The Paris Review No. 139 Summer 1996

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Camilo José Cela and William F. Buckley, Jr. on the Art of Fiction. A. R. Ammons on the Art of Poetry.

The Tangier Diaries of John Hopkins.

James Lord recalls the reunion of Picasso and Cocteau in the south of France.

Stories by Guy Davenport, Jonathan Franzen, and Ben Sonnenberg. Poems by A. R. Ammons, Carolyn Kizer, and James Laughlin.