Lorin Stein

Lorin Stein
Lorin Stein, 2014
Born (1973-04-22) April 22, 1973
Washington, D.C.
Residence New York City
Education Sidwell Friends School
Alma mater Yale University
Johns Hopkins University
Occupation Literary critic, translator
Spouse(s) Sadie Stein

Lorin Hollister Stein (born April 22, 1973) is an American critic, editor, and translator. He was the editor in chief of The Paris Review[1] but resigned in 2017 amid accusations of sexually inappropriate behavior.[2] Under Stein's editorship, The Paris Review won two National Magazine Awards—the first in the category of Essays and Criticism (2011), and the second for General Excellence (2013).[3]

Personal life

Lorin Stein was born and raised in Washington, D.C., where he attended the Sidwell Friends School. He graduated from Yale College in 1995. In 1996 he received an MA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, where he served as a teaching fellow.[4] Stein currently resides in New York City and is married to the writer and editor Sadie Stein,[5] who he had hired to work at the Paris Review in 2011.[6] His sister is the literary agent Anna Stein.[4]

Career

After brief tenures as a contributing editor at Might and Publishers Weekly, Stein was hired by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1998 as an editorial assistant. He was eventually promoted to senior editor.[7] In 2008, FSG published his translation of Grégoire Bouillier's memoir The Mystery Guest.

Stein succeeded Philip Gourevitch as the fourth editor of The Paris Review in April 2010.[1] In 2015 he translated into English the bestselling novel Submission by French author Michel Houellebecq.

Sex scandal and resignation

In October 2017 the Paris Review board started an internal investigation which heard complaints from 'at least two female writers' relating to Stein's unwanted sexual behavior.[8] According to the investigation, Stein regularly complimented women in the office on their appearance and encouraged them to invite attractive friends to work parties. Some women felt that decisions to publish their work was related to their appearance and relationship with Stein. In one case, a woman alleged she had a consensual sexual relationship with Stein, including having sex in his office, but after things started going badly she broke off the relationship. After the breakup, she found that her submissions were being rejected by the magazine, which she felt might be in retaliation. Her agent confirmed she'd been told of the experience as it happened in 2013. Stein strongly denies ever having taken looks or relationship status into consideration when approving stories.[9]

One woman said Stein had touched her at a work dinner in an inappropriate way, including touching her knee several times, sliding his hand up her skirt and touching her underwear. She said she had to request to move to a different seat to get him to stop. A friend and her boyfriend at the time confirmed she had spoken to them about the encounter when it happened.[9]

On December 6, 2017, Stein resigned.[2] In his letter of resignation, he wrote, "I blurred the personal and the professional in ways that were, I now recognize, disrespectful of my colleagues and our contributors, and that made them feel uncomfortable or demeaned."[2] He acknowledged he had abused his position and had several inappropriate relations with subordinates including interns and writers for the magazine. He says he now understands how the "way I behaved was hurtful, degrading and infuriating to a degree that I have only begun to understand this past month." However, he maintains that all sexual relations and contact was consensual.[9]

He also left his editor-at-large role at Farrar Straus & Giroux.[10]

Awards and honors

Books edited by Stein have received the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Believer Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.[11] His reviews of fiction and poetry and his translations from French have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Harper's, The London Review of Books, The New Republic, n+1, and the Salon Guide to Contemporary Fiction.[11] His translation of Edouard Levé's Autoportrait was nominated for the Best Translated Book Award (2013).[12]

Under Stein's editorship, The Paris Review has won two National Magazine Awards—the first in the category of Essays and Criticism (John Jeremiah Sullivan, "Mister Lytle: An Essay," 2011), and the second for General Excellence (2013).[3][13]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 ArtsBeat, The New York Times.
  2. 1 2 3 Alter, Alexandra; Ember, Sydney (6 December 2017). "Paris Review Editor Resigns Amid Inquiry Into His Conduct With Women" – via NYTimes.com.
  3. 1 2 Christine Haughney (May 2, 2013). "New York Receives Top Magazine Prize". The New York Times. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
  4. 1 2 Butterworth, Trevor (August 13, 2010). "Lunch with the FT: Lorin Stein". Financial Times. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  5. ↑ Weddings (July 26, 2015). "Sadie Stein, Lorin Stein". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "Sadie Stein to Join Editorial Staff of 'The Paris Review'". The Paris Review Daily. April 15, 2011. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  7. ↑ Bosman, Julie (February 25, 2011). "Lorin Stein, the Paris Review's New Party Boy". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "Paris Review editor resigns amid inquiry into his conduct with women".
  9. 1 2 3 Alter, Alexandra; Ember, Sydney (2017-12-06). "Paris Review Editor Resigns Amid Inquiry Into His Conduct With Women". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
  10. ↑ "A scandal at The Paris Review shines a light on misconduct at boozy literary soirées".
  11. 1 2 Press Release Archived 2010-07-03 at the Wayback Machine., The Paris Review.
  12. ↑ Chad W. Post (April 10, 2013). "2013 Best Translated Book Award: The Fiction Finalists". Three Percent. Retrieved April 11, 2013.
  13. ↑ Nicole Rudick (May 10, 2011). "The Paris Review Wins National Magazine Award". The Paris Review. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
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