The Paris Review #249 : Fall 2024

Trade paperback.  Hot off the press!!  Prose, poetry, art and interviews to make your brain sing.

Rosmarie Waldrop on the Art of Poetry: “It puzzles me that people say my work is difficult. If you read it, it’s very simple.”

Javier Cercas on the Art of Fiction: “Hell, to me, is a literary party.”

James Schuyler on Frank O’Hara: “I still can see Frank, standing on that street corner outside a pastry shop, holding a neatly tied-up box of God knows what—éclairs, perhaps.”

Prose by Josephine Baker, Caleb Crain, Marlene Morgan, Morgan Thomas, and Fumio Yamamoto.

Poetry by Hannah Arendt, Matt Broaddus, Sara Gilmore, Benjamin Krusling, Mark Leidner, James Richardson, and Margaret Ross.

Art by Ayé Aton and Ron Veasey, and cover by Sterling Ruby.

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Table of Contents      

Fiction        

Fumio Yamamoto -- Naked        

Caleb Crain -- Unit One        

Marlene Morgan -- The Miracle        

Morgan Thomas -- Everything I Haven’t Done    

Interview        

Javier Cercas -- The Art of Fiction No. 264        

Rosmarie Waldrop -- The Art of Poetry No. 117    

Poetry        

Hannah Arendt -- “This was the farewell …”        

Matt Broaddus -- The Answer Is Beef        

Matt Broaddus -- Topos        

Sara Gilmore -- Knowing constraint        

Sara Gilmore -- Mad as only an angel can be        

Benjamin Krusling -- pray for paris        

Mark Leidner -- Business Plan        

Mark Leidner -- Sissy Spacek        

James Richardson -- Any Evening        

Margaret Ross -- Cooperative    

Portfolio        

Ayé Aton -- Afrika        

Ron Veasey -- Portraits    

Nonfiction        

Josephine Baker -- First Tour of the Old World    

Cover        

Sterling Ruby -- Issue No. 249 Cover    

Art        

Simone Leigh -- Paris Review    

Document        

Peter Schjeldahl -- Not Enough about Frank: A Visit with James Schuyler