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The Paris Review Book: of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, ... Else in the World Since 1953
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Paris Review, T. (2004). The Paris Review Book: of Heartbreak, Madness, Sex, Love, Betrayal, Outsiders, Intoxication, War, Whimsy, Horrors, God, Death, Dinner, Baseball, Travels, ... Else in the World Since 1953. Picador.
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Introduction
by Bill Styron
(missing author)
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xiii
Letter to an Editor
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3
Terrific Mother
by
Lorrie Moore
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Elms
by Jonathan Galassi
(missing author)
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33
The Fine Art of Sighing
by Bernard Cooper
(missing author)
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35
Intensive Care
by Heather McHugh
(missing author)
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37
Careful
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To Urania
by Joseph Brodsky
(missing author)
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49
Zelda: A Worksheet
by Zelda Fitzgerald
(missing author)
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50
Lunar Caustic
by Malcolm Lowry
(missing author)
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0
54
Delirium
by Barbara Hamby
(missing author)
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56
Autobiography
by Susan Mitchell
(missing author)
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0
59
MADNESS:
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
by Bobbie Ann Mason
(missing author)
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0
59
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
by Bobbie Ann Mason
(missing author)
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0
70
The Ascent of Mount Carmel
by Robert Stone
(missing author)
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/
0
91
Alice
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Rimininny!
by S.X. Rosenstock
(missing author)
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98
Two Cunts in Paris
by
John Updike
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/
0
100
102
103
The Art of Fiction XL
by Louis Begley
(missing author)
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/
0
104
With a Potpourri from Down Under
by Richard Howard
(missing author)
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0
106
Le Jet d’Eau
by Anthony Hecht
(missing author)
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/
0
108
SEX:
The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven
by
Rick Moody
an excerpt, starting at section II
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108
The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven
by
Rick Moody
an excerpt, starting at section II
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125
The Art of Fiction CXXI
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A Liberal Education
by Mordecai Richler
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0
137
LOVE:
Little Expressionless Animals
by
David Foster Wallace
—also in
Girl with Curious Hair
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4
137
167
Cyprian
by Rosanna Warren
(missing author)
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0
169
The Art of Poetry LXXI
by Ted Hughes
(missing author)
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0
171
The Art of Fiction CL
by Jeanette Winterson
(missing author)
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0
172
The Art of Fiction CV
by Edmund White
(missing author)
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/
0
173
To the French Language
by Kenneth Koch
(missing author)
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/
0
175
Los Dos Rancheros
by Charlie Smith
(missing author)
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0
177
Pearls
by Michael Cunningham
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0
183
Everything
by A.R. Ammons
(missing author)
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/
1
187
Lorena
by Lucille Clifton
(missing author)
0
/
0
188
Migraine Sonnets
by Marilyn Hacker
(missing author)
0
/
0
190
Chez Lambert
an excerpt from The Corrections
by
Jonathan Franzen
0
/
0
199
You Must Relax!
by Joanna Scott
(missing author)
1
/
0
213
Marriage Song
by Beth Gylys
(missing author)
0
/
0
214
The Beet Queen
by Louise Erdrich
(missing author)
0
/
0
229
Tugboat Syndrome
0 / 0250
The Art of Fiction XVII
Truman Capote interview
(missing author)
0
/
0
252
Against Winter
by Charles Simic
(missing author)
0
/
0
253
Thirty-three
0 / 0255
Funes the Memorious
0 / 0261
Spaceships Have Landed
by
Alice Munro
1
/
0
285
292
Edmund Wilson
an excerpt from Mary McCarthy's "intellectual autobiography"
0
/
0
294
The Guest
by Stanley Elkin
(missing author)
0
/
0
319
The Art of Fiction XII
interview with William Faulkner
(missing author)
0
/
0
320
The Art of Fiction XCIII
interview with John Irving
0
/
1
321
The Art of Journalism I
interview with Hunter S. Thompson
(missing author)
0
/
0
323
The Art of Fiction XXXVI
interview with William Burroughs
(missing author)
0
/
0
325
The Basketball Diaries
an excerpt by Jim Carroll
(missing author)
0
/
0
327
335
Last Comes the Raven
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Blind White Fish in Belgium
by Paul West
(missing author)
0
/
0
354
The Art of Fiction CXL
interview with Primo Levi
