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Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The 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<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jamaica Kincaid<\/p><\/div>\n

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This week, we bring you Jamaica Kincaid\u2019s short story \u201cWhat I Have Been Doing Lately<\/a>\u201d;\u00a0James Salter\u2019s story \u201cBangkok<\/a>\u201d; and part 1 of Robert Bly\u2019s \u201cChoral Stanzas<\/a>,\u201d from the very first issue of The Paris Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You can listen to all three in \u201cThunder, They Told Her<\/a>,\u201d the final episode of the first season of\u00a0The Paris Review Podcast<\/em>. But fear not, like the literary works we\u2019ve featured in this first season, each episode is\u00a0designed to be listened to again and again. Be sure to stay subscribed to our podcast channel\u2014we may have some surprises for you before we begin season 2. And if you like what you hear, tell your friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat<\/a> I Have Been Doing Lately,\u201d by Jamaica Kincaid
\n<\/a><\/strong>Issue no. 82 (Winter 1981)<\/em><\/p>\n

What I have been doing lately: I was lying in bed and the doorbell rang. I ran downstairs. Quick. I opened the door. There was no one there. I stepped outside.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBangkok,\u201d by James Salter
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Hollis was in the back at a table piled with books and a space among them where he was writing when Carol came in.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTwo Choral Stanzas,\u201d by\u00a0Robert Bly
\n<\/a><\/strong>Issue no. 1 (Spring 1953)<\/em><\/p>\n

The dove returns; it found no resting place;
\nIt was in flight all night above the shaken seas \u2026<\/p>\n

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If you like what you read, why not\u00a0become 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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