Paris Review party art heist

A rare illustration of Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass was pilfered from the Paris Review’s storied headquarters during one of the mag’s lively literary parties. Editor-in-Chief Lorin Stein blasted out after the heist, “Our much-loved Tomi Ungerer drawing of Günter Grass seems to have disappeared from our office during our summer launch party. Information on its whereabouts will be rewarded. Anonymous tips accepted. No questions asked!” The highbrow quarterly has even set up a tips page online. Ungerer is a famed French illustrator of children’s classics. It’s been written of the Paris Review’s wild office parties: “In New York’s esteemed literary world, there are parties, and then there are Paris Review parties. Indeed, as long as the quarterly journal has garnered respect for discovering new writing talent — Jack Kerouac, Adrienne Rich and David Foster Wallace, to name a few — it’s also been known for its all-night, boozeflowing soirees, where society and the counterculture drink from the same bottle of whiskey.”