Did discussion of The Paris Review un-acceptance business get a bit too feverish last week on the internet? Perhaps. Daniel Nester—who brought the story to light—has a run-down of much of the online conversation, as well as a new email from Paris Review editor Lorin Stein (not to Nester) apologizing for the handling of the situation and promising to give the poets, along with a personal apology, “the full fee that we owe them.” Sounds like the perfect solution.

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