November 19, 2019 Redux Redux: So Much Loneliness in That Gold By The Paris Review Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by signing up for the Redux newsletter. Isak Dinesen. Illustration by Michael Batterberry, 1956. This week at The Paris Review, our gaze is directed toward the moon. Read on for Isak Dinesen’s Art of Fiction interview, Ottessa Moshfegh’s short story “Dancing in the Moonlight,” and Jorge Luis Borges’s poem “The Moon.” If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not subscribe to The Paris Review and read the entire archive? You’ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door. And don’t forget to subscribe to The Paris Review Podcast—a new episode comes out every Wednesday! Isak Dinesen, The Art of Fiction No. 14 Issue no. 14 (Autumn 1956) DINESEN The amusing thing is, that after the book was published in America, Huntington wrote to Robert Haas praising it, and begging for the address of the author, saying he must have the book for England. He had met me as Baroness Blixen, while Mr. Haas and I had never seen one another. He never connected me with Isak Dinesen. Later he did publish the book in England. INTERVIEWER That’s delightful; it’s like something from one of the tales. DINESEN How lovely to sit here in the open, but we must be going I think. Shall we continue our discussion on Sunday? I should like to see the Etruscan things at the Villa Giulia: we might chat a little then. Oh, look at the moon. Read More
November 12, 2019 Redux Redux: A Cold, Wet November Morning By The Paris Review Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by signing up for the Redux newsletter. Alberto Moravia, 1954. This week at The Paris Review, we’re acknowledging that November has finally arrived. Read on for Alberto Moravia’s Art of Fiction interview, Amparo Dávila’s short story “Moses and Gaspar,” and Paul Jenkins’s poem “November.” If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not subscribe to The Paris Review and read the entire archive? You’ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door. And don’t forget to subscribe to The Paris Review Podcast—a new episode comes out every Wednesday! Alberto Moravia, The Art of Fiction No. 6 Issue no. 6 (Summer 1954) INTERVIEWER May we start at the beginning? ALBERTO MORAVIA At the beginning? INTERVIEWER You were born … MORAVIA Oh. I was born here. I was born in Rome on the twenty-eighth of November, 1907. Read More
November 5, 2019 Redux Redux: More Interesting as a Scorpio By The Paris Review Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by signing up for the Redux newsletter. Margaret Atwood. This week at The Paris Review, we’re looking to the stars and featuring works about or written by Scorpios. Read on for Margaret Atwood’s Art of Fiction interview, Tom Disch’s “The Joycelin Shrager Story,” and Anne Sexton’s poem “The Poet of Ignorance.” If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not subscribe to The Paris Review and read the entire archive? You’ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door. And don’t forget to also subscribe to The Paris Review Podcast—a new episode comes out every Wednesday! Margaret Atwood, The Art of Fiction No. 121 Issue no. 117 (Winter 1990) When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical—one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float. Read More
October 29, 2019 Redux Redux: Pen with Which to Write It All Down By The Paris Review Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by signing up for the Redux newsletter. This week, we’re listening to the first episode of The Paris Review Podcast Season 2! Read on for the pieces featured in the episode: Toni Morrison’s Art of Fiction interview, Mary Terrier’s short story “Guests,” and Alex Dimitrov’s poem “Impermanence.” If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not subscribe to The Paris Review and read the entire archive? You’ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door. And don’t forget to also subscribe to The Paris Review Podcast—a new episode comes out every Wednesday! Toni Morrison, The Art of Fiction No. 134 Issue no. 128 (Fall 1993) Sometimes something that I was having some trouble with falls into place, a word sequence, say, so I’ve written on scraps of paper, in hotels on hotel stationery, in automobiles. If it arrives you know. If you know it really has come, then you have to put it down. Read More
October 22, 2019 Redux Redux: Cold Night of October By The Paris Review Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by signing up for the Redux newsletter. Italo Calvino. This week at The Paris Review, it’s starting to get a little chilly. Read on for Italo Calvino’s Art of Fiction interview, Hiromi Kawakami’s short story “Mogera Wogura,” and Tina Barr’s poem “Twelve Dancing Princesses.” If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not subscribe to The Paris Review and read the entire archive? You’ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door. And make sure to listen to the new trailer for The Paris Review Podcast—Season 2 premieres this Wednesday, October 23! Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 Issue no. 124 (Fall 1992) It can be said about If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler that it could not have existed without a very precise, very articulated structure. I believe I have succeeded in this, which gives me a great satisfaction. Of course, all this kind of effort should not concern the reader at all. The important thing is to enjoy reading my book, independently of the work I have put into it. Read More
October 15, 2019 Redux Redux: What You Usually Find in Novels By The Paris Review Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by signing up for the Redux newsletter. Illustration of E. M. Forster by William Pène du Bois. This week, as always, we’re thinking about the novel. Read on for our very first Art of Fiction interview, with E. M. Forster; a previously unpublished Anton Chekhov short story called “What You Usually Find in Novels”; and Peg Boyers’s poem “Open Letter to Alberto Moravia,” which imagines a missive from Natalia Ginzburg to Moravia. If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not subscribe to The Paris Review and read the entire archive? You’ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door. And make sure to listen to the new trailer for The Paris Review Podcast—Season 2 premieres October 23! E. M. Forster, The Art of Fiction No. 1 Issue no. 1 (Spring 1953) INTERVIEWER While we are on the subject of the planning of novels, has a novel ever taken an unexpected direction? FORSTER Of course, that wonderful thing, a character running away with you—which happens to everyone—that’s happened to me, I’m afraid. Read More