Paris, Reviewed

February 1, 2018 2:21 PM

In 2013, Patricia Lockwood asked the obvious. A year later, the Paris Review answered, but their verdict felt punfunctory and biased. Finally, five years later, the Paris Review has, through the power of crowd-sourcing, provided a researched and annotated answer: ⭐⭐⭐⭐★.
posted by maryr (9 comments total)

"Hemingway ate here all the time. Hemingway also shot himself.
Draw your own conclusions."

Based on this harsh dis, Paris is burning.
posted by GuyZero at 2:26 PM on February 1, 2018 [10 favorites]

FWIW, the Paris Review did reply to Lockwood immediately, it just took them a year to get around to their initial review of Paris.
posted by maryr at 2:27 PM on February 1, 2018

so is the meta filtered or what
posted by gwint at 2:44 PM on February 1, 2018 [3 favorites]

Wow, this, one "The Best Tweets of All Time" only has 7,158 retweets? Things have changed a bit since 2013.
posted by designbot at 2:54 PM on February 1, 2018 [2 favorites]

"Not worth unless you are into art" is good advice if you are considering visiting the Musée d'Orsay.
posted by cyanistes at 3:08 PM on February 1, 2018 [7 favorites]

"Not worth unless you are into art" is good advice if you are considering visiting the Musée d'Orsay.

To be fair, the building itself is really nice and I once watched the Tour de France from the balcony.
posted by sjswitzer at 3:39 PM on February 1, 2018 [4 favorites]

I remember a now-defunct webcomic called Pictures For Sad Children, in which a guy called Paul dies and becomes a ghost and travels the world to try to cheer himself up. In Paris someone asks him if he’s enjoying himself and Paul answers “This is just another bullshit town”.
posted by um at 9:16 PM on February 1, 2018 [2 favorites]

I remember Pictures for Sad Children! This one always always got me.
posted by whir at 10:25 PM on February 1, 2018

Every fucking city
posted by deadwax at 2:20 AM on February 2, 2018 [1 favorite]