“... the emphasis on short stories, poetry and interviews. Styron was around, as were Evan S. Connell, Irwin Shaw and James Baldwin, whom Matthiessen met at a poker game and failed to get a story from for the Paris News Post. Over the years Matthiessen, Humes and Plimpton would vie for credit as to who ‘invented’ the Paris Review. ‘PARIS REVIEW C’EST ...”