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The Paris Review No. 3, Autumn 1953

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“For a writer to spend much of his time in the company of authors is, you know, a form of masturbation”: An interview with Graham Greene.

The prophet v. the craftsman: Donald Hall on poetic method.

Stories by Evan S. Connell, Pati Hill, Sue Kaufman, and Donald Windham. Poems by Christopher Logue and George Steiner.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Evan S. Connell, Cocoa Party

Pati Hill, Linda

Sue Kaufman, Tea at Le Gord

Donald Windham, Rome

Interview

Graham Greene, The Art of Fiction No. 3  Full Text

Poetry

George Barker, Epithalamium

Thom Gunn, Three Poems

Robert Layzer, Brownstone

Christopher Logue, A Suite for Jewels

George Steiner, A Modern Highway Links Bathsheba and Sodom

Feature

Donald Hall, Method in Poetic Composition

Eugene Walter, Text, Carzou Portfolio

Art

Carzou, Nine Drawings

Robert Culff, Illustrations

Charlotte Erickson, Illustrations

Fernando Palicio, Illustrations