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The Paris Review No. 178, Fall 2006

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Stephen King on the art of fiction: “They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework.”

Fall poetry folio featuring Billy Collins, Mary Karr, John Drury, and more.

New fiction by Mohsin Hamid: “I was the product of an American university; I was earning a lucrative American salary; I was infatuated with an American woman. So why did part of me desire to see America harmed?”

An encounter with the woman who was JT LeRoy.

Table of Contents

Fiction

György Dragomán, Jump

Mohsin Hamid, Focus on the Fundamentals

Interview

Stephen King, The Art of Fiction No. 189  Full Text

Poetry

Christopher Bakken, Coleridge in Valletta

Peg Boyers, Two Poems

Joel Brouwer, The Fork

Billy Collins, Two Poems

John Drury, The Palaces of Night

Stuart Greenhouse, The Guinea Hen of Manalapan

Mary Karr, Homo Perfectus Immaculately Conceives Himself

Jesse Lichtenstein, Two Poems

James Longenbach, Complaint

John Poch, Two Poems

Ira Sadoff, Two Poems

Aimee Walker, The Error

Memoir

Ivan Bunin, About Chekhov

Sketchbook

Josef Stalin et al., Comrades

Photographs

Jan Baracz, Swimming in Cambodia

Document

Robert Frost, Nature Is a Chaos, Humanity Is a Ruck

Encounter

Nathaniel Rich, Being JT LeRoy