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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 / by the editors of the Paris review ; with an introduction by George Plimpton.

PN6014 .P234 2003

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Format:: Book
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Literature--Collections.; Literature.
Genre:: Collections.
Physical Description:: xv, 751 pages ; 25 cm
Edition:: First edition.
Place of Publication:: New York : Picador, 2003.
Summary:: For fifty years, the paris review has published writing and interviews from the world's most brilliant authors. Here to commemorate its golden anniversary is a breathtakingly diverse and illuminating anthology, with the greatest writers of the last half-century writing on the greatest subjects. It is a unique collection of stories, poetry, thoughts, and observations on the themes of modern life both great and trivial, as well as a compendium of timeless insights into how and why we embark on the processes of creativity and critical thinking. Like the masterful work of the writers included, the book inspires a dizzying range of thought and emotion, holding a mirror to the world we live in and to the reader's own hopes, dreams, fears, and joy.
Contents:: Heartbreak; Terrific Mother / Lorrie Moore 3; Elms / Jonathan Galassi 32; The Fine Art of Sighing / Bernard Cooper 33; Intensive Care / Heather McHugh 35; Careful / Raymond Carver 37; To Urania / Joseph Brodsky 46; Madness; Zelda: A Worksheet / Zelda Fitzgerald 49; Lunar Caustic / Malcolm Lowry 50; Delirium / Barbara Hamby 54; Autobiography / Susan Mitchell 56; Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? / Bobbie Ann Mason 59; The Ascent of Mount Carmel / Robert Stone 70; Sex; Alice / Donald Barthelme 91; Rimininny! / S.X. Rosenstock 97; Two Cunts in Paris / John Updike 98; The Art of Fiction CLXIII / William T. Vollmann 100; The Art of Fiction CLXXII / Louis Begley 102; The Art of Fiction XL / Vladimir Nabokov 103; With a Potpourri Down Under / Richard Howard 104; Le Jet d'Eau / Anthony Hecht 106; The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven / Rick Moody 108; The Art of Fiction CXXXIV / Toni Morrison 124; The Art of Fiction CXXI / Margaret Atwood 125; A Liberal Education / Mordecai Richler 126; Love; Little Expressionless Animals / David Foster Wallace 137; Cyprian / Rosanna Warren 167; The Art of Poetry LXXI / Ted Hughes 169; The Art of Fiction CL / Jeanette Winterson 171; The Art of Fiction CV / Edmund White 172; To the French Language / Kenneth Koch 173; Los Dos Rancheros / Charlie Smith 175; Pearls / Michael Cunningham 177; Everything / A.R. Ammons 183; Betrayal; Lorena / Lucille Clifton 187; Migraine Sonnets / Marilyn Hacker 188; Chez Lambert / Jonathan Franzen 190; You Must Relax! / Joanna Scott 199; Marriage Song / Beth Gylys 213; The Beet Queen / Louise Erdrich 214; Outsiders; Tugboat Syndrome / Jonathan Lethem 229; The Art of Fiction XVII / Truman Capote 250; Against Winter / Charles Simic 252; Thirty-three / Adrienne Rich 253; Funes the Memorious / Jorge Luis Borges 255; Spaceships Have Landed / Alice Munro 261; Intoxication; It's Six A.M., Do You Know Where You Are? / Jay McInerney 285; Edmund Wilson / Mary McCarthy 292; The Guest / Stanley Elkin 294; The Art of Fiction XII / William Faulkner 319; The Art of Fiction XCIII / John Irving 320; The Art of Journalism I / Hunter S. Thompson 321; The Art of Fiction XXXVI / William Burroughs 323; The Basketball Diaries / Jim Carroll 325; Car-Crash While Hitchhiking / Denis Johnson 327; War; Last Comes the Raven / Italo Calvino 335; Blind White Fish in Belgium / Paul West 340; The Art of Fiction CXL / Primo Levi 354; The Art of Poetry V / Ezra Pound 356; The Art of Fiction LXIV / Kurt Vonnegut 358; The Ends / Peter Ho Davies 359; Pearl Harbor / Frank O'Hara 362; Conquerer / W.S. Merwin 363; The Art of Theater III / Harold Pinter 364; The