{"id":139040,"date":"2019-08-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=139040"},"modified":"2019-08-26T13:59:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T17:59:42","slug":"redux-a-heat-that-hung-like-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/27\/redux-a-heat-that-hung-like-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: A Heat That Hung Like Rain"},"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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Don DeLillo, ca. 2011. Photo: Thousandrobots.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re celebrating that most late-August phenomenon: humidity, and the ensuing sweat. Read on for Don DeLillo\u2019s Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Sheila Kohler\u2019s short story \u201cCracks<\/a>,\u201d and Andrew Klavan\u2019s poem \u201cThe Pond<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Don DeLillo, The Art of Fiction No. 135<\/a>
\nIssue no. 128 (Fall 1993)<\/em><\/p>\n

On humid summer nights I tracked horseflies through the apartment and killed them\u2014not for the meat but because they were driving me crazy with their buzzing. I hadn\u2019t developed a sense of the level of dedication that\u2019s necessary to do this kind of work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Cracks<\/a>
\nBy Sheila Kohler
\nIssue no. 145 (Winter 1997)<\/em><\/p>\n

Perhaps Fiamma did not make herself faint. Perhaps she just fainted. The girls on the swimming team take turns fainting in chapel. We all know how to do it. Before Communion, while you are on your knees and have not had any breakfast, you breathe hard a few times, and then you hold your breath and close your eyes. You sweat and start to see diamonds in the dark. You feel yourself rush out of yourself, out and out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Pond<\/a>
\nBy Andrew Klavan
\nIssue no. 115 (Summer 1990)<\/em><\/p>\n

Child-crafted clouds, all sheen and fleece and curlicues,
\nas a girl, with her tongue in her teeth, would have made them,
\nthe point of her crayon squashed against the page.
\nOne came across the mountains, then another came;
\none shadow of one ran across the grass and then another;
\nbut the small apple tree and even the great maples
\nflagged in a heat that hung like rain,
\nthat grayed the air with sweat under
\nthe stark, flat, white medallion of the sun;
\na swimmer\u2019s heat that even the woman on the porch steps
\npanted in. Still, she would not go in the pond.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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