{"id":139424,"date":"2019-09-10T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=139424"},"modified":"2019-09-10T12:56:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T16:56:21","slug":"redux-volume-and-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/09\/10\/redux-volume-and-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Volume and Color"},"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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William Styron.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re celebrating the release of our latest issue<\/a> with selections from Fall 2019 contributors who have previously appeared in the magazine. Read on for William Styron\u2019s 1999 Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Diane Williams\u2019s short story \u201cO Fortuna, Velut Luna<\/a>,\u201d and Kevin Prufer\u2019s poem \u201cThe Adulterer<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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William Styron, The Art of Fiction No. 156<\/a>
\nIssue no. 150 (Spring 1999)<\/em><\/p>\n

There have been certain scenes in all my works that came to me with such mysterious ease\u2014with the sense of being preordained\u2014that I can only attribute them to the same powerful subconscious process.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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O Fortuna, Velut Luna<\/a>
\nBy Diane Williams
\nIssue no. 226 (Fall 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n

What is Miss Treece\u2019s trouble, according to a popular notion?<\/p>\n

The man A has failed to show up.<\/p>\n

Arousing herself at the restaurant, she fixes her lipstick when her solo supper concludes and takes herself down the stairs situated behind the bar.<\/p>\n

There, at her business in the restroom, the foamy hand soap is suggestive of fun, but there\u2019s the wringing of her hands and the twitching of her fingers while she washes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never heard. I don\u2019t know \u2026\u2009\u201d Another woman was speaking into her phone before clicking it off. And these two women might have briefly inspired one another had they smiled, because they were both disillusioned.<\/p>\n

But they might still build temples to themselves of volume and color, as a poet once said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Adulterer<\/a>
\nBy Kevin Prufer
\nIssue no. 214 (Fall 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n

Thinking to have their fun, those boys
\nset a match to the kerosene-soaked
\nrabbit
\n………..<\/span>then watched it blaze across the lawn
\nand into the garage
\n……………………..<\/span>where it thumped
\nand smoldered behind the wheelbarrow\u2014<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

and so it also entered the memory
\nof the girl who watched
\nfrom her bedroom window<\/p>\n

but never spoke of it to anyone\u2014<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

and,\u00a0They were going to skin it and eat it, anyway<\/em>,
\nI told myself, having stopped at my desk
\nto think about the scene
\nI\u2019d just invented.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t mind me<\/em>, said the little voice
\nat the back of the garage.<\/p>\n

Then, silence. Tools and a ladder.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve done terrible things<\/em>,
\nI said into the black garage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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