The Paris review book of heartbreak, madness, sex, love, betrayal, outsiders, intoxication, war, whimsy, horrors, God, death, dinner, baseball, travels, the art of writing, and everything else in the world since 1953
Paris review book
Paris review.
Heartbreak -- Terrific mother / Elms / The fine art of sighing / Intensive care / Careful / To Urania / Madness -- Zelda: a worksheet / Lunar caustic / Delirium / Autobiography / Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? / The ascent of Mount Carmel / Sex -- Alice / Rimininny! / Two cunts in Paris / The art of fiction CLXIII / The art of fiction CLXXII / The art of fiction XL / With a potpourri down under / Le jet d'eau / The ring of brightest angels around heaven / The art of fiction CXXXIV / The art of fiction CXXI / A liberal education / Love -- Little expressionless animals / Cyprian / The art of poetry LXXI / The art of fiction CL / The art of fiction CV / To the French language / Los dos rancheros / Pearls / Everything / Betrayal -- Lorena / Migraine sonnets / Chez Lambert / You must relax! / Marriage song / The Beet Queen / Outsiders -- Tugboat syndrome / The art of fiction XVII / Against winter / Thirty-three / Funes the memorious / Spaceships have landed / Intoxication -- It's six a.m., do you know where you are? / Edmund Wilson / The guest / The art of fiction XII / The art of fiction XCIII / The art of journalism I / The art of fiction XXXVI / The basketball diaries / Car-crash while hitchhiking / War -- Last comes the raven / Blind white fish in Belgium / The art of fiction CXL / The art of poetry V / The art of fiction LXIV / The ends / Pearl Harbor / Conquerer / The art of theater III / The dead soldier's talk / The art of fiction CXLIX / The art of fiction CXLIII / Terminus / A prayer to the sun / Whimsy -- How to travel with a salmon / The admonitory hippopotamus: or, Angelica and Sneezby / Milking the moon / Pomework: an exercise in occasional poetry / The Plato Club / Horrors -- The little girl / Lackawanna / The art of fiction CLXXIII / Heat / Home and away / The broom: the new wife's tale / Ailanthus / In the country of last things
God -- The conversion of the Jews / The fallacy of thinking flesh is flesh / A roadside resurrection / The breath / The saint / Memory cave / Snakes / Death -- City midnight junk strains / The virgin suicides / Picnic, lightning / The art of poetry LXXV / The art of fiction CLXVII / Letter after an estrangement / Aqua Boulevard / The saving / Sacred Heart / Return / A work in progress / Dinner -- In the belly of the cat / Oysters / The art of fiction XLVIII / Non-vegetarian / The Devil's larder / Baseball -- Batting against Castro / Curt Flood / The third inning / The Hector Quesadilla story / Travels -- The Mexican girl / Exodus / Rostropovich at Checkpoint Charlie, November 11, 1989 / TV men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2) / A history of paisley / The interior of North Dakota / The art of fiction LXXVIII / The art of poetry XXX / The art of fiction CLIV / Her real name / The art of writing -- Musica reservata / At a reading / Making it / Correspondence / On the literary life / The art of fiction CLXXIII / The art of fiction / The art of fiction CXX / The art of theater V / A radio interview / The art of poetry XLII / The art of fiction XCIV / The art of fiction LI / The art of fiction CXXX / The art of fiction CXXXIX / The art of fiction LXVII / The art of fiction XLIII / The art of fiction CVI / The art of poetry X / The art of fiction XVI / The art of theater XII / The art of fiction XXI / The art of fiction CXXXIII / The art of fiction CXXXV / The art of fiction XXVIII / The art of fiction XII / The art of fiction LXXXVII
Lorrie Moore -- Jonathan Galassi -- Bernard Cooper -- Heather McHugh -- Raymond Carver -- Joseph Brodsky -- Zelda Fitzgerald -- Malcolm Lowry -- Barbara Hamby -- Susan Mitchell -- Bobbie Ann Mason -- Robert Stone -- Donald Barthelme -- S.X. Rosenstock -- John Updike -- William T. Vollmann -- Louis Begley -- Vladimir Nabokov -- Richard Howard -- Anthony Hecht -- Rick Moody -- Toni Morrison -- Margaret Atwood -- Mordecai Richler -- David Foster Wallace -- Rosanna Warren -- Ted Hughes -- Jeanette Winterson -- Edmund White -- Kenneth Koch -- Charlie Smith -- Michael Cunningham -- A.R. Ammons -- Lucille Clifton -- Marilyn Hacker -- Jonathan Franzen -- Joanna Scott -- Beth Gylys -- Louise Erdrich -- Jonathan Lethem -- Truman Capote -- Charles Simic -- Adrienne Rich -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Alice Munro -- Jay McInerney -- Mary McCarthy -- Stanley Elkin -- William Faulkner -- John Irving -- Hunter S. Thompson -- William Burroughs -- Jim Carroll -- Denis Johnson -- Italo Calvino -- Paul West -- Primo Levi -- Ezra Pound -- Kurt Vonnegut -- Peter Ho Davies -- Frank O'Hara -- W.S. Merwin -- Harold Pinter -- Ha Jin -- John Le Carré -- Susan Sontag -- Nicholas Christopher -- Geoffrey Hill -- Umberto Eco -- Edward Gorey -- Eugene Walter -- Various -- James Merrill and David Jackson -- Grace Paley -- Galway Kinnell -- Ian McEwan -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Rachel Wetzsteon -- Charles Tomlinson -- Vijay Seshadri -- Paul Auster.
Philip Roth -- Pattiann Rogers -- Larry Brown -- Robert Bly -- Gabriel García Márquez -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Susan Power -- Allen Ginsberg -- Jeffrey Eugenides -- Billy Collins -- Seamus Heaney -- A.S. Byatt -- Priscilla Becker -- Maile Meloy -- Robert Pinsky -- Thom Gunn -- John Montague -- Norman Mailer -- Daniel S. Libman -- Gary Snyder -- Anthony Burgess -- Marie Ponsot -- Jim Crace -- Jim Shepard -- Anne Waldman -- Donald Hall -- T. Coraghessan Boyle -- Jack Kerouac -- Robyn Selman -- Joel Brouwer -- Anne Carson -- Agha Shahid Ali -- Barry Lopez -- James Baldwin -- Philip Larkin -- V.S. Naipaul -- Charles D'Ambrosio -- John Ashbery -- J.D. McClatchy -- John Hollander -- Elizabeth Bishop and May Swenson -- John Cheever -- Ian McEwan -- Gabriel García Márquez -- Mario Vargas Llosa -- Tennessee Williams -- Gertrude Stein -- Octavio Paz -- E.L. Doctorow -- Joseph Heller -- Italo Calvino -- Chinua Achebe -- Paul Bowles -- John Updike -- John Mortimer -- Robert Creeley -- Thornton Wilder -- Wendy Wasserstein -- Ernest Hemingway -- James Salter -- Don DeLillo -- Henry Miller -- William Faulkner -- Elizabeth Hardwick.
by the editors of the Paris review ; with an introduction by George Plimpton.
The Paris review book of heartbreak, madness, sex, love, betrayal, outsiders, intoxication, war, whimsy, horrors, God, death, dinner, baseball, travels, the art of writing, and everything else in the world since 1953
