{"id":139862,"date":"2019-10-01T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=139862"},"modified":"2019-10-01T10:28:43","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:28:43","slug":"redux-courting-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/01\/redux-courting-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Courting Sleep"},"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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Cynthia Ozick.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we can\u2019t sleep\u2014our theme is insomnia. Read on for Cynthia Ozick\u2019s Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Georges Perec\u2019s short story \u201cBetween Sleep and Waking<\/a>,\u201d and Susan Barbour\u2019s poem \u201cInsomnia<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cynthia Ozick, The Art of Fiction No. 95<\/a>
\nIssue no. 102 (Spring 1987)<\/em><\/p>\n

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INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n

You write all night. Have you always done so?<\/p>\n

OZICK<\/p>\n

[Speaking, not yet typing.<\/em>] Always. I\u2019ve written in daylight, too, but mainly I go through the night.<\/p>\n

INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n

How does this affect your interaction with the rest of society?<\/p>\n

OZICK<\/p>\n

It\u2019s terrible. Most social life begins in the evening, when I\u2019m just starting. So when I do go out at night, it means I lose a whole day\u2019s work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Between Sleep and Waking<\/a>
\nBy Georges Perec
\nIssue no. 56 (Spring 1973)<\/em><\/p>\n

Later, much later\u2014you may have woken up several times, dozed back to sleep several times, you have turned on your right side, on your left side, you have lain on your back, lain face down, perhaps you have even turned on the light, perhaps smoked a cigarette\u2014later, much later, sleep becomes a target, no, it\u2019s rather you who become sleep\u2019s target. It\u2019s a widening, intermittent focus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Insomnia<\/a>
\nBy Susan Barbour
\nIssue no. 200 (Spring 2012)<\/em><\/p>\n

I have been courting sleep
\nand catering to its taste in nightgowns.<\/p>\n

I have poured it heady, vintage wines
\nand frivolous, bubbly new ones.<\/p>\n

I have wet my lips with chamomile
\nand tried out different poses \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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