Following yesterday’s announcement that New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch would take over the post-Plimpton TPR, Edward Wyatt files a quick update on Gourevitch for the Times. Among the highlights:
- At the time of Brigid Hughes’ firing, “board members said that they wanted a better-known literary figure at the helm, someone who could raise The Paris Review‘s profile by attracting new writers as well as supporters who could contribute to its financial success.”
- Whether or not that describes Gourevitch, the correct pronunciation of the new editor’s last name is gor-A-vitch.
- Gor-A-vitch’s plans for the mag include printing single poets’ portfolios “rather than single poems by many poets throughout an issue.”
- Author of We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda, Gor-A-vitch also hopes to include “more reported nonfiction articles.”