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Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/i>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 pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Don DeLillo, ca. 2011. Photo: Thousandrobots.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week, we bring you\u00a0Don DeLillo\u2019s 1993 Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, the first installment<\/a> of Chris Bachelder\u2019s novel\u00a0The Throwback Special<\/em>, and\u00a0Greg Kosmicki\u2019s poem \u201cToday<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Don DeLillo, The Art of Fiction No. 135<\/a>
\nIssue no. 128 (Fall 1993)<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a zone I aspire to. Finding it is another question. It\u2019s a state of automatic writing, and it represents the paradox that\u2019s at the center of a writer\u2019s consciousness\u2014this writer\u2019s anyway. First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there\u2019s a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger. The best moments involve a loss of control. It\u2019s a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly often\u2014completely surprising combinations that make a higher kind of sense, that come to you out of nowhere. But rarely for extended periods, for paragraphs and pages\u2014I think poets must have more access to this state than novelists do. In\u00a0End Zone<\/em>, a number of characters play a game of touch football in a snowstorm. There\u2019s nothing rapturous or magical about the writing. The writing is simple. But I wrote the passage, maybe five or six pages, in a state of pure momentum, without the slightest pause or deliberation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Throwback Special: Part 1<\/a>
\nBy Chris Bachelder
\nIssue no. 213 (Summer 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n

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PROLOGUE: TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY<\/p>\n

November 18, 1985\u2014Washington Redskins quarter\u00adback Joe Theismann, thirty-six, suffers a career-ending compound fracture of the right leg on a sack by New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor during a telecast of ABC\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Monday Night Football. On first-and-ten from their own forty-six-yard line, early in the second quarter with the score tied 7\u20137, the Redskins attempt a trick play called a flea-flicker. Theismann hands the ball off to tailback John Riggins, who takes several steps forward and then pitches the ball back to Theismann. Theismann looks to throw a deep pass, but he immediately faces pressure from Giants linebacker Harry Carson. \u201cTheismann\u2019s in a lot of trouble,\u201d says play-by-play commentator Frank Gifford. He steps forward into the pocket to avoid Carson, but Taylor, rushing from Theismann\u2019s blind side, leaps onto his back. Theismann ducks, and as Taylor falls and spins, his thigh strikes Theismann in the calf with enough force to snap the bones of Theismann\u2019s leg. \u201cIt sounded like two muzzled gunshots,\u201d Theismann says later. Taylor stands quickly, waving to the Redskins sideline for medical help. ABC decides to show the reverse angle replay twice. \u201cAnd I suggest,\u201d Gifford says before the replay, \u201cif your stomach is weak, you just don\u2019t watch.\u201d \u201cWhen you see a competitor like Joe Theismann injured, especially this severely, I don\u2019t think anyone feels good about it,\u201d commentator O.\u2009J. Simpson says. Theismann receives an ovation as he is carried from the field at RFK Stadium on a stretcher. \u201cI just hope it\u2019s not his last play in football,\u201d says commentator Joe Namath. Jay Schroeder replaces Theismann at quarterback, and the Redskins defeat the Giants 23\u201321. Theismann, a former league MVP who had played in 163 consecutive games, never plays again.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Today<\/a>
\nBy Greg Kosmicki
\nIssue no. 69 (Spring 1977)<\/em><\/p>\n

Today is beautiful the birds singing
\nin the trees where they have landed or in the air when
\nthey are going, the sun wrapping its fingers
\naround the earth like a lover\u2019s nipple
\nand tweaking, the dirt smells of all the stock car
\ntracks I have ever been to and of all the fields
\nI have ever plowed coming up from the ground
\nand hanging invisible in the air with the grass smell
\nof all the football fields I have ever had
\nmy face rubbed in, mingling with the heat waves
\nrising from car bodies in the sun like the heat \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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