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THE PARIS REVIEW No. 13
Summer 1956
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Summer 1956
Wit v. wisecrack: Dorothy Parker on the Art of Fiction.

Jean Genet’s “A Thief’s Journal”: “My face is an oval, very pure; my nose is smashed, flattened by a punch in some forgotten fight. The look on my face is blasé, sad and warm, very serious.”

James Blake’s letters from prison.

Stories by Nadine Gordimer and Richard Yates. Poems by Richard Howard and James Wright.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERVIEW
Dorothy Parker, The Art of Fiction No. 13

FICTION
Nadine Gordimer, Face from Atlantis
Anthony Whittier, Gull Pond is a Half-Mile Wide
Richard Yates, A Wrestler With Sharks

FEATURE
James Blake, Letters from an American Prisoner
Blair Fuller, Text, Anita de Caro Portfolio
Jean Genet, from A Thief's Journal

POETRY
Nicolas L.M. Crome, Two Poems
Barbara Deming, Oedipus Recalls Cythaera
David Ferry, Two Poems
Robert Greenwood, In a Cold Climate
Richard Howard, Two Poems
Herbert Morris, A Discipline of Zenith Deep as Life
Richard O'Connell, Annunciation
Robert Pack, An Idyll in Idleness
Marvin Solomon, Belle Grove
James Wright, The Assignation

ART
Avigdor Arikha, Contents Illustration
Anita de Caro, Portfolio
Oliver Harrington, Illustrations
Tom Keogh, Illustrations

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