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The Paris Review No. 156, Fall 2000

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The Art of Journalism: An interview with Hunter S. Thompson and his journal notes from Vietnam.

Gustaw Herling on the Gulag memoir, the Polish underground, and the struggle to maintain literary integrity under the communist regime.

Stories by Rick Bass, Aimee Bender, and Jonathan Safran Foer. Poems by Mary Jo Bang, Carl Dennis, and Julie Sheehan.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Rick Bass, The Cave

Aimee Bender, The Leading Man

Todd Dorman, The Flannigans

Jonathan Safran Foer, About the Typefaces Not Used in This Edition

Rick Moody, The Carnival Tradition

Interview

Gustaw Herling, The Art of Fiction No. 162  Full Text

Hunter S. Thompson, The Art of Journalism No. 1  Full Text

William T. Vollmann, The Art of Fiction No. 163  Full Text

Poetry

David Baker, Forced Bloom

Mary Jo Bang, Three Poems

Stephen Burt, Morningside Park

William Coleman, Four Poems

James Cummins, Three Poems

Christina Davis, Three Poems

Carl Dennis, Window Boxes

Annmarie Drury, Four Poems

Donald Finkel, Two Poems

Gabriel Fried, Dialogue

Benjamin Scott Grossman, Two Poems

Malinda Markham, Two Poems

Dennis O'Driscoll, So Much Depends

Eric Ormsby, Two Poems

Linda Pastan, The Cossacks

Siri von Reis, The Love Suicides at Sonezaki

Lexi Rudnitsky, Dependent Clause

L. J. Schweppe, Five Poems

Julie Sheehan, Three Poems

Katherine Whitcomb, Ars Longa

Terence Winch, Three Poems

C. Dale Young, South Beach

Feature

Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America

Art

Antonio Marquez, God Is Dead

Richard Prince, (no title)