{"id":136880,"date":"2019-06-04T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=136880"},"modified":"2019-06-03T16:52:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T20:52:30","slug":"redux-a-pin-cushion-with-no-pins-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/04\/redux-a-pin-cushion-with-no-pins-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: A Pin-Cushion with No Pins in It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>\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=\"noopener noreferrer\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_136882\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/510\/lorrie-moore-the-art-of-fiction-no-167-lorrie-moore\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136882\" class=\"wp-image-136882 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/lorrie-moore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/lorrie-moore.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/lorrie-moore-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/lorrie-moore-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-136882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorrie Moore. Photo: \u00a9 Linda Nylind.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week at <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re thinking of our feline companions. Read Lorrie Moore\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/510\/lorrie-moore-the-art-of-fiction-no-167-lorrie-moore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, as well as Sa\u00efd Sayrafiezadeh\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6351\/metaphor-of-the-falling-cat-said-sayrafiezadeh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metaphor of the Falling Cat<\/a>\u201d and Pati Hill\u2019s essay \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/letters-essays\/5021\/cats-pati-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cats<\/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=\"noopener noreferrer\">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\/510\/lorrie-moore-the-art-of-fiction-no-167-lorrie-moore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lorrie Moore, The Art of Fiction No. 167<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 158 (Spring\u2013Summer 2001)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOORE<\/p>\n<p>My editor did suggest that if I were feeling strapped for cash perhaps I should consider entering my cat in the Purina Cat Chow contest. Shortly thereafter, for money reasons indeed, I left New York for good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p>What kind of cat was it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MOORE<\/p>\n<p>What kind of cat was it? Well, he was a farm cat from Ithaca, New York. Very beautiful, very intelligent, a certain <em>je ne sais quoi<\/em>, but in a national competition, believe me, he didn\u2019t have a prayer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6351\/metaphor-of-the-falling-cat-said-sayrafiezadeh\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-136884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/falling-cat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/falling-cat.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/falling-cat-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/falling-cat-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\/fiction\/6351\/metaphor-of-the-falling-cat-said-sayrafiezadeh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metaphor of the Falling Cat<\/a><br \/>\nBy Sa\u00efd Sayrafiezadeh<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 211 (Winter 2014)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One afternoon, apropos of nothing, I happened to tell him about a cat I\u2019d once had when I was a little boy, Lucky Joe, who\u2019d fallen sixteen flights off my balcony on East Eighty-Third Street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a beautiful cat,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCats don\u2019t just fall off balconies,\u201d the therapist said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/letters-essays\/5021\/cats-pati-hill\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-136887\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pati-cat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pati-cat.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pati-cat-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pati-cat-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/letters-essays\/5021\/cats-pati-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cats<\/a><br \/>\nBy Pati Hill<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 9 (Summer 1955)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They are wonderful when they stick their noses cautiously into a hole and then back out again, and when they flatten down their ears the tops of their heads look like giant bumblebees. Also they have marvelous feet. When a cat puts his paw on the head of a half eaten fish it is at once delicate and dainty and fierce and when he retracts his claws again he is most beautifully innocent like firearms in a shop window or a pin-cushion with no pins in it.<\/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 Lorrie Moore\u2019s Art of Fiction interview, a short story by Sa\u00efd Sayrafiezadeh, and an essay by 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