{"id":137134,"date":"2019-06-11T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=137134"},"modified":"2019-06-13T11:19:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:19:34","slug":"redux-lost-causes-confound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/11\/redux-lost-causes-confound\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Lost Causes Confound"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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Lydia Davis in Paris, 1973.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re reading archive pieces written by contributors to the Summer 2019 issue<\/a>. Read Lydia Davis\u2019s Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, as well as Richard Ford\u2019s short story \u201cShooting the Rest Area<\/a>\u201d and Ishion Hutchinson\u2019s poem \u201cA Horace to Horace<\/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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Lydia Davis, Art of Fiction No. 227<\/a>
\nIssue no. 212 (Spring 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n

Back in the early eighties, I realized that you could write a story that was really just a narration of something that had happened to you, and change it slightly, without having really to fictionalize it. In a way, that\u2019s found material.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Shooting the Rest Area<\/a>
\nBy Richard Ford
\nIssue no. 62 (Summer 1975)<\/em><\/p>\n

In the dark Edgar Haney walked from his truck and turned up the sidewalk to the cafe. It was an hour before light, and he shuddered inside his coat as the cold touched his flesh. And this is the thing that came to him. That in 1937, they had a black Mercury and his father had a heart attack and couldn\u2019t call on his jobbers. So his mother drove.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A Horace to Horace<\/a>
\nBy Ishion Hutchinson
\nIssue no. 224 (Spring 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n

Lost causes confound. Where are you, cousin,
\nsince you swung upside down the iron gate
\noutside school? The earth is your sky\u2014correct
\nme, was<\/em>. I blame the missionaries \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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