![]() Some unpublished writers of my acquaintance, even those for whom the quality of Ms. The prize will be awarded annually for the best piece of writing by a newcomer to appear in The Paris Review in a given year, continuing the tradition of the magazine’s Discovery Prize, which has been awarded to such writers as Elizabeth Gilbert, Julie Orringer, and Karl Iagnemma. The Paris Review Foundation inaugurated The Plimpton Prize to honor its longtime editor, George Plimpton, who presided over the magazine for fifty years, until his death in September 2003. The award announcement said the prize was for Yiyun Li’s “first published story, ‘Immortality,’ which appeared in the fiftieth-anniversary issue (Fall 2003).” According to the press release: Since then, Li has received The Paris Review‘s first annual Plimpton Prize. Kostecke charged that the characterization of Li as a new writer is “nothing but a gross attempt at the perpetuation of the myth … that the American lit world operates like some kind of fair democracy, instead of the shut-off, where-are-your-papers?, meaningless institution it has become.” He quoted a brief essay written by ULA member Steve Kostecke. Joshua Glenn of the Boston Globe picked up the story from the ULA. candidate in The Writers’ Workshop and The Creative Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa.” ![]() Toward the end of January, the news spread to the Underground Literary Alliance (ULA), which decried the characterization of Li as a new writer and cited a biographical blurb in The Gettysburg Review, from last summer, which says that Li’s “essay about the Tiananmen Square massacre was published in The Journal, and a short story is forthcoming from Glimmer Train. I was surprised and mentioned the succession of publications a few days later. Shortly after these interviews were published, a website noted that Yiyun Li’s work appeared in The Gettysburg Review last summer, before the Paris Review story came out, and that a story in The New Yorker followed closely on the heels of the Paris Review publication. In interviews after she accepted the job, Hughes emphasized her commitment to publishing new writers and cited Yiyun Li as an example of a young writer whose work was pulled from the pile of unsolicited submissions (“slush pile”). ![]() ![]() Her appointment followed the death of George Plimpton, the magazine’s founding editor. Interview with Brigid Hughes on unsolicited submissions and emerging writersīrigid Hughes was named Executive Editor of The Paris Review in early January. ![]()
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