Paris Review Book: A Compendium of Fiction, Poetry, Interviews, Essays, Art and more. Book

	Introduction	xiii
	Letter to an Editor	xvii
	Heartbreak
	Terrific Mother	3
	Elms	38
	The Fine Art of Sighing	39
	Intensive Care	41
	Careful	43
	To Urania	54
	Madness
	Zelda: A Worksheet	57
	Lunar Caustic	59
	Delirium	64
	Autobiography	66
	Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?	69
	The Ascent of Mount Carmel	82
	Sex
	Alice	107
	Rimininny!	114
	Two Cunts in Paris	116
	The Art of Fiction CLXIII	118
	The Art of Fiction CLXXII	121
	The Art of Fiction XL	122
	With a Potpourri Down Under	123
	Le Jet d'Eau	125
	The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven	127
	The Art of Fiction CXXXIV	147
	The Art of Fiction CXXI	148
	A Liberal Education	149
	Love
	Little Expressionless Animals	163
	Cyprian	200
	The Art of Poetry LXXI	203
	The Art of Fiction CL	205
	The Art of Fiction CV	207
	To the French Language	209
	Los Dos Rancheros	211
	Pearls	213
	Everything	221
	Betrayal
	Lorena	225
	Migraine Sonnets	226
	Chez Lambert	228
	You Must Relax!	240
	Marriage Song	257
	The Beet Queen	258
	Outsiders
	Tugboat Syndrome	277
	The Art of Fiction XVII	302
	Against Winter	304
	Thirty-three	305
	Funes the Memorious	307
	Spaceships Have Landed	315
	Intoxication
	It's Six A.M., Do You Know Where You Are?	345
	Edmund Wilson	353
	The Guest	355
	The Art of Fiction XII	387
	The Art of Fiction XCIII	388
	The Art of Journalism I	390
	The Art of Fiction XXXVI	392
	The Basketball Diaries	394
	Car-Crash While Hitchhiking	396
	War
	Last Comes the Raven	405
	Blind White Fish in Belgium	411
	The Art of Fiction CXL	428
	The Art of Poetry V	430
	The Art of Fiction LXIV	432
	The Ends	434
	Pearl Harbor	438
	Conquerer	439
	The Art of Theater III	440
	The Dead Soldier's Talk	441
	The Art of Fiction CXLIX	443
	The Art of Fiction CXLIII	445
	Terminus	448
	A Prayer to the Sun	452
	Whimsy
	How to Travel with a Salmon	455
	The Admonitory Hippopotamus: or, Angelica and Sneezby	458
	Milking the Moon	462
	Pomework: An Exercise in Occasional Poetry	466
	The Plato Club	495
	Horrors
	The Little Girl	505
	Lackawanna	511
	The Art of Fiction CLXXIII	514
	Heat	515
	Home and Away	528
	The Broom: The New Wife's Tale	533
	Ailanthus	535
	In the Country of Last Things	537
	God
	The Conversion of the Jews	561
	The Fallacy of Thinking Flesh Is Flesh	577
	A Roadside Resurrection	579
	The Breath	603
	The Saint	604
	Memory Cave	617
	Snakes	619
	Death
	City Midnight Junk Strains	655
	The Virgin Suicides	659
	Picnic, Lightning	678
	The Art of Poetry LXXV	680
	The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye	682
	Letter After an Estrangement	684
	Aqua Boulevard	685
	The Saving	693
	Sacred Heart	695
	Return	697
	A Work in Progress	699
	Dinner
	In the Belly of the Cat	707
	Oysters	720
	The Art of Fiction XLVIII	721
	Non-Vegetarian	722
	The Devil's Larder	723
	Baseball
	Batting Against Castro	729
	Curt Flood	745
	The Third Inning	749
	The Hector Quesadilla Story	752
	Travels
	The Mexican Girl	767
	Exodus	789
	Rostropovich at Checkpoint Charlie, November 11, 1989	798
	TV Men: Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2)	800
	A History of Paisley	802
	The Interior of North Dakota	805
	The Art of Fiction LXXVIII	814
	The Art of Poetry XXX	816
	The Art of Fiction CLIV	817
	Her Real Name	819
	The Art of Writing
	Musica Reservata	849
	At a Reading	852
	Making It	855
	Correspondence	858
	On the Literary Life	864
	The Art of Fiction CLXXIII	868
	The Art of Fiction LXIX	869
	The Art of Fiction CXX	870
	The Art of Theater V	871
	A Radio Interview	872
	The Art of Poetry XLII	873
	The Art of Fiction XCIV	874
	The Art of Fiction LI	876
	The Art of Fiction CXXX	877
	The Art of Fiction CXXXIX	878
	The Art of Fiction LXVII	879
	The Art of Fiction XLIII	880
	The Art of Fiction CVI	881
	The Art of Poetry X	882
	The Art of Fiction XVI	883
	The Art of Theater XII	884
	The Art of Fiction XXI	885
	The Art of Fiction CXXXIII	887
	The Art of Fiction CXXXV	888
	The Art of Fiction XXVIII	889
	The Art of Fiction XII	890
	The Art of Fiction LXXXVII	891
	The Contributors	892
	Acknowledgments	903