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The Paris Review No. 11, Winter 1955

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“So two of these goofs come by in a cab and we go up North, in a hotel, out, got nine bucks, up and down, around a corner, ducking up and down, then back to Rich, the poor son of a bitch, he come out and he was bawling”: An interview with Nelson Algren.

Jack Kerouac’s On the Road.

Poems by John Hollander, Christopher Logue, and Louis Simpson.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Marjorie Anais Housepian, How Levon Dai Was Surrendered to the Edemuses

Jack Kerouac, The Mexican Girl

Gerard Kornelis Van Het Reve, Gossamer

Interview

Nelson Algren, The Art of Fiction No. 11  Full Text

Poetry

Rolf Fjelde, On Their Roundness

John Haislip, Blue Fruit

John Hollander, The Fable of the Bears in Winter

Christopher Logue, In Widdershin

W. S. Merwin, Sow

Louis Simpson, Orpheus in the Underworld

Feature

Eugene Walter, Text, Oskar Kokoschka Portfolio, Antoni Clave Portfolio

Art

Antoni Clave, Six Drawings

Albert Eisenlau, Illustrations

Oskar Kokoschka, Six Early Portraits

James Wines, Illustrations