{"id":141259,"date":"2019-12-03T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T18:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=141259"},"modified":"2019-12-03T12:21:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T17:21:31","slug":"redux-your-name-means-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/03\/redux-your-name-means-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Your Name Means Open<\/em>"},"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, we\u2019re reading pieces that are featured on The Paris Review Podcast<\/em>, which just wrapped up its second season<\/a>. Read on for Tennessee Williams\u2019s Art of Theater interview<\/a>, Danez Smith\u2019s poem \u201cmy bitch!<\/a>,\u201d and Philip Roth\u2019s short story \u201cThe Conversion of the Jews<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tennessee Williams, The Art of Theater No. 5<\/a>
\nIssue no. 81 (Fall 1981)<\/em><\/p>\n

I now look back at periods of my life, and I think, Was that really me<\/em>? Was I doing those things? I don\u2019t feel any continuity in my life. It is as if my life were segments that are separate and do not connect. From one period to another it has all happened behind the curtain of work. And I just peek out from behind the curtain now and then and find myself on totally different terrain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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my bitch!<\/a>
\nBy Danez Smith
\nIssue no. 228 (Spring 2019)<\/em><\/p>\n

after Nicole Sealey<\/em><\/p>\n

o bitch. my good bitch. bitch my heart.
\ndream bitch. bitch my salve. bitch my order.
\nbitch my willowed stream. bitch my legend.
\nbitch like a door. your name means open<\/em>
\nin the language of my getting by. bitch sesame \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Conversion of the Jews<\/a>
\nBy Philip Roth
\nIssue no. 18 (Spring 1958)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re a real one for opening your mouth in the first place,\u201d Itzie said. \u201cWhat do you open your mouth all the time for?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t bring it up, Itz, I didn\u2019t,\u201d Ozzie said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you care about Jesus Christ for anyway?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t bring up Jesus Christ. He did. I didn\u2019t even know what he was talking about. Jesus is historical, he kept saying. Jesus is historical.\u201d Ozzie mimicked the monumental voice of Rabbi Binder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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