Revan Schendler

Revan Schendler was an assistant editor at The New York Review from 1989 to 1991. Two of her poems have appeared in its pages. She lives, writes, and teaches in western Massachusetts.

Rude Mechanicals

I was sleeping on a friend’s floor in New Orleans, running from a heavy heart, when Barbara Epstein offered me a job as assistant editor. It was the spring of 1989; I was twenty-four.

January 26, 2013

Second Growth

February 28, 2002 issue

Brown Leaves

May 23, 1996 issue

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