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The Paris Review No. 40, Winter-Spring 1967

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Epic literature, false poets, and why cabs are yellow: An interview with Jorge Luis Borges.

“How old should they be before they smoke marijuana?” John Cage on how to improve the world.

Stories by Frank Conroy, Christina Stead, and M. E. White. Poems by Ted Hughes and Aram Saroyan.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Frank Conroy, Please Don't Take My Sunshine Away  Full Text

Carolyn Gaiser, Differences

Christina Stead, George

M. E. White, A Summer Evening's Wake

Interview

Jorge Luis Borges, The Art of Fiction No. 39  Full Text

Poetry

John Ashbery, Two Poems  Full Text

Ted Berrigan, from The Sonnets

Jon Cott, Swimming

Kenward Elmslie, Two Poems

Ted Greenwald, Bleep

Ted Hughes, Two Poems

Edward Kissam, Accident

Aram Saroyan, from Works

James Schuyler, Two Poems

Lewis Warsh, Dreaming over a Page

Feature

John Cage, Diary: How to Improve the World

Luce Hoctin, Les Halles

Art

Harold Chapman, Les Halles Photographs