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THE PARIS REVIEW No. 116
Fall 1990
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Fall 1990
“For centuries under slavery, the smile or the grimace on a white man’s face could inform a black person: ‘You’re about to be sold, or flogged.’ So we have studied the white American where the white American has not been obliged to study us”: An interview with Maya Angelou.

Mario Vargas Llosa on the Art of Fiction.

A radio interview with Gertrude Stein.

Stories by Georges Perec and Mona Simpson. Poems by August Kleinzahler, Geoffrey O’Brien, and Luc Sante .


TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERVIEW
Maya Angelou, The Art of Fiction No. 119
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Art of Fiction No. 120

FICTION
Ian McMillan, from Orbit of Darkness
Bradford Morrow, A Bestiary
Georges Perec, from A Man Asleep
Mona Simpson, I Am Here to Tell You It Can Be Done

FEATURE
Seymour Lawrence, Adventures with J. P. Donleavy, or How I Lost My Job and Made My Way to Greater Glory
Gertrude Stein, A Radio Interview

POETRY
John Ashbery, Two Poems
Attilio Bertolucci, Three Poems
David Bottoms, Three Poems
Catherine Bowman, Two Poems
Michael Burkard, But Beautiful
Paul Celan, Two Poems
Maxine Chernoff, Two Poems
Billy Collins, Going Out for Cigarettes
Martin Edmunds, Bella Roma
Ian Ganassi, Primary Process
Suzanne Gardinier, Citizens
August Kleinzahler, Rubble
Hilda Morley, The Barter
Geoffrey O'Brien, Haruspex
Linda Pastan, 1932
James Poolos, To Sleep
Alberto Rios, Mr. Luna and History
Len Roberts, More Walnuts, Late October
Luc Sante, Autobiography
D. P. Skrief, Opened Views
Arthur Sze, Streamers
Alexander Thorburn, The Beach

ART
K.O.S., Studies for Amerika: For the People of Bathgate
Peter Halley, Contents Page: Untitled
Roni Horn, Cover: Thicket No. 2
Tim Rollins, Studies for Amerika: For the People of Bathgate

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