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The Paris Review No. 125, Winter 1992

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“Walter Kerr once came to my aid by saying, ‘to be or not to be’ is a one-liner. If it’s a dramatic moment no one calls it a one-liner”: Neil Simon on the Art of Theater.

“Jack and Jill: An Exegetical Aria” by John Barth.

Stories by Rick Bass, Barry Lopez, and Paul West. Poems by Jorge Luis Borges, John Hollander, and Charles Wright .

Table of Contents

Fiction

Rick Bass, Platte River

Dan Leone, Spinach

Barry Lopez, The Interior of North Dakota

Paul West, Time Relost by Marcel Proust

Laura Yeager, How to Write a Story

Interview

John Guare, The Art of Theater No. 9  Full Text

Neil Simon, The Art of Theater No. 10  Full Text

Poetry

Susan Abraham, Two Poems

Dick Barnes, Maria Kodama

Molly Bendall, Spring Sale at Bendel's

Jorge Luis Borges, Five Poems

Carl Buchanan, Six Victims

Sarah Getty, Three Poems

Steven Graves, Three Poems

Edward Hirsch, Away from Dogma

John Hollander, Three Poems

Martha Hollander, Two Poems

Andrew Hudgins, Three Poems

T. R. Hummer, Three Poems

Caroline Knox, Three Poems

James Laughlin, Four Poems

Gail Mazur, Two Poems

Gary Mitchner, Four Poems

Pam A. Parker, Three Poems

Robert Phillips, On a Drawing by Glen Baxter

Kenneth Rosen, Durer's Four Witches

Maureen Seaton, Four Poems

Mark Strand, After Our Planet

Charles Wright, Two Poems

Feature

John Barth, Jack and Jill: An Exegetical Aria

Art

John Currin, The Moved Over Lady

Zoe Leonard, Preserved Head of Bearded Woman, Musee Orfila