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The Paris Review No. 170, Summer 2004

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An Art of Fiction interview with Haruki Murakami. “Even now, my ideal for writing fiction is to put Dostoevsky and Chandler together in one book.”

Paula Fox on art and chaos: ”I think it’s not helpful to overpsychologize. It substitutes for the chaos that most of us live in.”

Stories by Nathaniel Bellows, Melvin Jules Bukiet, and Mary-Beth Hughes. Poems by Sandra McPherson and W. S. Merwin.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Nathaniel Bellows, First Four Measures

Rick DeMarinis, Why the Tears, Miss Earhart?

Mary-Beth Hughes, Pelican Song

Ignacio Padilla, The Furies of Menlo Park

Interview

Paula Fox, The Art of Fiction No. 181  Full Text

Haruki Murakami, The Art of Fiction No. 182  Full Text

Poetry

Spring Melody Berman, Two Poems

Murray Bodo, St. Francis and the Damietta Prostitute

Billy Collins, Freud

Stefania Heim, Roccasicura

Colette Inez, Como Pantoum

David Kirby, The Laughter of Pigs

Sandra McPherson, Officer and Gentleman and a Small Heroic Order

W. S. Merwin, Two Poems

Gary Mitchner, Two Poems

Kathleen Peirce, Datura

Danielle Pieratti, Five Poems

Luigi Pirandello, Two Poems

James Richardson, All the Ghosts

Stephen Sandy, State Farm Insurance

Craig Morgan Teicher, Two Poems

Meredith Trede, During the Reading of the Poem Wherein Billy C Disrobes Emily D

Lauren Wilcox, The Moving-Picture Principle

Feature

Paula Fox, Paris: 1946

Art

Roger Ballen, Shadow Chambers