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. -----------------  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 o