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The Paris Review No. 153, Winter 1999

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Interviews with Mavis Gallant and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright August Wilson.

Essays in three minutes or less: Russell Banks, Louis Begley, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Robert Olen Butler, William Gass, Oscar Hijuelos, Barbara Kingsolver, Elmore Leonard, Larry McMurtry, Grace Paley, Annie Proulx, Jane Smiley, Robert Stone, and others.

Stories by Bernard Cooper, Andrew Sean Greer, and Melissa Pritchard. Poems by Robert Bly, Nick Flynn, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Bernard Cooper, Old Birds

E. L. Doctorow, City of God

Andrew Sean Greer, Life Is Over There

Ismail Kadaré, The Royal Prayer

David Mitchell, Ghostwritten

Melissa Pritchard, Funktionslust

Thomas Wolfe, O Lost

Interview

Mavis Gallant, The Art of Fiction No. 160  Full Text

August Wilson, The Art of Theater No. 14  Full Text

Poetry

Ansie Baird, Two Poems

Star Black, Cuisine

Robert Bly, Two Poems

Katharine Coles, Rocca Maggiore

Olena Kalytiak Davis, Two Poems

Robert Devlin, Delaware Dumpster

Timothy Donnelly, Three Poems

Nick Flynn, Fragment (found inside my mother)

Jonathan Galassi, The Shock

Sarah Getty, Two Poems

Jennifer Anna Gosetti, Three Poems

Shirley Kaufman, Two Poems

James Longenbach, Undiscovered Country

E. J. McAdams, Three Poems

Molly McQuade, Bondage

Philip Nikolayev, Two Poems

Ned O'Gorman, Dark Secrets, Erotic Words and Glances

Joyce Carol Oates, Wild Bamboo, Late August

Marie Ponsot, Four Poems

Lawrence Raab, The Luminists

Richard Robbins, First Night at Hawthornden Castle

Tony Sanders, Six Poems

Grace Schulman, Two Poems

Ronald Wallace, Two Poems

Susan Wood, Her Father's Coat: Anna Freud, 1982

Feature

Russell Banks, Three Minutes or Less

Reuel K. Wilson, Growing up with Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy

Art

Kim Dingle, Untitled

Luc Tuymans, Couple

Kara Walker, Silhouettes