The Paris Review has named Lorin Stein, a star editor at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, as the new editor of the venerable, 57-year old literary quarterly literary journal.
Stein, who has edited books that won the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Awards, has worked at FSG since 1998. He’s edited a range of big-name and debut authors, including Richard Price, Denis Johnson, Jonathan Franzen, Elif Batuman, Lydia Davis and Sam Lipsyte.
In a statement, publisher Antonio Weiss cited Stein’s “literary sensibility and eye for new talent” as key assets to the magazine, which has cycled through two top editors since the passing of its charismatic founding editor, George Plimpton, in 2003.
Stein replaces New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch, who assumed the post about five years ago and announced that he would resign last November in order to devote himself to a book about Rwanda. When Gourevitch took over, he redesigned the magazine, added photojournalism to its pages, and placed a greater emphasis on non-fiction, to the dismay of some who saw his changes as a departure from the magazine’s roots. Total circulation grew significantly under Gourevitch to 16,000 copies — almost quadruple the circulation he inherited.
Stein, who has edited books that won the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Awards, has worked at FSG since 1998. 