The Fall 1985 issue features Mona Simpson (My Hollywood, Anywhere But Here) in her Paris Review debut with the story "You Leave Them."

Also in No. 97: John Hollander in his Art of Poetry interview. An Art of Fiction interview with Thomas McGuane. Jerzy Kosinski's photo album. Stories by Stephen Dixon and William Kittredge. Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Lydia Davis, and Heather McHugh.