anymore. Experience teaches us otherwise.” They also re-launched their site, thanks to Thessaly LaForce, and its great. :)
