Preview issue no. 194 at theparisreview.org. Michel Houellebecq on the art of fiction: “It’s not so different from punk rock. You scream but you modulate a little.” And Norman Rush on why he didn’t publish his first book until he was fifty-three. New fiction by Sam Lipsyte, Lydia Davis, and newcomer April Ayers Lawson. An essay by John Jeremiah Sullivan, and a dispatch from Cambridge by J. D. Daniels. Poems by Frederick Seidel, Carol Muske-Dukes, John Tranter, and more. Plus a curated portfolio by Lauren Cornell featuring Tauba Auerbach and Colter Jacobsen.
Preview issue no. 194 at theparisreview.org. Michel Houellebecq on the art of fiction: “It’s not so different from punk rock. You scream but you modulate a little.” And Norman Rush on why he didn’t publish his first book until he was fifty-three. New fiction by Sam Lipsyte, Lydia Davis, and newcomer April Ayers Lawson. An essay by John Jeremiah Sullivan, and a dispatch from Cambridge by J. D. Daniels. Poems by Frederick Seidel, Carol Muske-Dukes, John Tranter, and more. Plus a curated portfolio by Lauren Cornell featuring Tauba Auerbach and Colter Jacobsen.