An exciting new anthology from the journal Time magazine called "the biggest 'little magazine' in history." To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the venerable Paris Review, Picador is proud to publish a unique anthology based on the themes of modern life. Like the work of the writers included, this book will inspire a dizzying range of thought and emotion, serving as a cumulative and breathtaking "mirror" to the world we live in.
Author(s): The Paris Review
Publisher: Picador
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 928
Tags: Anthology, The Paris Review, Literary Criticism
Heartbreak --
Terrific mother / Lorrie Moore --
Elms / Jonathan Galassi --
The fine art of sighing / Bernard Cooper --
Intensive care / Heather McHugh --
Careful / Raymond Carver --
To Urania / Joseph Brodsky --
Madness --
Zelda: a worksheet / Zelda Fitzgerald --
Lunar caustic / Malcolm Lowry --
Delirium / Barbara Hamby --
Autobiography / Susan Mitchell --
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? / Bobbie Ann Mason --
The ascent of Mount Carmel / Robert Stone --
Sex --
Alice / Donald Barthelme --
Rimininny! / S.X. Rosenstock --
Two cunts in Paris / John Updike --
The art of fiction CLXIII / William T. Vollmann --
The art of fiction CLXXII / Louis Begley --
The art of fiction XL / Vladimir Nabokov --
With a potpourri down under / Richard Howard --
Le jet d'eau / Anthony Hecht --
The ring of brightest angels around heaven / Rick Moody --
The art of fiction CXXXIV / Toni Morrison --
The art of fiction CXXI / Margaret Atwood --
A liberal education / Mordecai Richler --
Love --
Little expressionless animals / David Foster Wallace --
Cyprian / Rosanna Warren --
The art of poetry LXXI / Ted Hughes --
The art of fiction CL / Jeanette Winterson --
The art of fiction CV / Edmund White --
To the French language / Kenneth Koch --
Los dos rancheros / Charlie Smith --
Pearls / Michael Cunningham --
Everything / A.R. Ammons --
Betrayal --
Lorena / Lucille Clifton --
Migraine sonnets / Marilyn Hacker --
Chez Lambert / Jonathan Franzen --
You must relax! / Joanna Scott --
Marriage song / Beth Gylys --
The Beet Queen / Louise Erdrich --
Outsiders --
Tugboat syndrome / Jonathan Lethem --
The art of fiction XVII / Truman Capote --
Against winter / Charles Simic --
Thirty-three / Adrienne Rich --
Funes the memorious / Jorge Luis Borges --
Spaceships have landed / Alice Munro --
Intoxication --
It's six a.m., do you know where you are? / Jay McInerney --
Edmund Wilson / Mary McCarthy --
The guest / Stanley Elkin --
The art of fiction XII / William Faulkner --
The art of fiction XCIII / John Irving --
The art of journalism I / Hunter S. Thompson --
The art of fiction XXXVI / William Burroughs --
The basketball diaries / Jim Carroll --
Car-crash while hitchhiking / Denis Johnson --
War --
Last comes the raven / Italo Calvino --
Blind white fish in Belgium / Paul West --
The art of fiction CXL / Primo Levi --
The art of poetry V / Ezra Pound --
The art of fiction LXIV / Kurt Vonnegut --
The ends / Peter Ho Davies --
Pearl Harbor / Frank O'Hara --
Conquerer / W.S. Merwin --
The art of theater III / Harold Pinter --
The dead soldier's talk / Ha Jin --
The art of fiction CXLIX / John Le Carré --
The art of fiction CXLIII / Susan Sontag --
Terminus / Nicholas Christopher --
A prayer to the sun / Geoffrey Hill --
Whimsy --
How to travel with a salmon / Umberto Eco --
The admonitory hippopotamus: or, Angelica and Sneezby / Edward Gorey --
Milking the moon / Eugene Walter --
Pomework: an exercise in occasional poetry / Various --
The Plato Club / James Merrill and David Jackson --
Horrors --
The little girl / Grace Paley --
Lackawanna / Galway Kinnell --
The art of fiction CLXXIII / Ian McEwan --
Heat / Joyce Carol Oates --
Home and away / Rachel Wetzsteon --
The broom: the new wife's tale / Charles Tomlinson --
Ailanthus / Vijay Seshadri --
In the country of last things / Paul Auster. God --
The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth --
The fallacy of thinking flesh is flesh / Pattiann Rogers --
A roadside resurrection / Larry Brown --
The breath / Robert Bly --
The saint / Gabriel García Márquez --
Memory cave / Yusef Komunyakaa --
Snakes / Susan Power --
Death --
City midnight junk strains / Allen Ginsberg --
The virgin suicides / Jeffrey Eugenides --
Picnic, lightning / Billy Collins --
The art of poetry LXXV / Seamus Heaney --
The art of fiction CLXVII / A.S. Byatt --
Letter after an estrangement / Priscilla Becker --
Aqua Boulevard / Maile Meloy --
The saving / Robert Pinsky --
Sacred Heart / Thom Gunn --
Return / John Montague --
A work in progress / Norman Mailer --
Dinner --
In the belly of the cat / Daniel S. Libman --
Oysters / Gary Snyder --
The art of fiction XLVIII / Anthony Burgess --
Non-vegetarian / Marie Ponsot --
The Devil's larder / Jim Crace --
Baseball --
Batting against Castro / Jim Shepard --
Curt Flood / Anne Waldman --
The third inning / Donald Hall --
The Hector Quesadilla story / T. Coraghessan Boyle --
Travels --
The Mexican girl / Jack Kerouac --
Exodus / Robyn Selman --
Rostropovich at Checkpoint Charlie, November 11, 1989 / Joel Brouwer --
TV men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2) / Anne Carson --
A history of paisley / Agha Shahid Ali --
The interior of North Dakota / Barry Lopez --
The art of fiction LXXVIII / James Baldwin --
The art of poetry XXX / Philip Larkin --
The art of fiction CLIV / V.S. Naipaul --
Her real name / Charles D'Ambrosio --
The art of writing --
Musica reservata / John Ashbery --
At a reading / J.D. McClatchy --
Making it / John Hollander --
Correspondence / Elizabeth Bishop and May Swenson --
On the literary life / John Cheever --
The art of fiction CLXXIII / Ian McEwan --
The art of fiction / Gabriel García Márquez --
The art of fiction CXX / Mario Vargas Llosa --
The art of theater V / Tennessee Williams --
A radio interview / Gertrude Stein --
The art of poetry XLII / Octavio Paz --
The art of fiction XCIV / E.L. Doctorow --
The art of fiction LI / Joseph Heller --
The art of fiction CXXX / Italo Calvino --
The art of fiction CXXXIX / Chinua Achebe --
The art of fiction LXVII / Paul Bowles --
The art of fiction XLIII / John Updike --
The art of fiction CVI / John Mortimer --
The art of poetry X / Robert Creeley --
The art of fiction XVI / Thornton Wilder --
The art of theater XII / Wendy Wasserstein --
The art of fiction XXI / Ernest Hemingway --
The art of fiction CXXXIII / James Salter --
The art of fiction CXXXV / Don DeLillo --
The art of fiction XXVIII / Henry Miller --
The art of fiction XII / William Faulkner --
The art of fiction LXXXVII / Elizabeth Hardwick.
