{"id":119139,"date":"2017-12-12T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=119139"},"modified":"2017-12-11T13:39:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T18:39:02","slug":"eureka-moment-ernest-hemingway-sam-lipsyte-james-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/eureka-moment-ernest-hemingway-sam-lipsyte-james-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Eureka Moment: Ernest Hemingway, Sam Lipsyte, James Wright"},"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\/12\/ernesthemingway-1-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ernesthemingway-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ernesthemingway-1-copy.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ernesthemingway-1-copy-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ernesthemingway-1-copy-768x541.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This week, we bring you our 1958 interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/4825\/ernest-hemingway-the-art-of-fiction-no-21-ernest-hemingway\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Ernest Hemingway<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0and highlights from the fourth episode of our podcast:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6037\/the-worm-in-philly-sam-lipsyte\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Sam Lipsyte<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u2019s short story\u00a0\u201cThe Worm in Philly\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/4656\/lying-in-a-hammock-at-a-friends-farm-in-pine-island-minnesota-james-wright\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>James Wright<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u2019s famous poem\u00a0\u201cLying in a Hammock at a Friend\u2019s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/podcast\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>In the podcast<\/b><\/span><\/a>, you can also hear\u00a0George Plimpton\u00a0recall a boxing match in Hemingway\u2019s dining room; plus, special guests Marc Maron and Robert Pattinson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/4825\/ernest-hemingway-the-art-of-fiction-no-21-ernest-hemingway\" target=\"_blank\"><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction No. 21<\/span><br \/>\n<\/b><\/a><em><span class=\"s2\">Issue no. 18 (Spring 1958)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\"><em>The Old Man and the Sea<\/em> could have been over a thousand pages long and had every character in the village in it and all the processes of how they made their living, were born, educated, bore children, et cetera. That is done excellently and well by other writers. In writing you are limited by what has already been done satisfactorily. So I have tried to learn to do something else. First I have tried to eliminate everything unnecessary to conveying experience to the reader so that after he or she has read something it will become a part of his or her experience and seem actually to have happened. This is very hard to do and I\u2019ve worked at it very hard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6037\/the-worm-in-philly-sam-lipsyte\" target=\"_blank\"><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201cThe Worm in Philly,\u201d by Sam Lipsyte<\/span><br \/>\n<\/b><\/a><\/span><em><span class=\"s2\">Issue no. 194 (Fall 2010)<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s2\"><em>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Classic American story: I was out of money and people I could ask for money. Then I got what the Greeks, or even the Greek Americans, call a eureka moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">I would write a book for children about the great middleweight Marvelous Marvin Hagler. My father had been a sportswriter before he started forgetting things, like the fact he had been a sportswriter, so the idea did not seem crazy. Probably it\u2019s like when your father is president. You think: if that fuck could do it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/4656\/lying-in-a-hammock-at-a-friends-farm-in-pine-island-minnesota-james-wright\" target=\"_blank\"><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201cLying in a Hammock at a Friend\u2019s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota,\u201d by James Wright<\/span><br \/>\n<\/b><\/a><\/span><em><span class=\"s2\">Issue no. 26 (Summer\u2013Fall 1961)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">Asleep on the black trunk,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">Blowing like a leaf in green shadow.<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">Down the ravine behind Duffy\u2019s empty house,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">The cowbells follow one another<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">Into the distances of the afternoon.<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">To my right,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">In a field of sunlight between two pines,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">The droppings of last year\u2019s horses<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">Blaze up into golden stones.<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">A chicken-hawk floats over, looking for home.<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">I have wasted my life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>If you like what you read, why not\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\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>become a subscriber<\/b><\/span><\/a>? You\u2019ll get instant access\u00a0to our entire sixty-four-year archive, not to mention four issues of new interviews, poetry, and fiction. A subscription to\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>, plus a copy of\u00a0<\/em>Women at Work<em>, also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/TPR\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=EDTNG17\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>makes a great gift<\/b><\/span><\/a>.<\/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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