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3198839 No.3198839 [Reply] [Original]

Thank you for submitting your manuscript. We regret that we are unable to publish it, but we appreciate your interest in The Paris Review.

Yours sincerely,
The Editors

>> No.3198841

Looks like the only option left is suicide, OP :(

>> No.3198861

France sucks anyway.

>> No.3198865

lol heartily OP, you should open your own publication devited to dissing the PR

>> No.3198866

>>3198861
Guess what, you suck.

OP, you should write something about female vampires making out. It will be published.

>> No.3198868

Dude, what are you doing. The Paris Review has fucking high standards. Start small and maybe after 30 years of being a published author they might give your stuff a look.

>> No.3198876

>>3198868

How do you know OP's publishing history? Getting a rejection letter means they looked it over. It didn't go to the shit pile.

>> No.3198877

>>3198839

consider the paris review and all other magazines and journals that have similarly high reputations a lottery. it is nothing to be sad about. it is a challenge, a great one, and you must keep trying.

>> No.3198896

I'm going to submit something. I just want a rejection letter stamped from The Paris Review.

>> No.3198898

>>3198896

You probably won't get a letter unless it's decent-good.

>> No.3198901

>>3198876
>How do you know OP's publishing history?

>Browsing 4chan and being this dumb.

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>>3198898
Well then I'll just have to write a decent-good story, won't I?

I'm currently reading Object Lessons from The Paris Review, I could write one of the lesser stories in it.

>> No.3198912

I always fear I'll accidentally write an acclaimed short story. Then there would be a huge demand for me but I wouldn't be able to write anything accidentally good again.

>> No.3198916

>>3198839

Post the story, OP. Do it you pussy. Actually I'm really interested in it. I imagine if you're actually submitting to well known lit mags you must be pretty decent. Are you an MFAfag by chance?

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3198919

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>> No.3198992

>>3198908
>I'm currently reading Object Lessons from The Paris Review, I could write one of the lesser stories in it.

do you say that even though you haven't and therefore don't know that you can, or because you already have something of comparable quality on hand?

>> No.3199001

>>3198896
Why would the send you a letter? That shit costs money.

>> No.3199008

ANYONE WHO HAS READ THE PARIS REVIEW KNOWS THE THING PUBLISHED CAN BE RATHER MEDIOCRE.

THE REASON WHY ALL YOUR WORKS ARE NOT PUBLISHED IS BECAUSE OF THIS CHECK LIST:

ARE YOU?

>KNOWN AUTHOR
>HYPED PERSONA
>GAY
>TRANSEXUAL
>BLACK
>WOMAN
>FEMINIST
>MINORITY
>ASIAN
>INDIAN
>SOMETHING INTERESTING

HAVE YOU NOT REALIZED THE ERRORS OF THE CURRENT LITERARY CLIMATE

TAO LIN WOULD NEVER HAVE SUCCEDED IF HIS NAME WAS JOHN SMITH FROM SUBURBIA

>> No.3199012

>>3198839
submit to a thousand places, OP, why the hell are you getting butthurt about one specific place?

>> No.3199021

>>3199008
>TAO LIN WOULD NEVER HAVE SUCCEDED IF HIS NAME WAS JOHN SMITH FROM SUBURBIA
That's what pen names are for.

Mine's going to be Oboyo Jackson

>> No.3199026

>>3198839
OP Don't give up! This is how great authors end up not getting published, they give up. You have to keep submitting, because the shitty authors are the over confident ones who keep sending in over and over and then get published because they get lucky. As a writer you must have thick skin. I know it sucked when I got my rejection letter from Tor, you have the romance of getting published by your favorite publisher and then rejection. It sucks but keep at it or the world will just end up with nothing but Stephanie Meyers.

>> No.3199043

>>3199021
I'm taking that name.

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>>3198919
I know THAT feel.

>> No.3199058

>>3198992
I've actually written two stories in the past week, I've revised one twice (still working on it), the other I just wrote the other day.

I will keep revising them, send one in, and report back if I get a response.

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>>3199001
Forever-stamps, nigga, I got a ton of them.

>> No.3199065

>>3199008
current issue of paris review

white male authors (9 of the 16 contributing authors)
Peter Orner
Tim Parks
James Salter
Steven Cramer
Geoffrey Hill
Devin Johnston
Ben Lerner
Joshua Mehigan
J.D Daniels

all of them are well known, acclaimed, professors and/or have been published previously, several in the Paris Review.

non-white, non-male authors (6 out of the 16)
Sarah Frisch (professor, previously published in New England Review)
Rachel Kushner (editor, published several times previously)
Yasiin Bey (famous rapper, actor, poet)
Regan Good (previously published novelist)
Susan Howe (published many times, storied career)
Linda Pastan (published many times, storied career)

finally, Marc Sheehan (race unknown) won a contest to be published in the issue. he had previously published two books of poetry

>> No.3199069

>>3199065
in case anyone thinks I am saying otherwise by not saying it explicitly, the non-white, non-male authors are also all well-known, acclaimed, professors and/or have been published previously

>> No.3199079

>>3199069

What about The New Yorker?

>> No.3199081

>>3199065
>>3199069
They are known. That is the first thing he listed.

>> No.3199082

>>3199069
also, the three issues before that:
issue 202 - 10 out of 15 are white, male. the other 5 are all well-known, acclaimed, professors and/or previously published.

issue 201 - 8 out of 18 are white, male (one of them is Virgil.) the other 10 are well-known, acclaimed, professors and/or previously published (one of them is Robert Bolano)

issue 200 - 11 out of 18 are white, male. the other 7 are well-known, acclaimed, professors and/or previously published

>>3199069
let me check

>> No.3199093

>>3199081
yes. they're all known.

>>3199079
>>3199082
nevermind, don't feel like it anymore. look it up yourself