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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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Harry Mathews in Key West, Florida, 2006.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re celebrating the Fourth of July early. Read Harry Mathews\u2019s Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, as well as Rachel Kushner\u2019s short story \u201cBlanks<\/a>\u201d and George Bradley\u2019s poem \u201cThe 4th of July, and<\/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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Harry Mathews, The Art of Fiction No. 191<\/a>
\nIssue no. 180 (Spring 2007)<\/em><\/p>\n

The ends of my books are also designed in a way that subverts any illusion that what you have become involved in is anything but the book itself \u2026 At the end of Tlooth<\/em> there\u2019s a description of fireworks out of nowhere. This is the conclusion of the book, except apparently nothing is concluded. \u201cThe labyrinth of their colors sets a dense clarity against the blankness of the night.\u201d If that doesn\u2019t leave you groping \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Blanks<\/a>
\nBy Rachel Kushner
\nIssue no. 203 (Winter 2012)<\/em><\/p>\n

It was the morning of the Fourth of July and kids were lighting smoke bombs, sulfurous coils of red and green, the colors dense and bright like concentrated dye blooming through water.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The 4th of July, and<\/a>
\nBy George Bradley
\nIssue no. 112 (Winter 1989)<\/em><\/p>\n

The sidewalks are wobbling in the god-awful heat,
\n…….<\/span>Ninety-eight in the shade,
\nWhere there is shade, as New York lies locked under
\n…….<\/span>Layers of high pressure
\nThat trap the thick atmosphere \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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