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The Paris Review, Issue 184, Spring 2008
Kazuo Ishiguro on the art of fiction: “I write quite mundane prose. I think where I'm good is between drafts.”
In a recently discovered interview, Leonard Michaels talks about his typewriter: “It was given to me by my first wife. She also once threw it at my head. To help you write, she cried.”
New fiction from J. David Stevens and Tim Winton, and a debut story from Ryan McIlvain.
Spring poetry featuring Dan Chiasson, Katie Ford, and Tomaž Šalamun.
Collages by Louis Armstrong and photographs by Lena Herzog, plus a memoir from Mark Dow.
In a recently discovered interview, Leonard Michaels talks about his typewriter: “It was given to me by my first wife. She also once threw it at my head. To help you write, she cried.”
New fiction from J. David Stevens and Tim Winton, and a debut story from Ryan McIlvain.
Spring poetry featuring Dan Chiasson, Katie Ford, and Tomaž Šalamun.
Collages by Louis Armstrong and photographs by Lena Herzog, plus a memoir from Mark Dow.
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First published March 1, 2008
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About the author
Philip Gourevitch
49 books744 followersGourevitch was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to painter Jacqueline Gourevitch and philosophy professor Victor Gourevitch, a translator of Jean Jacques Rousseau. He and his brother Marc, a physician, spent most of their childhood in Middletown, Connecticut, where their father taught at Wesleyan University from 1967 to 1995. Gourevitch graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Gourevitch knew that he wanted to be a writer by the time he went to college. He attended Cornell University. He took a break for three years in order to concentrate fully on writing. He eventually graduated in 1986. In 1992 he received a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from the Writing Program at Columbia University. Gourevitch went on to publish some short fiction in literary magazines, before turning to non-fiction.
Gourevitch knew that he wanted to be a writer by the time he went to college. He attended Cornell University. He took a break for three years in order to concentrate fully on writing. He eventually graduated in 1986. In 1992 he received a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from the Writing Program at Columbia University. Gourevitch went on to publish some short fiction in literary magazines, before turning to non-fiction.
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July 4, 2010
J. David Stevens' "Box" is one of the more intriguing short stories I've read in my life and Dave Lucas had a great poem in this issue. The rest fell a bit flat for me.
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