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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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At our Spring Revel this year, we will present Joy Williams with the Hadada, our lifetime-achievement award. To celebrate, we\u2019re unlocking her\u00a0Art of Fiction<\/a>\u00a0interview; \u201cThe Retreat<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0her first story published in the\u00a0Review<\/em>; and her beloved story \u201cMarabou<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t forget, the\u00a0Spring Revel<\/a>\u00a0will be held on\u00a0Tuesday, April 3<\/span><\/span>. Purchasing a ticket helps support The Paris Review Foundation and our mission to publish great writing.<\/p>\n

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Joy Williams, The Art of Fiction No. 223<\/a>
\nIssue no. 209 (Summer 2014)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibility of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Retreat<\/a>
\nBy Joy Williams
\nIssue no. 44 (Fall 1968)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe shark rose again, rolling, trussing itself in line. When it came close enough for her to see the remoras clustered on its belly, the girl fired again. The water hissed as though the shark\u2019s blood were flame, and two frigate birds drifted out from a distant tree.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lake Marabou Stork Boats Lake Albert Uganda Africa<\/p><\/div>\n

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Marabou<\/a>
\nBy Joy Williams
\nIssue no. 126 (Spring 1993)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe next day Harry had distinguished himself further by exclaiming over a marabou stork, and someone in the group told him that marabous were gruesome things, scavengers, \u2018morbidity distilled\u2019 in the words of this fussy little person, and certainly nothing to get excited about when there were hundreds of beautiful and strange creatures in Africa that one could enjoy and identify and point out to the others.\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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