Dead Soldier's Talk / Ha Jin 365; The Art of Fiction CXLIX / John Le Carre 367; The Art of Fiction CXLIII / Susan Sontag 368; Terminus / Nicholas Christopher 370; A Prayer to the Sun / Geoffrey Hill 373; Whimsy; How to Travel with a Salmon / Umberto Eco 377; The Admonitory Hippopotamus: or, Angelica and Sneezby / Edward Gorey 379; Milking the Moon / Eugene Walter 382; Pomework: An Exercise in Occasional Poetry / Various 385; The Plato Club / James Merrill, David Jackson 411; Horrors; The Little Girl / Grace Paley 421; Lackawanna / Galway Kinnell 426; The Art of Fiction CLXXIII / Ian McEwan 429; Heat / Joyce Carol Oates 430; Home and Away / Rachel Wetzsteon 440; The Broom: The New Wife's Tale / Charles Tomlinson 445; Ailanthus / Vijay Seshadri 446; In the Country of Last Things / Paul Auster 448; God; The Conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth 467; The Fallacy of Thinking Flesh Is Flesh / Pattiann Rogers 480; A Roadside Resurrection / Larry Brown 482; The Breath / Robert Bly 501; The Saint / Gabriel Garcia Marquez 502; Memory Cave / Yusef Komunyakaa 512; Snakes / Susan Power 514; Death; City Midnight Junk Strains / Allen Ginsberg 543; The Virgin Suicides / Jeffrey Eugenides 546; Picnic, Lightning / Billy Collins 561; The Art of Poetry LXXV / Seamus Heaney 563; The Art of Fiction CLXVII / A.S. Byatt 564; Letter After an Estrangement / Priscilla Becker 566; Aqua Boulevard / Maile Meloy 567; The Saving / Robert Pinsky 573; Sacred Heart / Thom Gunn 575; Return / John Montague 577; A Work in Progress / Norman Mailer 578; Dinner; In the Belly of the Cat / Daniel S. Libman 585; Oysters / Gary Snyder 595; The Art of Fiction XLVIII / Anthony Burgess 596; Non-Vegetarian / Marie Ponsot 597; The Devil's Larder / Jim Crace 598; Baseball; Batting Against Castro / Jim Shepard 603; Curt Flood / Anne Waldman 616; The Third Inning / Donald Hall 619; The Hector Quesadilla Story / T. Coraghessan Boyle 622; Travels; The Mexican Girl / Jack Kerouac 635; Exodus / Robyn Selman 652; Rostropovich at Checkpoint Charlie, November 11, 1989 / Joel Brouwer 660; TV Men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2) / Anne Carson 662; A History of Paisley / Agha Shahid Ali 664; The Interior of North Dakota / Barry Lopez 667; The Art of Fiction LXXVIII / James Baldwin 674; The Art of Poetry XXX / Philip Larkin 676; The Art of Fiction CLIV / V.S. Naipaul 677; Her Real Name / Charles D'Ambrosio 679; The Art of Writing; Musica Reservata / John Ashbery 703; At a Reading / J.D. McClatchy 705; Making It / John Hollander 708; Correspondence / Elizabeth Bishop, May Swenson 710; On the Literary Life / John Cheever 715; The Art of Fiction CLXXIII / Ian McEwan 718; The Art of Fiction LXIX / Gabriel Garcia Marquez 719; The Art of Fiction CXX / Mario Vargas Llosa 720; The Art of Theater V / Tennessee Williams 721; A Radio Interview / Gertrude Stein 722; The Art of Poetry XLII / Octavio Paz 723; The Art of Fiction XCIV / E.L. Doctorow 724; The Art of Fiction LI / Joseph Heller 725; The Art of Fiction CXXX / Italo Calvino 726; The Art of Fiction CXXXIX / Chinua Achebe 727; The Art of Fiction LXVII / Paul Bowles 728; The Art of Fiction XLIII / John Updike 729; The Art of Fiction CVI / John Mortimer 730; The Art of Poetry X / Robert Creeley 731; The Art of Fiction XVI / Thornton Wilder 732; The Art of Theater XII / Wendy Wasserstein 733; The Art of Fiction XXI / Ernest Hemingway 734; The Art of Fiction CXXXIII / James Salter 735; The Art of Fiction CXXXV / Don DeLillo 736; The Art of Fiction XXVIII / Henry Miller 737; The Art of Fiction XII / William Faulkner 738; The Art of Fiction LXXXVII / Elizabeth Hardwick 739.
ISBN:: 0312422385
OCLC:: 51900364

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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 / by the editors of the Paris review ; with an introduction by George Plimpton.

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