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The Paris Review No. 99, Spring 1986

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Descartes, Sartre, pornography, and the “new novel”: An interview with Alain Robbe-Grillet.

“I have always been ‘out of the country’ in the sense that I never had what ordinarily is thought of as a literary life, or been part of a literary group”: Karl Shapiro on the Art of Poetry.

Stories by Craig Nova, Bette Pesetsky, and Elizabeth Tallent. Poems by Lincoln Kirstein, N. Scott Momaday, and Karl Shapiro.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Craig Nova, Another Drunk Gambler

Bette Pesetsky, Piers the Imposter

H. G. Sanders, Two Stories

Elizabeth Tallent, Migrants

Interview

Alain Robbe-Grillet, The Art of Fiction No. 91  Full Text

Karl Shapiro, The Art of Poetry No. 36  Full Text

Poetry

Mary Barnard, Song for the Northern Quarter

Ruth Danon, Three Poems

Gavin Ewart, Five Poems

Brad Gooch, Three Poems

Donald Hall, My Friend Felix

Lincoln Kirstein, Five Poems

Jane Miller, Peace Lyric

N. Scott Momaday, Three Poems

Joyce Carol Oates, Four Poems

Toby Olson, Shining Hour

Robert Pack, Clayfeld Renews His Vow

Sarah Plimpton, Three Poems

Karl Shapiro, At Auden's Grave

David Trinidad, Great-Grandmother Smith

Feature

Judi Culbertson, Permanent Parisians

Art

Donald Baechler, Subjects and Objects

Michael Hurson, Two Drawings

Julie Wachtel, Quality of the Instant