The Paris Review, Issue 191, Winter 2009

About this book

Ha Jin on the Art of Fiction.An interview with Mary Karr: “In memoir, the only through-line is character represented by voice. So you better make a reader damn curious about who’s talking.”Poetry from James Schuyler and Robert Hass.A dispatch from the high plains of eastern Congo by Lieve Joris.New stories by Aimee Bender, Patricio Pron, and Carsten René Nielsen.Plus Benjamin Percy's encounters with the animal world; a folio of photographs by Massimo Vitali; winter poetry by Marianne Boruch, Cathy Park Hong, Dorothea Tanning; and more.