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THE PARIS REVIEW No. 115
Summer 1990
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Summer 1990
Iris Murdoch on the Communist Party, literary prototypes, religion without God, and the Art of Fiction.

An interview with Wallace Stegner: “I’ve never seen an Id—and I will run in another direction if I ever do!”

Stories by Padgett Powell , Paul West, and Marianne Wiggins. Poems by Alice Fulton, Ghalib, and Reynolds Price.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERVIEW
Iris Murdoch, The Art of Fiction No. 117
Wallace Stegner, The Art of Fiction No. 118

FICTION
Rick Bass, The Legend of Pig-Eye
Emmanuel Carrere, Channel Crossings
Padgett Powell, Mr. Irony, Mr. Irony Renounces Irony
Paul West, from Portable People
Marianne Wiggins, A Cup of Jo

FEATURE
Lesley Blanch, Notes from the Wilder Shores
W. S. Merwin, The Wake of the Blackfish: A Memoir of George Kirstein

POETRY
Ghalib, Two Ghazals
Tim Dlugos, G-9
Alice Fulton, Two Poems
Andrew Klavan, The Pond
Kenneth Koch, A Time Zone
James Laughlin, Two Poems
Elizabeth Macklin, There is Still Water; What Now
Walter McDonald, Two Poems
Kathleen Norris, A Prayer to Eve
Oskar Pastior, 12 POEMPOEMS
Reynolds Price, A Single Bed, a Backstreet in Venice.
Yannis Ritsos, from Repetitions
J. Allyn Rosser, Two Poems
Robert Saxton, Two Poems
Susan Wheeler, Lasting Influence
Baron Wormser, Two Poems

ART
Jessica Diamond, New Economic Shorthand
Raymond Pettibon, Untitled
Steve Wolfe, Cover

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