Deadly Sins by Thomas Pynchon, Mary Gordon, John Updike and more; 1993. Hardcover.

A feast of sinful soliloquies articulating the deadly seven plus one--Despair, the only unforgivable sin--is offered by eight of the best writers of our time including Thomas Pynchon, Mary Gordon, Gore Vidal, Joyce Carol Oates, and John Updike. These pieces first appeared in The New York Review of Books.

Illustrations by Etienne Delessert