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The Paris Review No. 63, Fall 1975

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“Once you’ve survived Dublin there’s not much they can do to you anywhere else to cut through your hide”: An interview with J.P. Donleavy.

John Steinbeck on inspiration, hack writing, and writing a good short story.

Stories by Andrei Codrescu and Dallas Wiebe. Poems by Robert Bly and Wililam Matthews.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Andrei Codrescu, Monsieur Teste in America

James Corpora, Tortoise and Hare

Ray Russell, The Smiling Mandarin

Dallas Wiebe, "'M'"

Interview

J. P. Donleavy, The Art of Fiction No. 53  Full Text

John Steinbeck, The Art of Fiction No. 45 (Continued)  Full Text

Poetry

James Bertolino, Around the Blue Spruce

Robert Bly, Two Poems

George Bogin, Calamine Lotion

Edwin Brock, A Formula for Success

Philip Dacey, The Operation

Daniel Mark Epstein, In a Free Country

Jack Galef, The Museum of Modern Art Isn't Hungry

Marc Lecard, Three Poems

David Lehman, The Artful Dodger

William Matthews, Two Poems

John McKernan, Dear Y.

Joseph Papaleo, Picasso at Ninety-One

Ira Sadoff, The Quantification of Desire

P. Schneidre, A Miniature Essay on Perfection

Louis Simpson, Four Poems

Ricardo da Silveira Lobo Sternberg, About the Spell Cast on Men?

James Tate, Five Poems

Charles Webb, Three Poems

Pat Wilson, Three Poems

David Young, Sexual Groans

L. L. Zeiger, Three Poems

Art

Douglas Heubler, A Portfolio

Jonathan Weld, The Sowers