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The Paris Review No. 141, Winter 1996

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Gary Snyder discusses Zen, the environment, and the Art of Poetry.

Helen Vendler on Adrienne Rich, James Merrill, and Shakespeare.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez instructs the next generation of Latin American journalists.

Stories by Eight New Writers: Chris Adrian, Peter Ho Davies, Elizabeth Gilbert, Joyce Hackett, John Hodgman, Michael Knight, Rob Owen, and J. David Stevens. Poems by Agha Shahid Ali and Eric Ormsby.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Chris Adrian, You Can Have It

Peter Ho Davies, Relief

Elizabeth Gilbert, The Famous Torn and Restored Lit Cigarette Trick  Full Text

Joyce Hackett, The Savant

John Hodgman, Ghosting

Michael Knight, Now You See Her

Rob Owen, To The Sea

J. David Stevens, Why I Married the Porn Star

Interview

Gary Snyder, The Art of Poetry No. 74  Full Text

Helen Vendler, The Art of Criticism No. 3  Full Text

Poetry

Alan Ainsworth, Elizabeth Bishop's Novel

Anna Akhmatova, Secrets of the Trade

Agha Shalid Ali, After the August Wedding in Lahore, Pakistan

Scott Cairns, Interval with Erato

Kevin Cantwell, The Wooden Trap

James Cummins, Schindler's List

Jennifer Franklin, Three Poems

Rick Hilles, The Four-legged Man

Richard Lamb, Private Parts

Kate Light, Five Urban Love Songs

Edward Nobles, Architectural Digest

Nick Norwood, My Work with Ludwig II

Eric Ormsby, Mutanabbi Praises the Prince

Mark Scott, Two Poems

Brenda Shaughnessy, Three Poems

Marc Woodworth, Two Poems

Baron Wormser, Shoplifting

Charles Wright, Black Zodiac

Feature

Morgan Entrekin, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question III: On Publishing

Silvana Paternostro, Three Days with Gabo (Gabriel Garcia Marquez feature)

Art

Arturo Cuenca, Untitled

Rochelle Feinstein, Double Dutch

Randolfa Rocha, Word Play