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The Paris Review No. 112, Winter 1989

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“It’s just a matter of persistence—and a certain amount of talent. You can’t do anything without talent, but you can’t do anything without persistence either”: William Kennedy on the Art of Fiction.

A Long Game of Scrabble: Michael Meyer remembers Graham Greene.

Stories by Nicholas Delbanco and Bernard Malamud. Poems by Les Murray and Robert Pinsky.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Nicholas Delbanco, The Writers' Trade

Karen Latuchie, The Nature of Some Things

Bernard Malamud, The Elevator

Francois Maspero, Who's Never Heard of the Circus Trots?

Amor Towles, The Temptations of the Pleasure

Interview

William Kennedy, The Art of Fiction No. 111  Full Text

Josef Skvorecky, The Art of Fiction No. 112  Full Text

Poetry

David Bottoms, Last Nickel Ranch: Plains, Montana

George Bradley, The 4th of July, and

Karen Fish, The Dreams

Amy Gerstler, Three Poems

Albert Goldbarth, Two Poems

Wayne Koestenbaum, A History of Private Life

David Lehman, Two Poems

Les A. Murray, Five Poems

Cynthia Nadelman, I Bought a Camera

Molly Peacock, Two Poems

Georges Perec, Three Epithalamia

Robert Pinsky, Two Poems

Barbara Wuest, Two Poems

Feature

Michael Meyer, A Long Game of Scrabble: A Memoir of Graham Greene

Art

Martin Kippenberger, Untitled

Steve Wolfe, Untitled (Remarks on Colour)