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The Paris Review No. 126, Spring 1993

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“Had you turned me upside-down and shaken me, the floor would have looked like a military museum after an earthquake”: Mark Helprin on his warlike childhood, buying Grand Central Station, and what it’s like to be “a republican who writes belles lettres.”

Stories by Charles D’Ambrosio, Umberto Eco, and Kenneth Koch. Poems by Tony Sanders and Cynthia Zarin.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Charles D'Ambrosio, Her Real Name

Umberto Eco, The Bible

Kenneth Koch, Achille Dogos

Josip Novakovich, The Burning Shoe

Joy Williams, Marabou

Thomas Wilson, Dominion

Interview

Amy Clampitt, The Art of Poetry No. 45  Full Text

Mark Helprin, The Art of Fiction No. 132  Full Text

Poetry

George Bradley, Two Poems

Henri Cole, Three Poems

James Cummins, Sestina

Jeffery Donaldson, Visions of Marthe Bonnard

Irving Feldman, Interrupted Prayers

Albert Goldbarth, Marriage, and Other Science Fiction

Karl Kirchwey, Three Poems

William Olsen, Two Poems

Siri von Reis, Seven Poems

James Richardson, In Deer Country

Michael J. Rosen, Three Poems

Tony Sanders, The Warning Track

Charlie Smith, Two Poems

Frederick Tibbetts, Remarks on Our City

William Wadsworth, Four Poems

Roger Weingarten, Three Poems

Marc Woodworth, Lovis Corinth at Walchensee

Stephen Yenser, Three Poems

Cynthia Zarin, The Venetian Optician

Feature

Sybille Bedford, An Interview  Full Text

Art

Gary Curtis, Excerpts from Autobiography

Rainier Gross, Without Words: Faces

Sarah Plimpton, Untitled