Lorin Stein

MobyLives‘ “literary parlor game” (so named by New York Magazine) is over: Lorin Stein, currently an editor at FSG, is taking over the editorship of The Paris Review.

We had previously engaged in two bouts of “irresponsible speculation” over who might get the job, but — despite naming nearly every editor in New York — failed to guess Stein. According to a source at the magazine, one of our guesses came close: Meghan O’Rourke, Slate culture editor and the poetry co-editor of the Paris Review, was a finalist for the job.

Stein, in an interview with the New York Times, said he was thrilled: ““Part of what The Review is for me is not just a place for writers to publish things and for readers to read them, but at its best it can be a gateway drug. My whole life has been in the shadow of that experience.”