{"id":119769,"date":"2018-01-02T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=119769"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:34:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T18:34:44","slug":"redux-eudora-welty-david-sedaris-sharon-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/02\/redux-eudora-welty-david-sedaris-sharon-olds\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Eudora Welty, David Sedaris, Sharon Olds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><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>.<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/eudora-welty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/eudora-welty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/eudora-welty.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/eudora-welty-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/eudora-welty-768x600.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Happy New Year, and welcome to your free weekly holiday in the archives of <em>The Paris Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This week, we bring you\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/4013\/eudora-welty-the-art-of-fiction-no-47-eudora-welty\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Eudora Welty<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u2019s Art of Fiction interview from our Fall 1972 issue; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/letters-essays\/7055\/letter-from-emerald-isle-david-sedaris\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>David Sedaris<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u2019s essay \u201cLetter from Emerald Isle,\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2741\/the-beetle-sharon-olds\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Sharon Olds<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u2019s poem \u201cThe Beetle.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And why not ring in the New Year by\u00a0listening to all three in the sixth episode of our podcast, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/podcast\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>The Beetle and the Butterfly<\/b><\/span><\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/4013\/eudora-welty-the-art-of-fiction-no-47-eudora-welty\" target=\"_blank\"><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Eudora Welty, The Art of Fiction No. 47<\/span><br \/>\n<\/b><\/a><\/span><em><span class=\"s2\">Issue no. 55 (Fall 1972)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">My father\u2019s father owned a farm in southern Ohio, and my mother\u2019s father was a country lawyer and farmer in West Virginia, and both my mother\u2019s parents came from Virginia families made up mostly of teachers and preachers. Some of these wrote for newspapers or kept journals, though none wrote fiction. But the family influence I felt came from the important fact that they all loved to read and that I was brought up with books. Yet my parents would have been the people they were, people of character, no matter where they were from, and I would have been their child wherever I was born. I\u2019m a native Southerner, but as a writer I think background matters most in how well it teaches you to look around and see clearly what\u2019s there and in how deeply it nourishes your imagination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/letters-essays\/7055\/letter-from-emerald-isle-david-sedaris\" target=\"_blank\"><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201cLetter from Emerald Isle,\u201d by\u00a0David Sedaris<\/span><br \/>\n<\/b><\/a><\/span><em><span class=\"s2\">Issue no. 222 (Fall 2017)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Our house on Emerald Isle, The Sea Section, is divided down the middle, and has an\u00a0E\u00a0beside one front\u00a0door\u00a0and a\u00a0W\u00a0beside the\u00a0other.\u00a0The east side is ruled by Hugh, and the bedroom we share is on the top\u00a0floor.\u00a0It opens onto a deck that overlooks the ocean and is next to\u00a0Amy\u2019s\u00a0room, which is the same size as ours\u00a0but is shaped differently. Unlike Lisa and Paul, who are on the\u00a0west\u00a0side of the house and could probably sleep on burlap without noticing it, Amy likes nice\u00a0sheets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2741\/the-beetle-sharon-olds\" target=\"_blank\"><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201cThe Beetle,\u201d by Sharon Olds<\/span><br \/>\n<\/b><\/a><\/span><em><span class=\"s2\">Issue no. 101 (Winter 1986)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">When I go to the bathroom I see a beetle in the tub,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">black, with a band of stone color<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">around the center, granite with a trace of<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">lichen on it, luminous on a damp day,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">and I wonder if it&#8217;s a death-watch beetle,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">and I think of your death,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">I wonder if the cancer will take<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">a long time or a short time<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">and I wonder if death-watch beetles are the beetles<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">that eat the dead. I think of you buried,<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s2\">I think of the beetles that will eat your body, I would like to be one of them \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><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.\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. You can have these unlocked\u00a0pieces delivered straight to your inbox every\u00a0Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter. 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