The Paris Review # 141 Winter 1996 [Paperback]

George Plimpton (Author), Peter Matthiessen (Editor), Donald Hall (Editor), Robert Silvers (Editor), Blair Fuller (Editor), Maxine Groffsky (Editor), Jeanne McCulloch (Editor), James Linville (Editor), Daniel Kunitz (Editor), Elizabeth Gaffney (Editor), Andy Bellin (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1997

Table of Contents--Number 144

Interviews

Seamus Heaney--The Art of Poetry LXXV
Robert Pinskey--The Art of Poetry LXXVI

Fiction

Jane Avrich--The Great Flood
Peter Matthiessen--Lost Man's River
Rick Moody--The Mansion on the Hill
Kate Walbert--The Blue Hour
David Foster Wallace--Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Features

Aldo Buzzi--A Self Interview
Elias Canetti--Selected Notes from Hideeous Men

Art

Betsy Rosenwald--WInd
Frank Yamrus--Six Bodies

Poetry

Michael Blumenthal--Falling Asleep at the Erotic Mozi
Anne Babson Carter--A Morning View of Bluehill Village
Brad Davis--Two Poems
Ben Downing--The Calligraphy Shop
Clayton Eshleman--Giverny
Marilyn Hacker--Two Poems
Carol Vanderveer--Narcolepsy
Hamilton
Richard Kenney--Venice and Mars
Karl Kirchwey--Syracuse
Kenneth Koch--My Olivetti Speaks
Yusef Komunyakaa--Memory Cave
Timothy Liu--Three Poems
Joanie Mackowski--Waiting
Corey Marks--American Monochrome
Deborah Pease--What Is the Word for Window?
Maura Stanton--The Last Judgment
Terese Svoboda--Old God
Wislawa Szymborska--Negative
John Updike--Two Cunts in Paris
Sidney Wade--Three Poems
David Yezzi--Two Poems

Notes on Contributors

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 308 pages
• Publisher: Random House Inc (P) (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679773703
• ISBN-13: 978-0679773702
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic read, October 7, 1998

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This review is from: The Paris Review (Paperback)

The Paris Review is the best literary magazine around (even though they've rejected all of my stories). But anyway, the interview and stories are top notch. I love the blend of unknown writers and famous writers. This issue is especially good, for it's a concept issue, "New British Writing." The forum is excellent, with each author asked to give their opinion on, of course, the state of "British" literature. Furthermore, George Plimpton is very inspiring. Just reading an issue wants to make you write better or start your own magazine.

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Purchased for Elizabeth Gilbert's short story but enjoyed all the short stories. Not a big poetry fan but read a bit of that, also. Though I was aware of the Review, I had not had an opportunity to indulge until now. So glad I did.

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