The Paris Review

Table of Contents

Fiction

Jane Avrich, The Great Flood

Peter Matthiessen, Lost Man's River

Rick Moody, The Mansion on the Hill

Kate Walbert, The Blue Hour

David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men  Full Text

Interview

Seamus Heaney, The Art of Poetry No. 75  Full Text

Robert Pinsky, The Art of Poetry No. 76  Full Text

Poetry

Michael Blumenthal, Falling Asleep at the Erotic Mozi

Anne Babson Carter, A Morning View of Bluehill Village

Brad Davis, Two Poems

Ben Downing, The Calligraphy Shop

Clayton Eshleman, Giverny

Marilyn Hacker, Two Poems

Carol Vanderveer Hamilton, Narcolepsy

Richard Kenney, Venice and Mars

Karl Kirchwey, Syracuse

Kenneth Koch, My Olivetti Speaks

Yusef Komunyakaa, Memory Cave

Timothy Liu, Three Poems

Joanie Mackowski, Waiting

Corey Marks, American Monochrome

Deborah Pease, What Is the Word for Window?

Maura Stanton, The Last Judgment

Terese Svoboda, Old God

Wislawa Szymborska, Negative

John Updike, Two Cunts in Paris

Sidney Wade, Three Poems

David Yezzi, Two Poems

Feature

Aldo Buzzi, A Self-Interview

Elias Canetti, Selected Notes from Hampstead

Art

Pierre Constanca, Contents Illustration

Frank Yamrus, Six Bodies