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The Paris Review No. 18, Spring 1958

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“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit-detector”: Ernest Hemingway on the myth of his style and pumping the well.

A portfolio of Giacometti sketches. A story by Philip Roth. Poems by Robert Bly, Louis Simpson, and W. D. Snodgrass.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Jack Cope, Kalahari Rose

Philip Roth, The Conversion of the Jews  Full Text

Gordon Woodward, The Night Drivers

Interview

Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction No. 21  Full Text

Poetry

Robert Bly, The Fire of Despair Has Been Our Saviour

George P. Elliott, Chinese Boxes

Robert Huff, The Lay Brother

D.J. Hughes, Lord Chandos to His Wife

Joseph Langland, Hounds

W. S. Merwin, Two Poems

Louis Simpson, Two Poems

W. D. Snodgrass, The Campus on the Hill

William Stafford, Requiem

George Starbuck, And Then, It May Be Saturday

Charles Tomlinson, Three Poems

James Wright, To L., Asleep

Feature

Alberto Giacometti, At the Salon d' Auto

James Lord, Text, Giacometti Portfolio

George Plimpton, Text, Vali Portfolio

Art

Alberto Giacometti, Eight Drawings

Vali, Seven Drawings