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The Paris Review No. 193, Summer 2010
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R. Crumb on the art of comics: “I am a bookmaker. I see blank books, I want to fill them—notebooks, sketchbooks, blank pages.”
David Mitchell on the art of fiction: “the universe needs to contrive circumstances to stop me writing.”
New fiction by Geek Love author Katherine Dunn, Colum McCann, Ann Beattie, and more.
Memoir by Wenguang Huang and Victor LaValle, and a dispatch from the North Atlantic by Julia Whitty.
Poems by Jorie Graham, Matthew Zapruder, and Cynthia Zarin.
Plus photographer Jeff Antebi in Haiti; a summer poetry showcase; and more.
Table of Contents
Fiction
Lauren Acampora, Self-Evident
Ann Beattie, Hoodie in Xanadu Full Text
Katherine Dunn, Rhonda Discovers Art
Colum McCann, Aisling
Chaz Reetz-Laiolo, Elk Stalled in Snow
Interview
R. Crumb, The Art of Comics No. 1 Full Text
David Mitchell, The Art of Fiction No. 204 Full Text
Poetry
Peg Boyers, At the Guggenheim Museum, Venice
Ron De Maris, Old Cadillac
Jorie Graham, Three Poems
James Longenbach, Knowledge
Deborah Pease, Sheep in Landscape
Deborah Pease, Self-Portrait in Iceland
Julia Story, Four Poems
Matthew Zapruder, Come On All You Ghosts
Cynthia Zarin, Ada Poems
Memoir
Victor LaValle, The Gospel According to P——
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