Well, that prize doesn’t seem like a scam at all.
This issue (from 1965) has a pretty interesting interview with de Beauvoir.
And a portfolio of drawings for statues by Jean Tinguely.
Nice picture of the artist, but where’s OSHA!?
The longest piece in this issue is Jacksongrad by Harry Mathews, which is the first third of the Tlooth novel: “This novel begins in a Russian prison camp at a baseball game featuring the defective Baptists versus the Fideists”. It’s all quite amusing and all, but it feels a bit like sawed-off Pynchon. V was published two years before this, and I wonder whether Mathews read that and went “sure! I can do that!”. But can anybody?
On the other hand: I know nothing.
There’s a bizarre short story by Peter Ellis called A Cat in the Metro. It almost seems like an in-joke of sorts, or a pastiche, or a parody? The language just doesn’t jive. The author notes just go “Peter Ellis is a student at the University of Pennsylvania. This is his first published work.” I can’t find any subsequent work, or find out anything about him, really, but it’s not an uncommon name, and at least two other authors have that name.
The Paris Review #34 (1965) (buy new, buy used, 3.5 on Goodreads)