News at Eleven: Since Mr. [Lorin] Stein began as editor

last April, his office has been a place where publishers and authors drop by at the end of a workday for gossip and a drink, where guests wander in during packed Paris Review soirees and where, not long ago, the employees of a creative marketing firm downstairs gathered for an impromptu late-night party.

"The place was so thick with pot smoke," Mr. Stein recalled giddily. "I thought no one was ever going to leave. Finally, I was like, 'Can someone help me clean up these beer bottles?' And everyone jumped up like little worker ants."

When Mr. Stein marched into the job last year, he came with heavy-duty connections.

from The New York Times: Lorin Stein, the Paris Review's New Party Boy

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