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The Paris Review No. 69, Spring 1977

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“There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: ‘The End’”: Kurt Vonnegut on the Art of Fiction.

Stories by William Burroughs, Ed Sanders, and Alan Ziegler. Poems by Frank O’Hara.

Table of Contents

Fiction

T. Coraghessan Boyle, Descent of Man

Don Bredes, Mr. S.

William S. Burroughs, The Valley

David Glines, Mahler

Barbara Milton, In the Shadow of Mountains

Ed Sanders, No Excuses

Alan Ziegler, The Wrong Delivery

Interview

Kurt Vonnegut, The Art of Fiction No. 64  Full Text

Poetry

Phil Boiarski, The Hilarious Beating

Vic Coccimiglio, Moon Child

John J. Elliott, View from the Inside

Nikos Engonopoulos, Four Poems

Richard Grossman, Two Poems

Geof Hewitt, Murdering the New Neighbor's Kid

G. F. Jonke, Five Poems

Márton Kálasz, Legacy

Greg Kosmicki, Three Poems

R. S. Levine, Two Poems

John Logan, The Bridge of Change

Herbert Lovett, How to Abandon Ship

Frank O'Hara, Eight Poems

Gisele Prassinos, A Nice Family

Kenneth Rexroth, Translations of Three Japanese Woman Poets

Rainer Maria Rilke, Three Poems

Dennis Saleh, Chameleon Ranch

Gary Soto, Three Poems

Albert Stainton, When the Movie Theatre Closed

Judit Tóth, Seine Wharves Southeast

Art

Richard Haas, Phantom Buildings