The Paris Review #248 : Summer 2024

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

Mary Robison on the Art of Fiction: “The first thing they’d say was ‘This is a nice story—where’s your novel?’ And I would just lie my head off. ‘Oh, it’s at home. It’s almost there!’”

Elaine Scarry on the Art of Nonfiction: “A lot of my troubles in life have come from taking literally what I should have understood as figurative.”

Prose by Peter Cornell, Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Renee Gladman, Nancy Lemann, Banu Mushtaq, K Patrick, and Anne Serre.

Poetry by Mosab Abu Toha, Diana Garza Islas, Homer, Douglas Kearney, Kim Hyesoon, Masaoka Shiki, Patty Nash, and Jana Prikryl.

Art by Lauren Halsey and G. Peter Jemison.

Cover: Jeremy Frey, Radiance, 2024, black ash, sweetgrass, and synthetic dye, orig dim 22 x 12 in.

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Table of Contents      

Fiction        

Banu Mushtaq - Red Lungi        

Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill - Passengers on the Night Train        

Renee Gladman - My Lesbian Novel        

Anne Serre - That Summer        

Nancy Lemann - The Oyster Diaries        

K Patrick - Blue   

Interview        

Mary Robison - The Art of Fiction No. 263        

Elaine Scarry - The Art of Nonfiction No. 12    

Poetry        

Mosab Abu Toha - My Library        

Diana Garza Islas - from “Section of Adoring Nocturnes”        

Homer - from The Odyssey, Book Five        

Kim Hyesoon - Person Walking Backward        

Douglas Kearney - Apology tour.        

Douglas Kearney - “It’s the bullets what’s silver,        

Patty Nash - Metropolitan        

Jana Prikryl - The Channel        

Masaoka Shiki - from “A Drop of Ink”    

Feature       

Peter Cornell - The Ways of Paradise: Selected Notes from a Lost Manuscript    

Cover        

Jeremy Frey Issue No. 248 Cover    

Art        

Lauren Halsey - emajendat        

G. Peter Jemison - Paper Bags