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The Paris Review No. 176, Spring 2006

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Joan Didion on the art of nonfiction: “I was never a big fan of people who don't leave home. I don't know why. It just seems part of your duty in life.”

New poems by John Ashbery.

New fiction by Alessandro Baricco and Saïd Sayrafiezadeh.

Drawings by Yoshihiro Tatsumi.

The journals of Tennessee Williams.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Alessandro Baricco, Overture to the Twentieth Century

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Most Livable City

Mikhail Zoshchenko, Three Stories

Interview

Joan Didion, The Art of Nonfiction No. 1  Full Text

Poetry

Jonathan Aaron, Anxious Dreams

John Ashbery, Four Poems

Henri Cole, Two Poems

Karl Kirchwey, Spring Poetry

Karl Kirchwey, At Giacometti's Grave

Emily Moore, Five Poems

Mary Ruefle, Two Poems

Sketchbook

Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Graphic Tokyo

Photographs

Larry Towell, After the Storm

Dispatch

Glyn Vincent, In the Sandbox

Document

Tennessee Williams, New Orleans Notebooks

Encounter

Dan Bright, The Prisoner