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THE PARIS REVIEW No. 12
Spring 1956
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Spring 1956
William Faulkner on ruthlessness (“If a writer has to rob his mother he will not hesitate”), his ideal job (“landlord in a brothel”), and the Art of Fiction.

A story by Gina Berriault. Poems by Thom Gunn, John Hollander, and Eugenio Montale.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERVIEW
William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12

FICTION
Gina Berriault, Around the Dear Ruin
Owen Dodson, The Summer Fire
John Langdon, The Blue Serge Suit

FEATURE
Blair Fuller, Text, Jean Jones Portfolio
Pierre Schneider, Text, Octaviano Portfolio
Christopher Wanklyn, Notes from Morocco

POETRY
Stephen Berg, A Natural Death
Philip Booth, Seadog and Seal
Barbara Deming, Song
Rolf Fjelde, Expedition of a Child
Andrea Glaze, St. Jerome
Thom Gunn, Two Poems
John Hollander, Enter Machiavel Waving His Tail
Jenny Joseph, Out of Sight of Land
George Kelly, The Deserted Chapel of the Holy Ghost
Robert Layzer, Cupid Aloft
David Lougee, Her Country Place
W. S. Merwin, The Station
Eugenio Montale, Nuova Stanza
Helen Neville, Sonnet
Stephen Orgel, Fiesole: 1560
James Schevill, The Toad and the Poet
Frederick Will, Three Snow Moods
Harold Witt, Arachne

ART
Octaviano, Portfolio
Stig Claesson, Illustrations
Oliver Harrington, Illustrations
Robert Jefferson, Illustrations
Jean Jones, Portfolio
Tom Keogh, Cover
William Marshall, Illustrations
Shirley Morgan Taylor, Contents Illustration

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