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The Paris review book of heartbreak, madness, sex, love, betrayal, outsiders, intoxication, war, whimsy, horrors, God, death, dinner, baseball, travels, the art of writing, and everything else in the world since 1953

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The Paris review book of heartbreak, madness, sex, love, betrayal, outsiders, intoxication, war, whimsy, horrors, God, death, dinner, baseball, travels, the art of writing, and everything else in the world since 1953 / by the editors of the Paris review ; with an introduction by George Plimpton.

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New York : Picador, 2003.

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xv, 751 pages; 25 cm

Summary

An anthology celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the "Paris Review" offers stories, poems, thoughts, and observations by such authors as W.H. Auden, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Ian McEwan.

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Paris review.

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Paris review book

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Contents

Heartbreak -- Terrific mother / Lorrie Moore -- Elms / Jonathan Galassi -- The fine art of sighing / Bernard Cooper -- Intensive care / Heather McHugh -- Careful / Raymond Carver -- To Urania / Joseph Brodsky -- Madness -- Zelda: a worksheet / Zelda Fitzgerald -- Lunar caustic / Malcolm Lowry -- Delirium / Barbara Hamby -- Autobiography / Susan Mitchell -- Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? / Bobbie Ann Mason -- The ascent of Mount Carmel / Robert Stone -- Sex -- Alice / Donald Barthelme -- Rimininny! / S.X. Rosenstock -- Two cunts in Paris / John Updike -- The art of fiction CLXIII / William T. Vollmann -- The art of fiction CLXXII / Louis Begley -- The art of fiction XL / Vladimir Nabokov -- With a potpourri down under / Richard Howard -- Le jet d'eau / Anthony Hecht -- The ring of brightest angels around heaven / Rick Moody -- The art of fiction CXXXIV / Toni Morrison -- The art of fiction CXXI / Margaret Atwood -- A liberal education / Mordecai Richler -- Love -- Little expressionless animals / David Foster Wallace -- Cyprian / Rosanna Warren -- The art of poetry LXXI / Ted Hughes -- The art of fiction CL / Jeanette Winterson -- The art of fiction CV / Edmund White -- To the French language / Kenneth Koch -- Los dos rancheros / Charlie Smith -- Pearls / Michael Cunningham -- Everything / A.R. Ammons -- Betrayal -- Lorena / Lucille Clifton -- Migraine sonnets / Marilyn Hacker -- Chez Lambert / Jonathan Franzen -- You must relax! / Joanna Scott -- Marriage song / Beth Gylys -- The Beet Queen / Louise Erdrich -- Outsiders -- Tugboat syndrome / Jonathan Lethem -- The art of fiction XVII / Truman Capote -- Against winter / Charles Simic -- Thirty-three / Adrienne Rich -- Funes the memorious / Jorge Luis Borges -- Spaceships have landed / Alice Munro -- Intoxication -- It's six a.m., do you know where you are? / Jay McInerney -- Edmund Wilson / Mary McCarthy -- The guest / Stanley Elkin -- The art of fiction XII / William Faulkner -- The art of fiction XCIII / John Irving -- The art of journalism I / Hunter S. Thompson -- The art of fiction XXXVI / William Burroughs -- The basketball diaries / Jim Carroll -- Car-crash while hitchhiking / Denis Johnson -- War -- Last comes the raven / Italo Calvino -- Blind white fish in Belgium / Paul West -- The art of fiction CXL / Primo Levi -- The art of poetry V / Ezra Pound -- The art of fiction LXIV / Kurt Vonnegut -- The ends / Peter Ho Davies -- Pearl Harbor / Frank O'Hara -- Conquerer / W.S. Merwin -- The art of theater III / Harold Pinter -- The dead soldier's talk / Ha Jin -- The art of fiction CXLIX / John Le Carré -- The art of fiction CXLIII / Susan Sontag -- Terminus / Nicholas Christopher -- A prayer to the sun / Geoffrey Hill -- Whimsy -- How to travel with a salmon / Umberto Eco -- The admonitory hippopotamus: or, Angelica and Sneezby / Edward Gorey -- Milking the moon / Eugene Walter -- Pomework: an exercise in occasional poetry / Various -- The Plato Club / James Merrill and David Jackson -- Horrors -- The little girl / Grace Paley -- Lackawanna / Galway Kinnell -- The art of fiction CLXXIII / Ian McEwan -- Heat / Joyce Carol Oates -- Home and away / Rachel Wetzsteon -- The broom: the new wife's tale / Charles Tomlinson -- Ailanthus / Vijay Seshadri -- In the country of last things / Paul Auster.
God -- The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- The fallacy of thinking flesh is flesh / Pattiann Rogers -- A roadside resurrection / Larry Brown -- The breath / Robert Bly -- The saint / Gabriel García Márquez -- Memory cave / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Snakes / Susan Power -- Death -- City midnight junk strains / Allen Ginsberg -- The virgin suicides / Jeffrey Eugenides -- Picnic, lightning / Billy Collins -- The art of poetry LXXV / Seamus Heaney -- The art of fiction CLXVII / A.S. Byatt -- Letter after an estrangement / Priscilla Becker -- Aqua Boulevard / Maile Meloy -- The saving / Robert Pinsky -- Sacred Heart / Thom Gunn -- Return / John Montague -- A work in progress / Norman Mailer -- Dinner -- In the belly of the cat / Daniel S. Libman -- Oysters / Gary Snyder -- The art of fiction XLVIII / Anthony Burgess -- Non-vegetarian / Marie Ponsot -- The Devil's larder / Jim Crace -- Baseball -- Batting against Castro / Jim Shepard -- Curt Flood / Anne Waldman -- The third inning / Donald Hall -- The Hector Quesadilla story / T. Coraghessan Boyle -- Travels -- The Mexican girl / Jack Kerouac -- Exodus / Robyn Selman -- Rostropovich at Checkpoint Charlie, November 11, 1989 / Joel Brouwer -- TV men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2) / Anne Carson -- A history of paisley / Agha Shahid Ali -- The interior of North Dakota / Barry Lopez -- The art of fiction LXXVIII / James Baldwin -- The art of poetry XXX / Philip Larkin -- The art of fiction CLIV / V.S. Naipaul -- Her real name / Charles D'Ambrosio -- The art of writing -- Musica reservata / John Ashbery -- At a reading / J.D. McClatchy -- Making it / John Hollander -- Correspondence / Elizabeth Bishop and May Swenson -- On the literary life / John Cheever -- The art of fiction CLXXIII / Ian McEwan -- The art of fiction / Gabriel García Márquez -- The art of fiction CXX / Mario Vargas Llosa -- The art of theater V / Tennessee Williams -- A radio interview / Gertrude Stein -- The art of poetry XLII / Octavio Paz -- The art of fiction XCIV / E.L. Doctorow -- The art of fiction LI / Joseph Heller -- The art of fiction CXXX / Italo Calvino -- The art of fiction CXXXIX / Chinua Achebe -- The art of fiction LXVII / Paul Bowles -- The art of fiction XLIII / John Updike -- The art of fiction CVI / John Mortimer -- The art of poetry X / Robert Creeley -- The art of fiction XVI / Thornton Wilder -- The art of theater XII / Wendy Wasserstein -- The art of fiction XXI / Ernest Hemingway -- The art of fiction CXXXIII / James Salter -- The art of fiction CXXXV / Don DeLillo -- The art of fiction XXVIII / Henry Miller -- The art of fiction XII / William Faulkner -- The art of fiction LXXXVII / Elizabeth Hardwick.

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