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The Paris Review No. 85, Fall 1982

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Malcolm Cowley on Hemingway’s ethics, Hart Crane’s fondness for throwing furniture out the window, and a typographical error on Faulkner’s grave.

An Art of Fiction interview with William Maxwell.

A play by Michael McGuire. Stories by Mary Alice Ayers and Allan Gurganus. Poems by Bill Knott and John Peck.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Mary Alice Ayers, Of Sisters

R. Michael Benson, On Dying

T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ike and Nina

Allan Gurganus, Art History (From An Only Modestly Good Translation)

Interview

Malcolm Cowley, The Art of Fiction No. 70  Full Text

William Maxwell, The Art of Fiction No. 71  Full Text

Poetry

Harold Brodkey, Jewlove

Milo De Angelis, Six Poems

Bill Knott, Five Poems

John Peck, from Hours Near the Crossing  Full Text

Reg Saner, Two Poems

David Shapiro, St. Barnabus

Feature

Michael McGuire, Islands (A Play)

Art

Mike Glier, White Male Power

Barbara Kruger, Photographs