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The Paris Review No. 158, Spring-Summer 2001

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NEW WRITERS ISSUE

Writers at Work: Interviews on the Art of Fiction with Lorrie Moore and Rick Moody.

Madison Smartt Bell, Michael Cunningham, Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Aleksandar Hemon, Jonathan Lethem, George Saunders, and Joanna Scott on acceptance and rejection.

Stories by Adam Johnson, Ian McGuire, and Maile Meloy. Poems by Monica Ferrell, Dave King, Jeremy Glazier, Thomas Healy, and Richard Matthews.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Suzanne Gardinier, Around Midnight

Adam Johnson, The Canadanaut, Part II

Ian McGuire, The Red Monk

Maile Meloy, Aqua Boulevard

Doug Trevor, St. Francis in Flint

Interview

Rick Moody, The Art of Fiction No. 166  Full Text

Lorrie Moore, The Art of Fiction No. 167  Full Text

Poetry

Priscilla Becker, Three Poems

Eavan Boland, Making Money

Breyten Breytenbach, Two Poems

Tom Disch, Two Poems

Andrew Hudgins, Four Poems

Kenneth Koch, Three Poems

David Lehman, Four Poems

J.V. Mackowski, Two Poems

Cate Marvin, Three Poems

Joyce Carol Oates, Two Poems

Grace Schulman, Repentance of an Art Critic, 1925

Philip Schultz, Prison Doctor

Richard Marx Weinraub, The Crown

Feature

Madison Smartt Bell, The Man in the Back Row Has a Question VII

Jason Cowley, Como Conversazione: The Essay

Monica Ferrell, Seven New Poets

Art

Nancy Friedemann, New Work

Julian LaVerdiere, Six Drawings