{"id":118574,"date":"2017-11-28T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=118574"},"modified":"2017-11-28T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:19:41","slug":"redux-james-baldwin-raymond-carver-dorothea-lasky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/28\/redux-james-baldwin-raymond-carver-dorothea-lasky\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: James Baldwin, Raymond Carver, Dorothea Lasky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked\u00a0pieces delivered straight to your inbox every\u00a0Sunday by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfnx3y2sMXUtu-ZwAQeTN1iAYh_S21I2df71FY0mU5GxosjAw\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/james_baldwin_37_allan_warren-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-118577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/james_baldwin_37_allan_warren-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/james_baldwin_37_allan_warren-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/james_baldwin_37_allan_warren-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/james_baldwin_37_allan_warren-1-768x544.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, we bring you our 1984 interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2994\/james-baldwin-the-art-of-fiction-no-78-james-baldwin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>James Baldwin<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/3269\/why-dont-you-dance-raymond-carver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Raymond Carver<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s story \u201cWhy Don\u2019t You Dance?,\u201d and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/6123\/i-had-a-man-dorothea-lasky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dorothea Lasky<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s poem \u201cI Had a Man.\u201d\u00a0You can also listen to all three in the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third episode of our new podcast<\/a><\/strong>, featuring guest readers\u00a0LeVar Burton and Dakota Johnson.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2994\/james-baldwin-the-art-of-fiction-no-78-james-baldwin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><em>Issue no. 91 (Spring 1984)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think that it is a spiritual disaster to pretend that one doesn\u2019t love one\u2019s country. You may disapprove of it, you may be forced to leave it, you may live your whole life as a battle, yet I don\u2019t think you can escape it. There isn\u2019t any other place to go\u2014you don\u2019t pull up your roots and put them down someplace else. At least not in a single lifetime, or, if you do, you\u2019ll be aware of precisely what it means, knowing that your real roots are always elsewhere. If you try to pretend you don\u2019t see the immediate reality that formed you I think you\u2019ll go blind.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"col num12\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/3269\/why-dont-you-dance-raymond-carver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201cWhy Don&#8217;t You Dance?,\u201d by\u00a0Raymond Carver<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><em>Issue no. 79 (Spring 1981)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>They drank. They listened to the record. And then the man put on another.<\/p>\n<p>Why don\u2019t you kids dance? he decided to say, and then he said it. \u201cWhy don\u2019t\u00a0you dance?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think so,\u201d the boy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGo ahead,\u201d the man said. \u201cIt\u2019s my yard. You can dance if you want to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/6123\/i-had-a-man-dorothea-lasky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201cI Had a Man,\u201d by\u00a0Dorothea Lasky<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><em>Issue no. 199 (Winter 2011)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This violence that we put on women<br \/>\nI don\u2019t think it\u2019s crazy<br \/>\nSomeone I know said<br \/>\n\u201cOh, that man was crazy\u201d<br \/>\nI don\u2019t think he was crazy<br \/>\nMaybe he could tell I had a look in my eye<br \/>\nThat wasn\u2019t crazy anymore<br \/>\nMaybe he could feel the wild cool blood in me<br \/>\nAnd it frightened him<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Tune in for free\u2014and while you\u2019re at it,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/TPR\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=EDTNS17&amp;type=S&amp;gift_key=TESTFXG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review\u00a0<em>for instant access to everything we\u2019ve published since 1953.\u00a0<\/em><em>Order now and you\u2019ll get a copy of our new\u00a0anthology,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/women-at-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">Women at Work<\/a>,\u00a0<em>for only $10 more.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, the editors of\u00a0The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. 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