{"id":141641,"date":"2019-12-24T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=141641"},"modified":"2019-12-17T17:24:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T22:24:21","slug":"redux-the-seasons-roll-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/24\/redux-the-seasons-roll-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: The Seasons Roll Over"},"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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J.\u2009G. Ballard. Photo: Fay Godwin.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re in a holiday kind of mood. Read on for J.\u2009G. Ballard\u2019s Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Ottessa Moshfegh\u2019s short story \u201cDancing in the Moonlight<\/a>,\u201d and Diane di Prima\u2019s poem \u201cRondeau for the Yule<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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J.\u2009G. Ballard, The Art of Fiction No. 85<\/a>
\nIssue no. 94 (Winter 1984)<\/em><\/p>\n

I have a sense of certain gathering obsessions and roles, certain corners of the field where the next stage of the hunt will be carried on. I know that if I don\u2019t write, say on holiday, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Until Christmas money from my father arrived, I would have a hundred dollars cash in my wallet, plus a fifteen-dollar gift card to Burger King that Mark had given me for Hanukkah as a joke. He had gone off to Vermont with his wife to be with her family. Everyone else was home with their parents, or on glamping trips in Joshua Tree or sunning themselves in Maui or Cabo or Puerto Rico with their girlfriends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Rondeau for the Yule<\/a>
\nBy Diane di Prima
\nIssue no. 39 (Fall 1966)<\/em><\/p>\n

Another escaping & you are not so dumb
\nThat you didn\u2019t see that in it.
\nThere are Xmas decorations in the windows.
\nFour Christmases ago or the summer before
\nand mostly ephemeral.
\nThe seasons roll over it
\nflattening it out.
\nStill, a flicker of interest: what a funny hat
\nYou\u2019re wearing \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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