{"id":140513,"date":"2019-10-29T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=140513"},"modified":"2019-10-28T12:59:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T16:59:05","slug":"redux-pen-with-which-to-write-it-all-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/29\/redux-pen-with-which-to-write-it-all-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Pen with Which to Write It All Down"},"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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This week,\u00a0we\u2019re listening to the first episode of The Paris Review Podcast<\/em> Season 2! Read on for the pieces featured in the episode: Toni Morrison\u2019s Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Mary Terrier\u2019s short story \u201cGuests<\/a>,\u201d and Alex Dimitrov\u2019s poem \u201cImpermanence<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Toni Morrison, The Art of Fiction No. 134<\/a>
\nIssue no. 128 (Fall 1993)<\/em><\/p>\n

Sometimes something that I was having some trouble with falls into place, a word sequence, say, so I\u2019ve written on scraps of paper, in hotels on hotel stationery, in automobiles. If<\/em> it arrives you know<\/em>. If you know it really<\/em> has come, then you have<\/em> to put it down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Mih\u00e1ly Munk\u00e1csy, Anyai \u00f6szt\u00f6n<\/em>, 1884, oil on panel, 36″ x 55″. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Guests<\/a>
\nBy Mary Terrier
\nIssue no. 229 (Summer 2019)<\/em><\/p>\n

The month after our mother died, our father began bringing women home. It felt like a behind-her-back kind of operation. \u201cI\u2019m going to have a guest over tonight,\u201d is what he would say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Photo: Ildar Sagdejev (CC BY-SA 4.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)).<\/p><\/div>\n

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Impermanence<\/a>
\nBy Alex Dimitrov
\nIssue no. 227 (Winter 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n

The first ending. And knowing it would end
\nI wanted another. Lover, summer,
\npen with which to write it all down.
\nThe first disappointment. Which is not
\nremembered but lives in the body \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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