{"id":129006,"date":"2018-09-04T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=129006"},"modified":"2018-09-05T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T19:43:07","slug":"redux-if-you-can-hoe-corn-for-fifty-cents-an-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/04\/redux-if-you-can-hoe-corn-for-fifty-cents-an-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: If You Can Hoe Corn for Fifty Cents an Hour \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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\" rel=\"noopener\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-129008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-1-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was Labor Day, so this week, we bring you\u00a0Jim Harrison\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2511\/jim-harrison-the-art-of-fiction-no-104-jim-harrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D689dfa1526%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1536156745228000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFtEe6MsvIxRhr_HY-8QqbZJ534Tg\">Art of Fiction<\/a>\u00a0interview,\u00a0Richard Yates\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/4939\/a-wrestler-with-sharks-richard-yates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Dd9d9c1727d%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1536156745228000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHtfBZVRBYsRo5BLxQyrJlMDl-h2A\">A Wrestler with Sharks<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0and Henri Coulette\u2019s\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/4514\/the-blue-eyed-precinct-worker-henri-coulette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Da677dc4fde%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1536156745228000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGIXiIeftOj2uRHzYi1ESaVtTqikQ\">The Blue-Eyed Precinct Worker<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2511\/jim-harrison-the-art-of-fiction-no-104-jim-harrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D4033a323c9%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1536156745228000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEcRTCrpBlSfa2XtFZ0LQWwTp8QpQ\">Jim Harrison, The Art of Fiction No. 104<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 107 (Summer 1988)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you can hoe corn for fifty cents an hour, day after day, you can learn how to write a novel. You have absorbed the spirit of repetition. When you look at my wife\u2019s garden you understand that; the beauty of the garden\u2014the flowers and the vegetables\u2014that\u2019s how an artist is in his work. And I think the background that at first nonplussed me\u2014that rural, almost white-trash element\u2014stood me in good stead as an artist, in the great variety of life it forced me into, the hunger to do things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-129009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-1-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-1-1-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/4939\/a-wrestler-with-sharks-richard-yates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D5b27566fcd%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1536156745228000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEe8Y1Zx7lk-_1chQLh6H585Am0fw\">A Wrestler with Sharks<\/a><br \/>\nBy Richard Yates<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 13 (Summer 1956)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nobody had much respect for\u00a0<em>The Labor Leader<\/em>. Even Finkel and Kramm, its owners, the two sour brothers-in-law who\u2019d dreamed it up in the first place and who somehow managed to make a profit on it year after year\u2014even they could take little pride in the thing. At least, that\u2019s what I used to suspect from the way they\u2019d hump grudgingly around the office, shivering the bile-green partitions with their thumps and shouts, grabbing and tearing at galley-proofs, breaking pencil-points, dropping wet cigar butts on the floor, and slamming telephones contemptuously into their cradles.\u00a0<em>The Labor Leader<\/em>\u00a0was all either of them would ever have for a life\u2019s work, and they seemed to hate it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-129010\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/unnamed-2-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/4514\/the-blue-eyed-precinct-worker-henri-coulette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Dc81a0bf45f%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1536156745228000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHoLLb56k6BwX89x1vCMPajJP8QrQ\">The Blue-Eyed Precinct Worker<\/a><br \/>\nBy Henri Coulette<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 31 (Winter\u2013Spring 1964)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our shadows burst forth, monstrous and alien.<br \/>\nThere, on the far rim,<br \/>\nare the houses of the rich.<br \/>\nIt is the dinner hour, and they eat<br \/>\nprime rib of unicorn or breast of phoenix.<br \/>\nIt is another precinct \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you like what you read,\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\" rel=\"noopener\">get a year of<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>\u2014four new issues, plus instant access to everything we\u2019ve ever published.<\/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. &nbsp; &nbsp; Yesterday was Labor Day, so this week, we bring you\u00a0Jim Harrison\u2019s\u00a0Art of Fiction\u00a0interview,\u00a0Richard Yates\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31006],"tags":[36512,1016,35131,36513,241,1054,16837,24377,504,165,31384,515,261,36684,4695],"class_list":["post-129006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redux","tag-a-wrestler-with-sharks","tag-art-of-fiction","tag-free","tag-henri-coulette","tag-interview","tag-jim-harrison","tag-labor","tag-labor-day","tag-literature","tag-poetry","tag-redux","tag-richard-yates","tag-short-story","tag-the-blue-eyed-precinct-worker","tag-union"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Redux: If You Can Hoe Corn for Fifty Cents an Hour \u2026 by The Paris Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This week, we\u2019re giving you free access to Jim Harrison\u2019s Art of Fiction interview, a story by Richard Yates, and a poem by Henri Coulette.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/04\/redux-if-you-can-hoe-corn-for-fifty-cents-an-hour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Redux: If You Can Hoe Corn for Fifty Cents an Hour \u2026 by The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"September 4, 2018 \u2013 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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