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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, we bring you Lorrie Moore\u2019s\u00a0Art of Fiction interview<\/a>,\u00a0Rachel Kushner\u2019s story \u201cBlanks<\/a>,\u201d and Kevin Young\u2019s poem \u201cHomage to Phillis Wheatley<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lorrie Moore, The Art of Fiction No. 167<\/a>
\nIssue no. 158 (Spring\u2013Summer\u00a02001)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your preposition. It does seem to me to be a kind of animal impulse almost, a mammalian curiosity. For a reader to wonder about the autobiography in a fiction may be completely unavoidable and in fact may speak to the success of a particular narrative, though it may also speak to its failure. Certainly literature has been written about and taught in this manner for a long time; it\u2019s not new. It is sometimes, however, like so many things that are natural, unfortunate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Blanks<\/a>
\nBy Rachel Kushner
\nIssue no. 203 (Winter 2012)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

When I had first moved to New York from Reno, I found an apartment on Mulberry Street and planned to make films with the camera I never returned to the art department at the University of Nevada, a Bolex Pro. I arrived with the camera, my savings from selling my motorcycle, and a phone number for Chris Kelly, my single contact. I was twenty-one. I figured I\u2019d wait to call mythical Chris Kelly, a UNR student I had known only slightly. He had been shot in the arm by Nina Simone when he tried to make a film about her. I\u2019ll get situated first, I thought. I\u2019ll have some sense of what I\u2019m \u00addoing, a way to make an impression on him. Then I\u2019ll call. I knew no one else, but downtown New York was so alive with people my age, and so thoroughly abandoned by most others, that the energy of the young seeped out of the ground. I figured it was only a matter of time before I met people, was part of something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Homage to Phillis Wheatley<\/a><\/header>\n
By Kevin Young
\nIssue no. 148 (Fall 1998)\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/header>\n

There are days I can understand
\nwhy you would want to board
\nbroad back of some ship
\nand sail: venture, not homeward
\nbut toward Civilization\u2019s<\/p>\n

Cold seat,\u2014having from wild
\nbeen stolen, and sent into more wild
\nof Columbia, our exiles
\nand Christians clamoring upon
\nthe cobblestones of Bostontown\u2014<\/p>\n

Sail cross an Atlantic (this time) mild,
\nthe ship\u2019s polite and consumptive
\npassengers proud. Your sickness
\nquit soon as you disembarked in mist
\nof England\u2014free, finally, of our Republic\u2019s \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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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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