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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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Walter Mosley.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re excited for the lazy, hazy days of summer that are about to begin. Read Walter Mosley\u2019s Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, as well as Susan Minot\u2019s short story \u201cHouse of Women<\/a>\u201d and Frank O\u2019Hara\u2019s poem \u201cMemorial Day 1950<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0subscribe to read the entire archive<\/a>? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door.<\/p>\n

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Walter Mosley, The Art of Fiction No. 234<\/a>
\nIssue no. 220 (Spring 2017)<\/em><\/p>\n

People ask me if I write even when I\u2019m on vacation. And I say, Man, do you take a shit on vacation?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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House of Women<\/a>
\nBy Susan Minot
\nIssue no. 121 (Winter 1991)<\/em><\/p>\n

It was a quiet summer with a long terrible time of heat. It was blue in the evenings and black at night. The elderberry hung over one side of the house and near the cars were the locust trees with their long leaves. The lights went on in the other houses and glowed yellow. We heard shouting from the family house next door. Things crashed. There were too many children. In the evenings while the kids ate dinner you could see the mother out near the laundry line, daydreaming wearily. There was no sign of a father.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Memorial Day 1950<\/a>
\nBy Frank O\u2019Hara
\nIssue no. 49 (Summer 1970)<\/em><\/p>\n

Picasso made me tough and quick, and the world;
\njust as in a minute plane trees are knocked down
\noutside my window by a crew of creators.
\nOnce he got his axe going everyone was upset
\nenough to fight for the last ditch and heap
\nof rubbish \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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