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The Paris Review No. 150, Spring 1999

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45th Anniversary Issue.

Peter Matthiessen on the Art of Fiction.

Clinical depression, competing with Norman Mailer, and a nightmare dinner with Ronald Reagan: An interview with William Styron.

Postwar Paris: chronicles of literary life by Norman Mailer, Alice Adams, Art Buchwald, George Plimpton, and James Dickey.

Stories by Daniel S. Libman, Tim Mizelle, and Said Shirazi. Poems by Eliza Griswold Allen, Melanie Rehak, and Rebecca Wolff.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Stephen Clark, The King Will Ride

Daniel S. Libman, In the Belly of the Cat

Peter Matthiessen, Bone by Bone

Tim Mizelle, Washerbaum the Crestfallen

Phoenix Nguyen, Buom

Ron Nyren, The Yearbook

Said Shirazi, The Infiltrator

Interview

Peter Matthiessen, The Art of Fiction No. 157  Full Text

Ned Rorem, The Art of the Diary No. 1  Full Text

William Styron, The Art of Fiction No. 156  Full Text

Poetry

Priscilla Becker, Three Poems

Robert Devlin, Orizaba

Jessica Grant, Two Poems

Eliza Griswold Allen, Three Poems

Vincent Hamilton, Three Poems

Cate Marvin, Two Poems

Robert Phillips, Four Poems

Melanie Rehak, Three Poems

Dabney Stuart, Two Poems

Rebecca Wolff, Two Poems

Feature

Alice Adams, Postwar Paris: Chronicles of Literary Life

Robert Bly, Paris Review Poets from the Fifties

Art

Guy Peellaert, Tristan Tzara