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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

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Isak Dinesen. Illustration by Michael Batterberry, 1956.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, our gaze is directed toward the moon. Read on for Isak Dinesen\u2019s Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Ottessa Moshfegh\u2019s short story \u201cDancing in the Moonlight<\/a>,\u201d and Jorge Luis Borges\u2019s poem \u201cThe Moon<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Isak Dinesen, The Art of Fiction No. 14<\/a>
\nIssue no. 14 (Autumn 1956)<\/em><\/p>\n

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DINESEN<\/p>\n

The amusing thing is, that after the book was published in America, Huntington wrote to Robert Haas praising it, and begging for the address of the author, saying he must have the book for England. He had met me as Baroness Blixen, while Mr. Haas and I had never seen one another. He never connected me with Isak Dinesen. Later he did publish the book in England.<\/p>\n

INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n

That\u2019s delightful; it\u2019s like something from one of the tales.<\/p>\n

DINESEN<\/p>\n

How lovely to sit here in the open, but we must be going I think. Shall we continue our discussion on Sunday? I should like to see the Etruscan things at the Villa Giulia: we might chat a little then. Oh, look at the moon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Dancing in the Moonlight<\/a>
\nBy Ottessa Moshfegh
\nIssue no. 214 (Fall 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n

No one in that flophouse even knew my name. The only faces I could ever hope to recognize were of the lovers on the other side of the gypsum. I\u2019d seen them entering their room once on my way back from the toilets. Where were they now? I wondered. Dancing in the fucking moonlight? I stumbled back to my room, lay on my bed, checked my e-mail, and, finding nothing, cried a little with loneliness, and then a little more with hope. I fell asleep naked in front of my space heater.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Moon<\/a>
\nBy Jorge Luis Borges
\nIssue no. 125 (Winter 1992)<\/em><\/p>\n

There is so much loneliness in that gold.
\nThe moon of every night is not the moon
\nThat the first Adam saw \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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