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The Paris Review No. 23, Spring 1960

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“I’m all for sticking pins into Episcopal behinds, and that sort of thing”: Aldous Huxley on acid, Freud, and the Art of Fiction.

A fictional journey at sea by Malcolm Lowry.

A story by Max Steele. Poems by Louis Simpson and William Stafford.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Charles G. Finney, Turtles in the Grass Alas

Max Steele, What to Do Till The Postman Comes

Jan Gerhard Toonder, The Angels Come Too Seldom

Interview

Aldous Huxley, The Art of Fiction No. 24  Full Text

Poetry

Paul Carroll, De Medici Slot Machine

Arthur Freeman, New England Mills

Jenny Joseph, Birthday Poem

Lawrence Lieberman, Men of War

Richard Lyons, Landscape

Moore Moran, Horseman, 5:14

Donald Petersen, Autumn Complaint

Louis Simpson, Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain

William Stafford, What God Used for Eyes Before We Came

W.G. van Keuren, La Señora Norteamericana

Feature

Harvey Breit, Malcolm Lowry

Malcolm Lowry, Through the Panama

Pierre Schneider, Text, Pierre Soulages Portfolio

Art

Roger Barr, Illustration

Hans Beck, Contents Page

Donald Cardwell, Illustration

Pierre Soulages, Seven Drawings

J.F. Ulysse, Illustrations