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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

This week at\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>we\u2019re listening to Season 1 of\u00a0The Paris Review <\/em>Podcast<\/em>\u00a0in anticipation for\u00a0Season 2<\/a>. We\u2019ve unlocked archival selections used in Season 1: the Art of Fiction<\/a>\u00a0with Maya Angelou, the short story \u201cA Dark and Winding Road<\/a>\u201d by Ottessa Moshfegh, and Pablo Neruda\u2019s poem \u201cEmerging<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Maya Angelou, The Art of Fiction No. 119<\/a>
\nIssue no. 116 (Fall 1990)
\n<\/em>Podcast Season 1, Episode 1: \u201cTimes of Cloud<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I know when it\u2019s the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it\u2019s the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, \u201cNo. No, I\u2019m finished. Bye.\u201d And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n

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A Dark and Winding Road<\/a>
\nBy Ottessa Moshfegh
\nIssue no. 207 (Winter 2013)<\/em>
\nPodcast Season 1, Episode 7: \u201cThe Listening Forest<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

My parents kept a small cabin in the mountains. It was a simple thing, just four walls, and very dark inside. A heavy felt curtain blotted out whatever light made it through the canopy of huge pines and down into the cabin\u2019s only window. There was a queen-size bed in there, an armchair, and a wood-burning stove. It wasn\u2019t an old cabin. I think my parents built it in the seventies from a kit. In a few spots the wood beams were branded with the word home-rite<\/em>. But the spirit of the place made me think of simpler times, olden days, yore, or whenever it was that people rarely spoke except to say there was a storm coming or the berries were poisonous or whatnot, the bare essentials. It was deadly quiet up there.<\/p>\n

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Emerging<\/a>
\nBy\u00a0Pablo Neruda
\nIssue no. 57 (Spring 1974)<\/em>
\nPodcast Season 1, Episode 11: \u201cTomorrow\u2019s Reason<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

A man says yes without knowing
\nhow to decide even what the question is,
\nand is caught up, and then is carried along
\nand never again escapes from his own cocoon;
\nand that\u2019s how we are, forever falling
\ninto the deep well of other beings \u2026<\/p>\n

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