Newsweek has some inside dope on this month's upheaval at The Paris Review, beyond just the announcement of editor Brigid Hughes' departure. As Michael Hastings writes:

One name that has been floated by staffers, sources say, is former New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. Buford would be on a lot of short lists, I m sure, says [board president Thomas H.] Guinzburg. Also being eyed are former American Scholar editor Anne Fadiman, who has won three national magazine awards, and the author John Jeremiah Sullivan.


From soccer hooligans to short fiction to Batali to... longer short fiction. Not a bad career path for Bill.

Furthermore, Buford has the requisite life experience to edit The Paris Review, since Guinzburg is looking for a "grown-up" to run the journal after George Plimpton's death. This surprised one unnamed staffer, who told Newsweek:

The Paris Review has always been run by twenty- and thirty-somethings... And really, George was always a 20-something at heart.


Plimpton died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack in September 2003.
Identity Crisis [Newsweek]
George Plimpton, Urbane and Witty Writer, Dies at 76 [NYT]
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