{"id":133763,"date":"2019-02-19T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=133763"},"modified":"2019-02-19T11:29:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T16:29:55","slug":"redux-miles-of-mostly-vacant-lots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/19\/redux-miles-of-mostly-vacant-lots\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Miles of Mostly Vacant Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/i>The Paris Review<i>\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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dkY3AH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift 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 signing up for the Redux newsletter. (opens in a new tab)\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_133767\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/1888\/toni-morrison-the-art-of-fiction-no-134-toni-morrison\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133767\" class=\"wp-image-133767 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/toni-morrison.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/toni-morrison.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/toni-morrison-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/toni-morrison-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-133767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toni Morrison, ca. 2008. Photograph by Angela Radulescu.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week, we\u2019re celebrating Toni Morrison\u2019s birthday with her 1993 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/1888\/toni-morrison-the-art-of-fiction-no-134-toni-morrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, observing Presidents\u2019 Day with Philip Levine\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2637\/a-walk-with-tom-jefferson-philip-levine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Walk with Tom Jefferson<\/a>,\u201d and delving deep into the archive to retrieve Gisela Elsner\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/4448\/a-pastoral-gisela-elsner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Pastoral<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\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=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"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. (opens in a new tab)\">subscribe to read the entire archive<\/a>? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/1888\/toni-morrison-the-art-of-fiction-no-134-toni-morrison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toni Morrison, The Art of Fiction No. 134<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 128 (Fall 1993)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don\u2019t trust my writing that is not written, although I work very hard in subsequent revisions to remove the writerly-ness from it, to give it a combination of lyrical, standard, and colloquial language. To pull all these things together into something that I think is much more alive and representative. But I don\u2019t trust something that occurs to me and then is spoken and transferred immediately to the page.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2637\/a-walk-with-tom-jefferson-philip-levine\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-133769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tjpeg-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tjpeg-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tjpeg-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tjpeg-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\/2637\/a-walk-with-tom-jefferson-philip-levine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Walk with Tom Jefferson<\/a><br \/>\nBy Philip Levine<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 104 (Fall 1987)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Between the freeway<br \/>\nand the gray conning towers<br \/>\nof the ballpark, miles<br \/>\nof mostly vacant lots, once<br \/>\na neighborhood of small<br \/>\ntwo-storey wooden houses\u2014<br \/>\ndwellings for immigrants<br \/>\nfrom Ireland, Germany,<br \/>\nPoland, West Virginia,<br \/>\nMexico, Dodge Main.<br \/>\nA little world with only<br \/>\nthree seasons, or so we said\u2014<br \/>\none to get tired, one to get<br \/>\nold, one to die \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/4448\/a-pastoral-gisela-elsner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-133770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/elsner-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/elsner-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/elsner-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/elsner-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/elsner.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/4448\/a-pastoral-gisela-elsner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Pastoral<\/a><br \/>\nBy Gisela Elsner<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 34 (Spring\u2013Summer 1965)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAnyone who looks,\u201d the man called out, quite out of breath, \u201chas only himself to blame! When you get down to it, you have a choice between four points of the compass, and you can always look at the sky if the view everywhere else gets on your nerves!\u201d<\/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=\"noreferrer 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, we\u2019ve lowered the paywall on Toni Morrison\u2019s Art of Fiction interview, a poem by Philip Levine, and a short story by Gisela 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