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The Paris Review No. 160, Winter 2001

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The Hollywood novelist: Kurt Vonnegut interviews Budd Schulberg on the Art of Fiction and his life in the movies.

Luisa Valenzuela on Borges, politics in literature, and a migratory writing life.

Stories by Karl Iagnemma, Christoph Keller, and the 2001 Discovery Prize winner John Barlow. Poems by Bryan D. Dietrich and David Wojahn.

Table of Contents

Fiction

John Barlow, Eating Mammals

Karl Iagnemma, The Confessional Approach

Christoph Keller, So, Sweetie, What's Your Wilhelm Been Up To?

Interview

Budd Schulberg, The Art of Fiction No. 169  Full Text

Luisa Valenzuela, The Art of Fiction No. 170  Full Text

Poetry

Sarah Arvio, Hats

Sarah Arvio, A Leaf

Neil Azevedo, Four Poems

Tom McKinley Ball, News from the Interior

William Benton, Two Poems

Geoffrey Brock, Telephone

Scott Cairns, Three Poems

Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Circus Fire, 1944

Brad Davis, Two Poems

Bryan D. Dietrich, The Model

Jeff Dolven, Two Poems

Gregory Donovan, Living with Falstaff at the Boar's Head

Daniel Mark Epstein, The Genie

Angie Estes, Trompe L'Oeil

Elizabeth Grainger, On the Invention of Braille

T. R. Hummer, Nietzsche in Bed: A Translation

Tom King, Two Poems

Caroline Knox, Phoebe

Frank Lima, Three Poems

April Lindner, The Rubin Vase

Sam Magavern, Two Poems

Jane Mayhall, Three Poems

Natasha Sajè, Wonders of the Invisible World

Jennifer Liberts Weinberg, Three Poems

Michael White, Three Poems

David Wojahn, Days of 1994

Feature

Budd Schulberg, The Hollywood Years

Roger Shattuck, Ockham's Razor and Proust's Beard

Art

Philip Akkerman, Self-Portraits