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unusual facts about Paris Review



B. H. Fairchild

His most recent book is Usher (W.W. Norton, 2009), and his poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, TriQuarterly, The Hudson Review, Salmagundi, The Sewanee Review.

Meet cute

Billy Wilder uses it in a 1996 Paris Review interview, in reference to his 1938 screwball comedy film Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, adding that the concept was "a staple of romantic comedies back then".

Ritual clown

Jean Cazeneuve (1956) Sacred Clowns in New Mexico/Clowns sacrés du Nouveau Mexique, in Paris Review


see also

Christopher Browne

The movie, which chronicled George Plimpton's early years at the Paris Review, offered the opportunity to work alongside legendary documentarian Albert Maysles.