Freedom to Fuck Up: An Interview with Merritt Tierce
Photo: Michael Lionstar In Merritt Tierce’s debut novel, Love Me Back, life does not go as planned. A Texas high school student named Marie becomes pregnant on a missionary trip when she’s only...
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Nancy and Vincent: Friends or foes? Only time will tell. Photo: Picasa/Aldebaran Soon to appear at the library in Westport, Connecticut: robots, two of them. “Vincent” and “Nancy” “have blinking eyes...
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Who gets to name an author’s book?When I was readying my first novel for publication, it struck me that writers have far more control over what’s in their books than what’s on them—the cover art,...
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This could be you, writer!Ottessa Moshfegh wrote her novel Eileen with a plan: to get fucking rich. As a fiction writer, she thought, there’s only one way to do that—give the people the formulaic...
View ArticleIntroducing the Winners of the 2019 Whiting Awards
For the fifth consecutive year, The Paris Review Daily is pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Whiting Awards. As in previous years, we’re also delighted to share excerpts from work by each of...
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Merritt Tierce. Photo: Kent Barker. Merritt Tierce was born and raised in Texas and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award in 2011 and was a 2013...
View ArticleFreedom to Fuck Up: An Interview with Merritt Tierce
Photo: Michael Lionstar In Merritt Tierce’s debut novel, Love Me Back, life does not go as planned. A Texas high school student named Marie becomes pregnant on a missionary trip when she’s only...
View ArticleOh, Shit, There Are Robots in the Library, and Other News
Nancy and Vincent: Friends or foes? Only time will tell. Photo: Picasa/Aldebaran Soon to appear at the library in Westport, Connecticut: robots, two of them. “Vincent” and “Nancy” “have blinking eyes...
View ArticleTitle Fights
Who gets to name an author’s book? When I was readying my first novel for publication, it struck me that writers have far more control over what’s in their books than what’s on them—the cover art,...
View ArticleI Would Like to Be Paid to Write, and Other News
This could be you, writer! Ottessa Moshfegh wrote her novel Eileen with a plan: to get fucking rich. As a fiction writer, she thought, there’s only one way to do that—give the people the formulaic...
View ArticleIntroducing the Winners of the 2019 Whiting Awards
For the fifth consecutive year, The Paris Review Daily is pleased to announce the winners of the 2019 Whiting Awards. As in previous years, we’re also delighted to share excerpts from work by each of...
View ArticleMerritt Tierce, Fiction
Merritt Tierce. Photo: Kent Barker. Merritt Tierce was born and raised in Texas and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award in 2011 and was a 2013...
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