Press agents shouldn't be the only way to get a Times review Ulises Ramiro The New Yorker accepts unsolicited short story submissions. The New York Times should accept unsolicited press releases for Off- and Off-Off theater. In 1958, The Paris Review pulled an unsolicited short story submission from the slush pile written by a complete unknown named Philip Roth. Philip Roth. (Courtesy NJPAC) There are tons of examples like this, where a great writer gets pulled from the slush