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The Paris Review No. 4, Winter 1953

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Irwin Shaw on Dick Tracy, the doom-conscious generation, and the Art of Fiction.

A fable by Eugene Walter. Stories by Alfred Chester, James Leo Herlihy, and Terry Southern. Poems by Geoffrey Hill, Vilma Howard, Howard Moss, and John Simon.

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The Paris Review No. 3, Autumn 1953

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“For a writer to spend much of his time in the company of authors is, you know, a form of masturbation”: An interview with Graham Greene.

The prophet v. the craftsman: Donald Hall on poetic method.

Stories by Evan S. Connell, Pati Hill, Sue Kaufman, and Donald Windham. Poems by Christopher Logue and George Steiner.

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The Paris Review No. 2, Summer 1953

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“Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna”: François Mauriac on the Art of Fiction.

Espinouze illustrates six Faulkner stories.

Poems by Richard Eberhart and Richard Wilbur.

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The Paris Review No. 1, Spring 1953

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E. M. Forster on the Art of Fiction. William Styron’s Letter to an Editor. Stories by Peter Matthiessen, Terry Southern, and Eugene Walter. Poems by Robert Bly, Donald Hall, George Steiner.

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