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THE PARIS REVIEW No. 98
Winter 1985
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Winter 1985
“Most biographies are begun out of enchantment or affection; you read a poem and want to find the poet, you hear a statesman and are filled with admiration, or you are stirred by the triumphs of a general or admiral”: Leon Edel on the Art of Biography.

An Art of Fiction interview with Robert Stone.

Stories by M. F. Beal, Allan Gurganus, and Robert Stone. Poems by Jim Carroll, Ann Lauterbach, and Stanley Plumly.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERVIEW
Leon Edel, The Art of Biography No. 1
Robert Stone, The Art of Fiction No. 90

FICTION
M. F. Beal, Veterans
Allan Gurganus, It Had Wings
Robert Stone, The Ascent of Mount Carmel

FEATURE
Leon Edel, Edmund Wilson in the Fifties: La Douceur de la vie

POETRY
Yehuda Amichai, Six Poems
Jim Carroll, from NYC Variations
Killarney Clary, Two Poems
Dick Davis, Ibn Battuta
Michael Hofmann, Five Poems
James Laughlin, Three Poems
Ann Lauterbach, Five Poems
Cynthia Nadelman, Cold Water and a Boy
Stanley Plumly, Against Starlings
Donald Revell, The Gaza of Winter
Vittorio Sereni, The Elm's Disease
Robert B. Shaw, Toll Call
Cynthia Zarin, Colophon

ART
George Condo, Heads
Robert Greene, Actual Size
Andreas Schulze, Cover
Philip Taaffe, Madame Torso in Deep

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