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Gourevitch on Literature Today

by Bud Parr

The Paris Review’s editor Philip Gourevitch quoted in a Guardian profile on his emphasis on non-fiction:

“We’re living in complicated and dramatic times, and I feel that our literature, especially the periodical fiction, is rarely up to the wildness and boldness of the times, that it seldom expresses the outlandishness and range of the actors and actions that are shaping our world…”

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