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Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>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>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nThis week at\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re celebrating that April\u2019s showers have turned into May\u2019s flowers. Read\u00a0our\u00a0Art of Fiction interview<\/a>\u00a0with Iris Murdoch, as well as Ira Sadoff\u2019s short story \u201cS<\/a>even Romances<\/a>\u201d and Dorothea Lasky\u2019s poem \u201cThe Orange Flower<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Iris Murdoch, The Art of Fiction No. 117<\/a>
\nIssue no. 115 (Summer 1990)<\/em><\/p>\n

You have the extraordinary experience when you begin a novel that you are now in a state of unlimited freedom, and this is alarming. Every choice you make will exclude another choice, so that it\u2019s rather important what happens then, what state of mind you\u2019re in and what you think matters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Orange Flower<\/a>
\nBy Dorothea Lasky
\nIssue no. 208 (Spring 2014)<\/em><\/p>\n

What is between us
\nIs an orange flower<\/p>\n

And it is blooming and blooming
\nAnd I can\u2019t I won\u2019t stop it<\/p>\n

Still the sour flower of my vagina
\nRuins everything \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Seven Romances<\/a>
\nBy Ira Sadoff
\nIssue no. 68 (Winter 1976)<\/em><\/p>\n

I could not help myself, I fell in love with the florist. Each day he handed me arrangements of flowers: lilies-of-the-valley, chrysanthemums and roses, exotic willows and violets. As a lover he was strange and melancholy: he had an intense hatred for the out-of-doors and almost never left the house; the mention of sports made him dizzy and a car moving too fast would bring him close to tears \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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