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The Paris Review No. 100, Summer-Fall 1986

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The Art of Fiction: John Irving on the secrets of profligacy, the ills of criticism, and Monday Night Football with John Cheever.

“Don’t you worry I like to be your sharpener and it’s a pleasure”: Gertrude Stein’s letters of encouragement to an aspiring novelist.

Stories by Nadine Gordimer, William Maxwell, Leonard Michaels, Alice Munro, and Marilynne Robinson. Poems by Amy Clampitt, James Dickey, Allen Ginsberg, and Jorie Graham.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Nadine Gordimer, Children with the House to Themselves

William Maxwell, The Lily-White Boys

Leonard Michaels, Jealousy

Alice Munro, Circle of Prayer

Marilynne Robinson, Connie Bronson  Full Text

Interview

John Hersey, The Art of Fiction No. 92  Full Text

John Irving, The Art of Fiction No. 93  Full Text

Poetry

John Ash, The Monuments

Robert Bringhurst, Sunday Morning

Harold Brodkey, On First Being Published

Raymond Carver, Two Poems

Amy Clampitt, Dorothy and William at Rydal Mount

Alfred Corn, Apartment on 22nd St.

Douglas Crase, Theme Park

Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Song for That Man of the People, Charlie Chaplin

James Dickey, Spring-Shock

Tom Disch, MCMLXXXIV

Jonathan Galassi, Lateness

Jim Gauer, Will This Thought Do?

Allen Ginsberg, Quatrains

Jorie Graham, Description

Linda Gregg, Part of Me Wanting Everything to Live

Barbara Guest, The View from Kandinsky's Window

Anthony Hecht, Humoresque

John Hollander, By the Gulf

Richard Howard, Stanzas in Bloomsbury: Mrs. Woolf entertains the notion of a novel about Lord Byron

Lawrence Joseph, London

James Laughlin, A Night at the Opera

David Lehman, Enigma Variations

William Logan, The Imitative Fallacy

Christopher Logue, Walking

James Merrill, A Room at the Heart of Things

Czeslaw Milosz, Lauda

Howard Nemerov, The War in the Air

Sharon Olds, This Hour

Ron Padgett, To Woody Woodpecker

Molly Peacock, A Hot Day in Agrigento

Robert Pinsky, Lament for the Makers

Katha Pollitt, The White Room

Jim Powell, The Beginning of Winter

Liam Rector, Getting Over Cookie

Mark Rudman, The Punch

Sherod Santos, Mothers and Fathers

James Schuyler, Mood Indigo

Frederick Seidel, Morphine

Hugh Seidman, After the Ear Inn After the Snow

Karl Shapiro, At Auden's Grave

Charles Simic, A Series of Fortuitous Circumstances

Gary Snyder, At the White River Roadhouse in the Yukon

Elizabeth Spires, //

Gerald Stern, One Animal's Life

C. K. Williams, Le Petit Salvie

Baron Wormser, 1967

Charles Wright, from A Journal of the Year of the Ox

Franz Wright, To the Hawk

Feature

Philip Galanes, Gertrude Stein: Letters to a Friend

James Laughlin, Walking Around a Water-Butt

Mary McCarthy, Role-Modeling

Ezra Pound, In the Water-Butt

Art

Jonathan Borofsky, Space Head

Llyn Foulkes, Portraits

Alice Neel, Drawings