Illustration by Na Kim.
We’re thrilled to announce that The Paris Overview has received the 2024 ASME Award for Fiction, marking the second yr in a row that the journal has obtained the consideration. The three prizewinning tales are Rivers Solomon’s “This Is The whole lot There Will Ever Be,” a disarmingly heat portrait of “simply one other late-forties dyke completely too obsessive about basketball, canine, and memes”; “My Good Pal,” Juliana Leite’s English-language debut, translated from the Portuguese by Zoë Perry, a narrative written within the type of an aged widow’s Sunday-evening diary entry (“Concerning the roof restore, I’ve nothing new to report”) that turns right into a story of principally unstated, mutual decades-long love; and James Lasdun’s “Helen,” wherein a person writing about his dad and mom’ upper-class milieu in seventies London—the time of the IRA’s mainland marketing campaign in Britain—stumbles upon the journals of a household pal, a girl who lives in what the narrator calls a “state of incandescent, virtually non secular horror.” All three tales might be unlocked from behind the paywall this week, and you too can take heed to Rivers Solomon’s story on our podcast right here. Get pleasure from!
