| Description |
xv, 751 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for 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. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- George Plimpton, Introduction -- William Styron, Letter to an Editor -- Heartbreak -- Lorrie Moore, Terrific Mother -- Jonathan Galassi, Elms -- Bernard Cooper, The Fine Art of Sighing -- Heather McHugh, Intensive Care -- Raymond Carver, Careful -- Joseph Brodsky, To Urania -- Madness -- Zelda Fitzgerald, Zelda: A Worksheet -- Malcolm Lowry, Lunar Caustic -- Barbara Hamby, Delirium -- Susan Mitchell, Autobiography -- Bobbie Ann Mason, Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? -- Robert Stone, The Ascent of Mount Carmel -- Sex -- Donald Barthelme, Alice -- S.X. Rosenstock, Rimininny! -- John Updike, Two Cunts in Paris -- William T. Vollmann, The Art of Fiction CLXIII -- Louis Begley, The Art of Fiction CLXXII -- Vladimir Nabokov, The Art of Fiction XL -- Richard Howard, With a Potpourri Down Under -- Anthony Hecht, Le Jet d'Eau -- Rick Moody, The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven -- Toni Morrison, The Art of Fiction CXXXIV -- Margaret Atwood, The Art of Fiction CXXI -- Mordecai Richler, A Liberal Education -- Love -- David Foster Wallace, Little Expressionless Animals -- Rosanna Warren, Cyprian -- Ted Hughes, The Art of Poetry LXXI -- Jeanette Winterson, The Art of Fiction CL -- Edmund White, The Art of Fiction CV -- Kenneth Koch, To the French Language -- Charlie Smith, Los Dos Rancheros -- Michael Cunningham, Pearls -- A.R. Ammons, Everything -- Betrayal -- Lucille Clifton, Lorena -- Marilyn Hacker, Migraine Sonnets -- Jonathan Franzen, Chez Lambert -- Joanna Scott, You Must Relax! -- Beth Gylys, Marriage Song -- Louise Erdrich, The Beet Queen -- Outsiders -- Jonathan Lethem, Tugboat Syndrome -- Truman Capote, The Art of Fiction XVII -- Charles Simic, Against Winter -- Adrienne Rich, Thirty-three -- Jorge Luis Borges, Funes the Memorious -- Alice Munro, Spaceships Have Landed -- Intoxication -- Jay McInerney, It's Six a.m., Do You Know and Where You Are? -- Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson -- Stanley Elkin, The Guest -- William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction XII -- John Irving, The Art of Fiction XCIII -- Hunter S. Thompson, The Art of Journalism I -- William Burroughs, The Art of Fiction XXXVI -- Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries -- Denis Johnson, Car-Crash While Hitchhiking -- War -- Italo Calvino, Last Comes the Raven -- Paul West, Blind White Fish in Belgium -- Primo Levi, The Art of Fiction CXL -- Ezra Pound, The Art of Poetry V -- Kurt Vonnegut, The Art of Fiction LXIV -- Peter Ho Davies, The Ends -- Frank O'Hara, Pearl Harbor -- W.S. Merwin, Conquerer -- Harold Pinter, The Art of Theater III -- Ha Jin, The Dead Soldier's Talk -- John Le Carre, The Art of Fiction CXLIX -- Susan Sontag, The Art of Fiction CXLIII -- Nicholas Christopher, Terminus -- Geoffrey Hill, A Prayer to the Sun -- Whimsy -- Umberto Eco, How to Travel with a Salmon -- Edward Gorey, The Admonitory Hippopotamus: or, Angelica and Sneezby -- Eugene Walter Milking the Moon -- Various, Pomework: An Exercise in Occasional Poetry -- James Merrill and David Jackson, The Plato Club -- Horrors -- Grace Paley, The Little Girl -- Galway Kinnell, Lackawanna -- Ian McEwan, The Art of Fiction CLXXIII -- Joyce Carol Oates, Heat -- Rachel Wetzsteon, Home and Away -- Charles Tomlinson, The Broom: The New Wife's Tale -- Vijay Seshadri, Ailanthus -- Paul Auster, In the Country of Last Things -- God -- Philip Roth, The Conversion of the Jews -- Pattiann Rogers, The Fallacy of Thinking Flesh Is Flesh -- Larry Brown, A Roadside Resurrection -- Robert Bly, The Breath -- Gabriel Garca̕ Marquez, The Saint -- Yusef Komunyakaa, Memory Cave -- Susan Power, Snakes -- Death -- Allen Ginsberg, City Midnight Junk Strains -- Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides -- Billy Collins, Picnic, Lightning -- Seamus Heaney, The Art of Poetry LXXV -- A.S. Byatt, The Art of Fiction CLXVII -- Priscilla Becker, Letter After an Estrangement -- Maile Meloy, Aqua Boulevard -- Robert Pinsky, The Saving -- Thom Gunn, Sacred Heart -- John Montague, Return -- Norman Mailer, A Work in Progress -- Dinner -- Daniel S. Libman, In the Belly of the Cat -- Gary Snyder, Oysters -- Anthony Burgess, The Art of Fiction XLVIII -- Marie Ponsot, Non-Vegetarian -- Jim Crace, The Devil's Larder -- Baseball -- Jim Shepard, Batting Against Castro -- Anne Waldman, Curt Flood -- Donald Hall, The Third Inning -- T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Hector Quesadilla Story -- Travels -- Jack Kerouac, The Mexican Girl -- Robyn Selman, Exodus -- Joel Brouwer, Rostropovich at Checkpoint Charlie, November 11, 1989 -- Anne Carson, TV Men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2) -- Agha Shahid Ali, A History of Paisley -- Barry Lopez, The Interior of North Dakota -- James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction LXXVIII -- Philip Larkin, The Art of Poetry XXX -- V.S. Naipaul, The Art of Fiction CLIV -- Charles D'Ambrosio, Her Real Name -- The Art of Writing -- John Ashbery, Musica Reservata -- J.D. McClatchy, At a Reading -- John Hollander, Making It -- Elizabeth Bishop and May Swenson, Correspondence -- John Cheever, On the Literary Life -- Ian McEwan, The Art of Fiction CLXXIII -- Gabriel Garca̕ Marquez, The Art of Fiction LXIX -- Mario Vargas Llosa, The Art of Fiction CXX -- Tennessee Williams, The Art of Theater V -- Gertrude Stein, A Radio Interview -- Octavio Paz, The Art of Poetry XLII -- E.L. Doctorow, The Art of Fiction XCIV -- Joseph Heller, The Art of Fiction LI -- Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction CXXX -- Chinua Achebe, The Art of Fiction CXXXIX -- Paul Bowles, The Art of Fiction LXVII -- John Updike, The Art of Fiction XLIII -- John Mortimer, The Art of Fiction CVI -- Robert Creeley, The Art of Poetry X -- Thornton Wilder, The Art of Fiction XVI -- Wendy Wasserstein, The Art of Theater XII -- Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction XXI -- James Salter, The Art of Fiction CXXXIII -- Don Delillo, The Art of Fiction CXXXV -- Henry Miller, The Art of Fiction XXVIII -- William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction XII -- Elizabeth Hardwick, The Art of Fiction LXXXVII -- The Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Literature Collections |
| Summary |
"For fifty years, The Paris Review has published writings and interviews from the world's most brillant authors. Here to commemorate its golden anniversary is a 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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Subject |
Literature -- Collections.
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| LC no. |
2003045971 |
| ISBN |
0312422385 |
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