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\"208.5-C1\"<\/a>At last! Spring is here, Easter is coming, and, as you can see, the latest issue of The Paris Review<\/em><\/a> has already taken its pastels out of the closet\u2014it\u2019s ready to sally forth into the cherry blossoms. And at its heart are two of our most anticipated interviews.<\/p>\n

First, there\u2019s Cormac McCarthy on the Art of Fiction<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I rise at six and work through the morning, every morning, seven days a week. I find the sun has a forlorn truth before noon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And there\u2019s Thomas Pynchon on his process, his elaborate research for Bleeding Edge<\/em>, and his depiction in the media<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Being called\u00a0paranoid<\/em> seems preferable to any number of things. Especially now, with the degrees of access, the ubiquity of cameras\u2014it\u2019s a position that seems increasingly less, well, paranoid. The word that does bother me is recluse<\/i>. I don\u2019t consider myself reclusive.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Plus, an excerpt from a newly unearthed novel by Roberto Bola\u00f1o<\/a>; fiction by Lydia Davis and Ottessa Moshfegh; poems by Frederick Seidel, Anne Carson, and Dorothea Lasky; an essay by Christian Lorentzen; and a portfolio by Salman Rushdie.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0We humbly assert that it\u2019s one of our strongest issues ever. See for yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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