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The Paris Review No. 159, Fall 2001

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Interviews with Booker Prize winner A. S. Byatt and Poet Laureate Billy Collins.

Eugene Walter on Tallulah Bankhead and the Apparition Group.

Stories by Jim Crace, Anthony Doerr, Sheila Kohler, J. David Stevens, and Wells Tower. Poems by Lise Goett, Marilyn Hacker, and Adam Kirsch.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Jim Crace, The Devil's Larder

Anthony Doerr, The Caretaker

Sheila Kohler, Paris by Night

J. David Stevens, Hunger

Interview

A. S. Byatt, The Art of Fiction No. 168  Full Text

Billy Collins, The Art of Poetry No. 83  Full Text

Poetry

Jill Bialosky, The Boy Beheld His Mother's Past

Jessica Grant Bundschuh, The Bees' Passage

Marilyn Chin, The True Story of Mortar and Pestle

Billy Collins, Sartre

Edwin Gallaher, M

Lise Goett, Three Poems

Hèdi Kaddour, Two Poems

David Kirby, The Elephant of the Sea

Richard Lamb, Two Poems

Sarah Lindsay, World Truffle

Simone Muench, In Medias Res

Alan Michael Parker, Driving Past My Exit

Donald Platt, Cloud Atlas

Patty Seyburn, Six Poems

Terese Svoboda, Three Poems

Feature

Eugene Walter, Milking the Moon

Art

Luc Tuymans, Three Series