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\"209\"<\/a>That adorable canine on the cover is Boo, a shaggy brown Brussels griffon and an habitu\u00e9 of our old loft on White Street<\/a>. Boo\u2019s owner (and portraitist) is Raymond Pettibon, whose portfolio, \u201cReal Dogs in Space,\u201d is at the center of issue 209, fit for consumption in the dog days of summer.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s our interview with Joy Williams<\/a>\u2014whose stories have appeared in The Paris Review<\/em> since 1969\u2014on the Art of Fiction:<\/p>\n

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What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibility of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes\u2014which is Wallace Stevens, I think. As a form, the short story is hardly divine, though all excellent art has its mystery, its spiritual rhythm.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And in the Art of Poetry No. 98<\/a>, Henri Cole discusses his approach to clich\u00e9s (\u201cI like the idea of going right up to the edge of clich\u00e9 and then stopping\u201d), his collages, and his contempt for the sentimental:<\/p>\n

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Oh, I hate sentimentality. Heterosexual men are more susceptible to it than women, because middle age keeps telling them they\u2019re gods. This is not true for women, however, who are often discarded. Is it possible that we can more readily see the bleakness of the human condition if life has been a little harder for us? Nothing kills art faster than sentimentality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There\u2019s also an essay by Andrea Barrett; fiction from Zadie Smith, J.\u2009D. Daniels, Garth Greenwell, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Shelly Oria; the third installment of Rachel Cusk\u2019s novel Outline<\/em>, with illustrations by Samantha Hahn; and new poems by Henri Cole, Charles Simic, Ange Mlinko, Nick Laird, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Les Murray, Adam Kirsch, Jane Hirshfield, and Thomas Sayers Ellis.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an issue that, like Boo, commands immediate and frequent affection, and will keep you enthralled for years to come.<\/p>\n

Subscribe now<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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