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The Paris Review

October 9th, 2008

The Rare Books and Manuscripts Library has acquired this past summer a complete run of The Paris Review from its very first issue in 1953 through the Spring issue of 2008.   The Paris Review is arguably the most pretigious and influential literary journal of the latter half of the twentieth century.  Its contributors form the pantheon of twenthieth-century iconic writers and include Nobel Prize, Pultizer Prize and National Book Award winners in addition to winners of virtually every international literary award.  A select, very seclect list of those writers will indicate the distinction of The Paris Review:  Samuel Beckett, Ernest Hemingway, Gabrial Garcia Marquez, Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, Vladimire Nabokov and Harold Pinter.  And, I reiterate, these are just a few of the hundreds of contributors to The Paris Review over the past 55 years.  In addition to the writing, the decorative design of the literary review is remarkable and will please students of the book arts.  The collection, which is in very good condition, was acquired from Ralph Sipper Books in Santa Barbara, California. 

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