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Spring 1985
No. 95: Spring 1985 Sold Out
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Obscene self-confidence and ongoing terror: John Barth on the Art of Fiction.

Great moments in literature reenacted in vitrines designed by Roz Chast: Proust dunks his Madeline cookie, Frost starts a fire at bread loaf, and Arthur Miller refuses to tap dance.

Stories by Louise Erdrich, Allan Gurganus, and Barry Yourgrau. Poems by Yves Bonnefoy and André Breton.


Summer 1985
No. 96: Summer 1985 $20 | Order Now
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Elizabeth Hardwick on fiction as autobiography, Ibsen’s domestic mystery, and life with Robert Lowell.

Janet Flanner’s letters. Stories by Paul Auster, Tess Gallagher, and Rose Tremain. Poems by Rita Dove and James Schuyler.


Fall 1985
No. 97: Fall 1985 $20 | Order Now
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“I don’t take laudanum. I take pains”: John Hollander on the Art of Poetry.

An Art of Fiction interview with Thomas McGuane.

Jerzy Kosinksi's photo album. Stories by Stephen Dixon, William Kittredge, and Mona Simpson. Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Lydia Davis, and Heather McHugh.


Winter 1985
No. 98: Winter 1985 $20 | Order Now
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“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.


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