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The Paris Review No. 134, Spring 1995

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“In 1950, at full literary success, [Cesare Pavese] killed himself in a room at the Hotel Bologna—for mysterious reasons, but then every suicide is mysterious”: Primo Levi on the Art of Fiction.

Eudora Welty on Henry Miller, glass automobiles, and sailboating with Faulkner.

Two Reflections by M. F. K. Fisher. Stories by Tibor Fischer and Helen Schulman. Poems by S. X. Rosenstock and Max Winter.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Tibor Fischer, Top Ten Philosophical Hits

Marcia Guthridge, The Host

Robert Menasse, What Remains

Helen Schulman, The Revisionist

Daniel Stern, The Oven Bird by Robert Frost: A Story

Interview

Ted Hughes, The Art of Poetry No. 71  Full Text

Primo Levi, The Art of Fiction No. 140  Full Text

Poetry

A. R. Ammons, Picking Up Equations

Tom Andrews, Cinema Verite

Rick Barot, Phantasmal Cities

Molly Bendall, The Book of Sharp Silhouettes

Frank Bidart, Three Poems

George Bradley, Two Poems

David Breskin, Two Poems

John Burt, Three Poems

Kevin Cantwell, Two Poems

Billy Collins, Three Poems

Fred Dings, The Evening After

Stephen Dunn, Missing

Jane Flanders, Ma Goose: The Interrogation

Susan Fox, Cro-Magnon

Peter Gizzi, A World Entire

Jody Gladding, Two Poems

Rachel Hadas, Peculiar Sanctity

Robert Hahn, Two Poems

Judith Hall, Hats, A Chiaroscuro Madrigal

Barbara Hamby, Two Poems

Joseph Harrison, Not Playing Possum

Scott Hightower, Two Poems

Vickie Karp, The Juniper Bonsai

Sue Kwock Kim, Women Singing in the Deep Sea

Carolyn Kizer, Halation

James Longenbach, Three Poems

John McKernan, Four Poems

Susan Mitchell, Two Poems

Joan Murray, Augustine Speaks

Jacqueline Osherow, My Cousin Abe, Paul Antschel and Paul Celan

Pam A. Parker, Transgress, Transdress

S. X. Rosenstock, Aubrey Beardsley

Phillip Sterling, Duplicate Scenes of the Earthly Paradise

Daniel Stern, Excommunication

Greg Williamson, Up in the Air

Max Winter, Sixteen Visions of the Immaculate Conception

Linda Stern Zisquit, Two Poems

Feature

M. F. K. Fisher, Two Reflections

Donald Keene, Mishima in 1958

Eudora Welty, Two Encounters

Art

Rhett Arens, Pigeon House

Tony Fitzpatrick, Etchings

Mia Westerlund Roosen, Portfolio and Studio Visit