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The Paris Review No. 71, Fall 1977

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Jessamyn West and Marguerite Young on the Art of Fiction.

Norman Glass on The Decline and Fall of Alfred Chester .

Fiction by Gerald Dorset and Arno Karlen. Poems by David Ignatow, Erica Jong, and David Ray.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Gerald Dorset, Searching for Boga

Arno Karlen, The Lesson

Interview

Jessamyn West, The Art of Fiction No. 67  Full Text

Marguerite Young, The Art of Fiction No. 66  Full Text

Poetry

Sam Abrams, The Laws

Sandra Alcosser, Two Poems

Michael Benedikt, The Badminton at Great Barrington

Billy Collins, Instructions to the Artist

Ann Darr, Two Poems

Dean Faulwell, Dreamboat

Susan Fox, Sceaux the Day They Turn Off the Fountain

Karen Hubert, My Sponge

David Ignatow, A Prayer in Part

David L. James, You Are Made of Glass

Erica Jong, Two Poems

Gregory Kundert, Bananas

Elizabeth Neiditz, That I Was Not Insane, or Worse

Peter Payack, The Barrel and Beyond

Roland Pease, Two Poems

David Ray, Three Poems

Judith C. Root, Two Poems

Mark Rudman, Abilene

Brian Taylor, Three Poems

Robert Walser, Snowdrops

Tom Wayman, Two Poems

Ina Chadwick Wilde, The World Traveler

Feature

Norman Glass, The Decline and Fall of Alfred Chester

Art

Marcia Resnick, Landscape/Loftscape

Document

Joe David Bellamy, A Talking Dog Is No Circus