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Apparently, the #CIA and The Paris Review had a secret book club, but someone forgot to bring snacks, and now there's a whole #essay about it. 🤔📚 Meanwhile, the magazine's history reads like a grocery list for pseudo-intellectuals who can't remember their passwords. 😂
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/11/what-really-happened-with-the-cia-and-the-paris-review-a-conversation-with-lance-richardson/ #TheParisReview #SecretBookClub #Humor #Intellectuals #HackerNews #ngated
What Really Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?: A Conversation with Lance Richardson by Dan Piepenbring

November 11, 2025 – “In a funny way, it was really the fact that writing is far too solitudinous an activity that gave us The Paris Review. Along with the CIA, of course.”

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