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Susannah Hunnewell 1966–2019

The Paris Review lost a dear friend when Susannah Hunnewell, the publisher of the magazine, passed away on June 15.

Susannah and I were once invited to a party. We met in the park at sunset and she decided, on a lark, that we should take a horse-drawn carriage. She kept asking the driver to make another turn, go farther uptown, east, then south and back,

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