Lorin Stein Named New Editor of The Paris Review

There has been a lot of speculation about who will or should take over for Philip Gourevitch as editor of The Paris Review, but the smoke has been spotted over the chimney and the answer is FSG editor Lorin Stein. Stein is not a name I’d heard mentioned, but he seems like a brilliant choice for The Paris Review. At FSG, Stein has been ushering out non-stop awesomeness from the likes of Denis Johnson, Lydia Davis, Roberto Bolano, Clancy Martin and, most recently, Sam Lipsyte. Under Gourevitch, a journalist by trade, The Paris Review’s nonfiction reputation blossomed but its fiction seemed to fade away. Perhaps Stein is the man to bring it back to par?

Read the press release here.