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theparisreview23 karma

A handful of our favorites: Foxing Quarterly, n+1, The White Review (founded by a former Paris Review intern), The New York Review of Books, The Public Domain Review, The New York Tyrant, to name just a few.

theparisreview18 karma

The salutation. (Anything that doesn't come from an agent is technically "slush," which isn't a pejorative.)

If you mean, How much of a story do we read before we reject it, then, as a general rule: first five pages, last five pages.

theparisreview16 karma

It has to do with whether they hit the return key.

theparisreview16 karma

Norman Mailer's thumb.