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/
0
356
The Art of Poetry V
interview with Ezra Pound
(missing author)
0
/
0
358
The Art of Fiction LXIV
interview
by
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
0
/
0
359
The Ends
by Peter Ho Davies
(missing author)
0
/
0
362
Pearl Harbor
by Frank O'Hara
(missing author)
0
/
0
363
Conquerer
by W.S. Merwin
(missing author)
0
/
0
364
The Art of Theater III
interview with Harold Pinter
(missing author)
0
/
0
365
The Dead Soldier’s Talk
poem by Ha Jin
(missing author)
0
/
0
367
The Art of Fiction CXLIX
by John le Carré
(missing author)
0
/
0
368
The Art of Fiction CXLIII
by
Susan Sontag
0
/
0
370
Terminus
by Nicholas Christopher
0
/
0
373
A Prayer to the Sun
by Geoffrey Hill
(missing author)
0
/
0
377
How to Travel with a Salmon
by
Umberto Eco
0
/
0
379
WHIMSY:
The Admonitory Hippopotamus: or, Angelica and Sneezby
by Edward Gorey
(missing author)
0
/
0
379
The Admonitory Hippopotamus: or, Angelica and Sneezby
by Edward Gorey
(missing author)
0
/
0
382
Milking the Moon
by Eugene Walter
(missing author)
0
/
0
411
The Plato Club
by James Merrill and David Jackson
(missing author)
0
/
0
421
The Little Girl
by
Grace Paley
0
/
0
426
Lackawanna
by Galway Kinnell
(missing author)
0
/
0
429
The Art of Fiction CLXXIII
interview
by
Ian McEwan
0
/
0
430
Heat
by Joyce Carol Oates
(missing author)
0
/
1
440
Home and Away
an excerpt by Rachel Wetzsteon
0
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0
445
The Broom: The New Wife’s Tale
by Charles Tomlinson
0
/
0
446
Ailanthus
by Vijay Seshadri
0
/
0
448
In the Country of Last Things
by Paul Auster
0
/
0
467
The Conversion of the Jews
by
Philip Roth
0
/
0
480
The Fallacy of Thinking Flesh Is Flesh
by Pattiann Rogers
0
/
0
482
A Roadside Resurrection
by Larry Brown
0
/
0
501
The Breath
by Robert Bly
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/
0
502
The Saint
2 / 2512
Memory Cave
by Yusef Komunyakaa
0
/
0
514
Snakes
by Susan Power
(missing author)
0
/
0
543
City Midnight Junk Strains
by Allen Ginsburg
(missing author)
0
/
0
546
The Virgin Suicides
excerpt
by
Jeffrey Eugenides
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/
0
561
Picnic, Lightning
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The Art of Poetry LXXV
0 / 0564
The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye
an excerpt from A.S. Byatt
(missing author)
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/
0
566
Letter After an Estrangement
by Priscilla Becker
(missing author)
0
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1
567
Aqua Boulevard
by Maile Meloy
(missing author)
0
/
0
573
The Saving
by Robert Pinsky
(missing author)
0
/
0
575
Sacred Heart
by Thom Gunn
(missing author)
0
/
0
577
Return
by John Montague
(missing author)
0
/
0
578
A Work in Progress
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In the Belly of the Cat
by Daniel S. Libman
(missing author)
1
/
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595
Oysters
by Gary Snyder
(missing author)
0
/
0
596
The Art of Fiction XLVIII
interview with Anthony Burgess
0
/
0
597
Non-Vegetarian
by Marie Ponsot
(missing author)
0
/
0
598
The Devil’s Larder
by Jim Crace
0
/
0
603
Batting Against Castro
by Jim Shepard
(missing author)
0
/
1
616
Curt Flood
by Anne Waldman
(missing author)
0
/
0
619
The Third Inning
by Donald Hall
(missing author)
1
/
0
622
The Hector Quesadilla Story
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
(missing author)
0
/
1
635
The Mexican Girl
by Jack Kerouac
(missing author)
0
/
0
652
Exodus
by Robyn Selman
(missing author)
0
/
0
660
Rostropovich at Checkpoint Charlie, November 11, 1989
by Joel Brouwer
1
/
0
662
664
A History of Paisley
by Agha Shahid Ali
(missing author)
0
/
0
667
The Interior of North Dakota
by Barry Lopez
(missing author)
0
/
0
674
676
The Art of Poetry XXX
0 / 0677
The Art of Fiction CLIV
interview with V.S. Naipaul
(missing author)
0
/
0
679
Her Real Name
by Charles D'Ambrosio
(missing author)
1
/
0
703
Musica Reservata
by
John Ashbery
0
/
0
705
At a Reading
by J.D. McClatchy
(missing author)
0
/
0
709
Making It
by John Hollander
(missing author)
0
/
0
710
Correspondence
Elizabeth Bishop and May Swenson
0
/
0
715
from On the Literary Life
by
John Cheever
0
/
0
718
The Art of Fiction CLXXIII
by
Ian McEwan
0
/
1
719
720
The Art of Fiction CXX
0 / 1721
The Art of Theater V
0 / 0722
A Radio Interview
interview with Gertrude Stein
(missing author)
0
/
0
723
The Art of Poetry XLII
interview with Octavio Paz
(missing author)
0
/
0
724
The Art of Fiction XCIV
interview with E.L. Doctorow
0
/
0
725
The Art of Fiction LI
interview with Joseph Heller
0
/
0
726
The Art of Fiction CXXX
0 / 0727
The Art of Fiction CXXXIX
interview with Chinua Achebe
0
/
0
728
The Art of Fiction LXVII
interview with Paul Bowles
0
/
0
729
The Art of Fiction XLIII
by
John Updike
0
/
0
730
The Art of Fiction CVI
interview with John Mortimer
0
/
0
731
The Art of Poetry X
interview with Robert Creeley
(missing author)
0
/
0
732
THE ART OF WRITING:
The Art of Fiction XVI
interview with Thornton Wilder
(missing author)
0
/
0
732
The Art of Fiction XVI
interview with Thornton Wilder
(missing author)
0
/
0
733
THE ART OF WRITING:
The Art of Theater XII
interview with Wendy Wasserstein
(missing author)
0
/
0
733
The Art of Theater XII
interview with Wendy Wasserstein
(missing author)
0
/
0
734
The Art of Fiction XXI
0 / 0735
The Art of Fiction CXXXIII
by
James Salter
0
/
0
736
The Art of Fiction CXXXV
by
Don DeLillo
0
/
0
737
The Art of Fiction XXVIII
interview with Henry Miller
0
/
0
738
The Art of Fiction XII
by William Faulkner
0
/
0
739