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Writers Whose Names You Don’t Know

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Writers Whose Names You Don’t Know
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Today marks the opening of our October online-submissions period for prose and poetry. This week, we asked our assistant editor, Owen Park, to describe the journey a piece can take from the slush pile into our pages.
Over the past seventy-three years, The Paris Review’s commitment to reading unsolicited submissions has yielded the discoveries of work by writers such as Yiyun Li, Philip Roth, and Wells Tower. We know that the next writer we fall for won’t necessarily have a

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