The Paris Review1d
On Writing Advice and the People Who Give It
What confuses me so much about those who have prescriptions for how to write is that they assume all humans experience the world the same way.” ...
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A Painter Is Being Beaten: Freud and Kantarovsky
How to stay with this painful stirring? In Freud, the artist always did this best, somehow working at the limit of repression ...
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The Black Venus: For Max Ernst
of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...
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Auden in the Aquarium
It was a hot day in June.
The Paris Review4d
A Room at the Heart of Things
Through the gilt palm fronds of rue Messaline.
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Do Dogs Know What Art Is?
Do dogs know what art is? Oscar is a big, “free-spirited” Lab mix. My husband and I adopted him when he was just a few months ...
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The Jewish Furrier Explains the Search for Beauty
Remember where I came from. Think of a continent of sabled czars. Leave your home. Let exile fill your mouth like the lost language of the child. Understand the reason. A man who would not wear the ...
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The Hawk's Cry in Autumn
Wind from the northwestern quarter is lifting him high above ...
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from The Lightning Feld
Although the land itself is rolling and pitted, the pole tips form a horizontal plane flat enough to support a sheet of glass.
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A Series of Judgments
and the rare song above the snow insane.
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Baking Gingerbread Cake with Laurie Colwin
Colwin was married to Juris Jurjevics, the founder of Soho Press, and both her adult child, RF Jurjevics, and her longtime ...