{"id":131419,"date":"2018-12-04T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=131419"},"modified":"2018-12-05T14:47:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T19:47:28","slug":"redux-the-famous-sideshow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/04\/redux-the-famous-sideshow\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: The Famous Sideshow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every week, the editors of<\/em>\u00a0The 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=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dkY3AH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_131424\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2538\/marguerite-yourcenar-the-art-of-fiction-no-103-marguerite-yourcenar\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-131424\" class=\"wp-image-131424 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/yourcenar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/yourcenar.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/yourcenar-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/yourcenar-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-131424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marguerite Yourcenar, ca. 1983. Courtesy Nationaal Archief Fotocollectie Anefo.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week, we bring you Marguerite Yourcenar\u2019s 1988 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2538\/marguerite-yourcenar-the-art-of-fiction-no-103-marguerite-yourcenar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Maxine Kumin\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/3688\/another-form-of-marriage-maxine-kumin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another Form of Marriage<\/a>,\u201d and John Ashbery\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/6156\/weed-commercial-john-ashbery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weed Commercial<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not subscribe to read the entire archive? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marguerite Yourcenar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2538\/marguerite-yourcenar-the-art-of-fiction-no-103-marguerite-yourcenar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Art of Fiction No. 103<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 106 (Spring 1988)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One lives in a commercialized society against which one <em>must<\/em> struggle. But it is not easy. As soon as one is dealing with the media one becomes their victim. But have we really lost the sense of the sacred? I wonder! Because unfortunately in the past the sacred was intricately mixed with superstition, and people came to consider superstitious even that which was not. For example, peasants believed that it was better to sow the grain at full moon. But they were quite right: That is the moment when the sap rises, drawn by gravitation. What is frightening is the loss of the sacred in human, particularly sexual, relationships, because then no true union is possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/3688\/another-form-of-marriage-maxine-kumin\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-131469 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/kumin-1-1024x859.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/kumin-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/kumin-1-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/kumin-1-768x644.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\/3688\/another-form-of-marriage-maxine-kumin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another Form of Marriage<\/a><br \/>\nBy Maxine Kumin<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 67 (Fall 1976)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They were touring New England, escaped lovers in mid-June, when the signs sprang up, hand-lettered in red and green on shiny white boards. <em>5 Miles to Skyvue Strawberry Farm!<\/em> the first one proclaimed, followed in due course by <em>Skyvue Strawberry Farm, 1 Mile on Left <\/em>and<em> Pick Your Own at Skyvue Strawberry Farm 10 to 4<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s,\u201d she said, squeezing the brown corduroy of his knee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what will we do with them?\u201d he said, thinking of tonight\u2019s motel somewhere in the Champlain Valley and tomorrow\u2019s drive down the Hudson to their separate suburbs. He would leave her at the train station just as he had last year, and the year before, and the year before that. As if she had ridden the local out from Grand Central, she would take a taxi home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEat them. Take them home. Oh never mind!\u201d she despaired. She had caught sight of herself at the taxi stand. Strawberries spilling out of her shopping bags.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/6156\/weed-commercial-john-ashbery\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-131470 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ashbery-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ashbery-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ashbery-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ashbery-1-768x512.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\/6156\/weed-commercial-john-ashbery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weed Commercial<\/a><br \/>\nBy John Ashbery<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 201 (Summer 2012)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is the platform of the famous sideshow,<br \/>\nall of us participating, glad to be arm and arm<br \/>\nas spring charges down the battlefield. Let\u2019s see,<br \/>\nwhat shall we wish for this time? Better make it<br \/>\na serious one, as though this were the third.<br \/>\nI was going to suggest a ton of flowers,<br \/>\nice cream for the bridesmaids. A bonnie installation.<\/p>\n<p>A little convention, c\u2019mon. Madrigal evidence suggests<br \/>\nwe were all on our lonesome once<br \/>\nbefore Dad came to unleash the privileged characters.<\/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=ENAPRFX&amp;type=S&amp;gift_key=TESTFXG&amp;utm_source=ReduxBlogpost&amp;utm_medium=ReduxBlogpost&amp;utm_campaign=ReduxBlogpost&amp;utm_term=ReduxBlogpost&amp;utm_content=ReduxBlogpost\" 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>This week\u2019s Redux lowers the paywall on Marguerite Yourcenar\u2019s Art of Fiction interview, a story by Maxine Kumin, and a poem by John 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