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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<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Deborah Eisenberg. Photograph courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.<\/p><\/div>\n

In this week\u2019s Redux, we\u2019re reading the three writers we\u2019ll be celebrating at our annual Spring Revel, with Hadada Award recipient Deborah Eisenberg\u2019s 2013 Art of Fiction interview<\/a>; Kelli Jo Ford\u2019s short story \u201cHybrid Vigor<\/a>,\u201d winner of the 2019 Plimpton Prize for Fiction; and Benjamin Nugent\u2019s short story \u201cSafe Spaces<\/a>,\u201d winner of the 2019 Terry Southern Prize for Humor.<\/p>\n

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Deborah Eisenberg, The Art of Fiction No. 218<\/a>
\nIssue no. 204 (Spring 2013)<\/p>\n

The real fun of writing, for me at least, is the experience of making a set of givens yield. There\u2019s an incredibly inflexible set of instruments\u2014our vocabulary, our grammar, the abstract symbols on paper, the limitations of your own powers of expression. You write something down and it\u2019s awkward, trivial, artificial, approximate. But with effort you can get it to become a little flexible, a little transparent. You can get it to open up, and expose something lurking there beyond the clumsy thing you first put down. When you add a comma or add or subtract a word, and the thing reacts and changes, it\u2019s so exciting that you forget how absolutely terrible writing feels a lot of the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Hybrid Vigor<\/a>
\nBy Kelli Jo Ford
\nIssue no. 227 (Winter 2018)<\/p>\n

By the glow of the headlights, Reney counted again. A calf was gone. A bawling cow trotting ruts into the fence line confirmed Reney\u2019s count. She shoved her work gloves into the back pocket of a pair of Wes\u2019s greasy coveralls. She\u2019d slipped them on over her underwear and a Dairy Queen polo, and now static electricity popped as she climbed into the idling diesel to get the shotgun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Safe Spaces<\/a>
\nBy Benjamin Nugent
\nIssue no. 225 (Summer 2018)<\/p>\n

Claire\u2019s roommates threw her out on November third, for falling behind on rent and hogging the Xbox. During the next three weeks, she lived in other people\u2019s houses. She missed the Xbox, but couch surfing was like a game. She had to not smell like coke-sweat or wipe her nose all the time in front of her hosts, and she had to figure out the magic words that would make them let her stay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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