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THE PARIS REVIEW No. 153
Winter 1999
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Winter 1999
Interviews with Mavis Gallant and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright August Wilson.

Essays in three minutes or less: Russell Banks, Louis Begley, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Robert Olen Butler, William Gass, Oscar Hijuelos, Barbara Kingsolver, Elmore Leonard, Larry McMurtry, Grace Paley, Annie Proulx, Jane Smiley, Robert Stone, and others.

Stories by Bernard Cooper, Andrew Sean Greer, and Melissa Pritchard. Poems by Robert Bly, Nick Flynn, and Joyce Carol Oates.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERVIEW
Mavis Gallant, The Art of Fiction No. 160
August Wilson, The Art of Theater No. 14

FICTION
Bernard Cooper, Old Birds
E. L. Doctorow, City of God
Andrew Sean Greer, Life Is Over There
Ismail Kadare, The Royal Prayer
David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
Melissa Pritchard, Funktionslust
Thomas Wolfe, O Lost

FEATURE
Russell Banks, Three Minutes or Less
Louis Begley, Three Minutes or Less
T. Coraghessan Boyle, Three Minutes or Less
Robert Olen Butler, Three Minutes or Less
William Gass, Three Minutes or Less
Kaye Gibbons, Three Minutes or Less
Oscar Hijuelos, Three Minutes or Less
William Kennedy, Three Minutes or Less
Barbara Kingsolver, Three Minutes or Less
Elmore Leonard, Three Minutes or Less
Barry Lopez, Three Minutes or Less
Larry McMurtry, Three Minutes or Less
Grace Paley, Three Minutes or Less
Annie Proulx, Three Minutes or Less
Jane Smiley, Three Minutes or Less
Robert Stone, Three Minutes or Less
William Styron, Three Minutes or Less
Reuel K. Wilson, Growing up with Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy

POETRY
Ansie Baird, Two Poems
Star Black, Cuisine
Robert Bly, Two Poems
Katharine Coles, Rocca Maggiore
Olena Kalytiak Davis, Two Poems
Robert Devlin, Delaware Dumpster
Timothy Donnelly, Three Poems
Nick Flynn, Fragment (found inside my mother)
Jonathan Galassi, The Shock
Sarah Getty, Two Poems
Jennifer Anna Gosetti, Three Poems
Shirley Kaufman, Two Poems
James Longenbach, Undiscovered Country
E. J. McAdams, Three Poems
Molly McQuade, Bondage
Philip Nikolayev, Two Poems
Ned O'Gorman, Dark Secrets, Erotic Words and Glances
Joyce Carol Oates, Wild Bamboo, Late August
Marie Ponsot, Four Poems
Lawrence Raab, The Luminists
Richard Robbins, First Night at Hawthornden Castle
Tony Sanders, Six Poems
Grace Schulman, Two Poems
Ronald Wallace, Two Poems
Susan Wood, Her Father's Coat: Anna Freud, 1982

ART
Kim Dingle, Untitled
Luc Tuymans, Couple
Kara Walker, Silhouettes

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