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The Paris Review No. 121, Winter 1991

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Stardom & self-destruction, the essence of Faulkner, and literary life in New York: An interview with Harold Brodkey.

Reynolds Price on the Art of Fiction.

Donald Hall remembers his teachers, Archibald MacLeish, and Yvor Winters.

Stories by Susan Minto and Richard Stern. Poems by Elizabeth Alexander. Poems by Lucy Grealy, Daryl Hine, and Anne Winters.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Bernardine Connelly, Bait and Switch

Susan Minot, House of Women

Richard Stern, Del Plunko Performs

Paul West, Blind White Fish in Belgium

Interview

Harold Brodkey, The Art of Fiction No. 126  Full Text

Reynolds Price, The Art of Fiction No. 127  Full Text

Poetry

Elizabeth Alexander, Two Poems

B. A. St. Andrews, Topography: The Brain Scan

Bruce Bawer, ASPCA

Georgi Belev, The Forest Comes Down at Night

Christopher Benfey, Two Poems

April Bernard, Two Poems

Michael Burkard, Before the Dark

Martin Edmunds, Moon

Jim Elledge, Household Gods

Caroline Finkelstein, Soup of the Evening

Lucy Grealy, Ward 10

Zbigniew Herbert, Four Poems

Daryl Hine, In Place

Roald Hoffmann, Two Poems

Andrew Hudgins, Aunt Mary Jean

William Logan, Bad Dream

Alan Michael Parker, Blackbird Villanelle

Anthony Robbins, Destroyers

Len Roberts, Learning the Planets

Kuroda Saburo, Three Poems

Stephen Sandy, Great Plains Dooryard

Peter Schmitt, Friends with Numbers

Charles Tomlinson, Two Poems

Anne Winters, The First Verse

Feature

Donald Hall, Rocks and Whirlpools: Archibald MacLeish and Yvor Winters

Art

David McDermott, Portraits

Alexis Smith, Rocky Road