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The Paris Review asks: who hasn’t survived a tax audit, a snowstorm, a break-up, or presided over a murder?The next addictively clever Paris Review anthology is not a self-help manual; rather it is a wicked elaboration on the human effort to overcome--and instigate--trouble. Throughout... read more

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  1. Stephin Merritt (Introduction) - A Brief Note on Architecture and Interior Design in The Paris Review Book of People with Problems by Magnetic Fields Troubadour Stephin Merritt
  2. Joanna Scott (Author) - A Borderline Case
  3. Annie Proulx (Author) - The Wamsutter Wolf
  4. Ben Okri (Author) - The Dream-Vendor's August
  5. Wells Tower (Author) - The Brown Coast
  6. Julie Orringer (Author) - When She Is Old and I Am Famous
  7. Rick Bass (Author) - The Hermit's Story
  8. James Lasdun (Author) - Snow
  9. Malinda McCollum (Author) - The Fifth Wall
  10. Norman Rush (Author) - Instruments of Seduction
  11. Denis Johnson (Author) - Train Dreams
  12. Mary Robison (Author) - Likely Lake
  13. Charles Baxter (Author) - Westland
  14. Miranda July (Author) - Birthmark
  15. Richard Stern (Author) - Audit
  16. Elizabeth Gilbert (Author) - The Famous Torn and Restored Lit Cigarette Trick
  17. Frederick Busch (Author) - Widow Water
  18. Charlie Smith (Author) - Crystal River

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