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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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This week, to celebrate the publication of\u00a0The Writer\u2019s Chapbook<\/em><\/a>, the second volume from Paris Review Editions, we bring you a sampling of writers on writing.<\/p>\n

Luisa Valenzuela, The Art of Fiction No. 170<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>
\nIssue no. 160\u00a0(Winter\u00a02001)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWomen come from the badlands of language. Women know a lot about ambivalence and ambiguity\u2014which is why, I think, good, subtle political writing by women novelists is dismissed in Argentina. Women are expected to console, not disturb the readers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cHow to Write a Poem<\/a>,\u201d by Gordon Lish<\/a>
\nIssue no. 82 (Winter 1981)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI tell you, I am no more interested in poetry than the next fellow is. I mean, I can take it or leave it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s Called an Ars Poetica, Darling<\/a>,\u201d by Thomas Healy<\/a>
\nIssue no. 158 (Spring\u2013Summer 2001)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOne definition of love
\nis the grocery list, its
\nshorthand reckoning<\/p>\n

of common needs, peculiar
\ntastes and settled arguments,
\nscratches of Morse code \u2026 \u201d<\/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-five-year archive, not to mention four issues of new interviews, poetry, and fiction.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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