The Paris Review Magazine Summer 1983 No. 88 Raymond Carver No Label VG

The Paris Review Magazine – Summer 1983, No. 88 “Raymond Carver” – No Label, VG

This Summer 1983 issue of The Paris Review, Number 88, features a landmark interview with Raymond Carver (The Art of Fiction LXXVI), along with a fiction contribution from Carver himself titled Careful. Also included is an interview with Nadine Gordimer (The Art of Fiction LXXVII) and standout fiction by Lydia Davis and James McCourt.

This copy is in very good condition, with minor wear on edges and no mailing label. A well-preserved and collectible issue.

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Contents include:

INTERVIEWS

• Raymond Carver – The Art of Fiction LXXVI – p. 192

• Nadine Gordimer – The Art of Fiction LXXVII – p. 82

FEATURE

• Shusha Guppy – Circle of Friends – p. 246

FICTION

• Raymond Carver – Careful – p. 222

• Lydia Davis – Break It Down – p. 239

• James McCourt – Mawdrew Czgowchwz in Dublin – p. 10

• Charlie Smith – Crystal River – p. 128

ART

• Steve Gianakos – Chubby Boys and Chubby Girls – p. 65

POETRY

• Killarney Clary – Five Poems – p. 79

• Alfred Corn –
        Montale: Dora Markus
        Sappho: Prayer to Aphrodite
        Eduard: Shared Nights – p. 61

• Lydia Davis – p. 235

• Robert Fitzgerald – Virgil: The Pyres – p. 63

• Geoffrey Hill – The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy – p. 41

• Howard Nemerov – Two Poems – p. 77

• Molly Peacock – Two Poems – p. 190

• Timothy Steele – Two Poems – p. 197

Artwork Details:

• Frontispiece by William Pène du Bois

• Cover by Judy Pfaff – Untitled, 1983

• Table of Contents Illustration by Nancy Dwyer – Snake Boy, 1982

Notes on Contributors – p. 261