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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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Deborah Eisenberg.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re trying to separate the forest from the trees. Read on for Deborah Eisenberg\u2019s Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Gisela Elsner\u2019s short story \u201cA Pastoral<\/a>,\u201d and M\u00f3nica de la Torre\u2019s poem \u201cBoxed In<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Deborah Eisenberg, The Art of Fiction No. 218<\/a>
\nIssue no. 204 (Spring 2013)<\/em><\/p>\n

I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we\u2019re rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that\u2019s inside of you. It seems so ridiculous. Why can\u2019t I just buckle on my sword and leap on my horse and go charging through the forests?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A Pastoral<\/a>
\nBy Gisela Elsner
\nIssue no. 34 (Spring\u2013Summer 1965)<\/em><\/p>\n

My mother shook herself and scratched herself. We walked along a narrow path, through meadows with yellow flowers alternating with fields, perhaps wheat fields.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere,\u201d said my father, pointing his stick horizontally away from himself at a second forest that looked like the first, which I had taken for a fir or a pine forest or an evergreen forest of some other kind, \u201cthere we can rest.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Boxed In<\/a>
\nBy M\u00f3nica de la Torre
\nIssue no. 224 (Spring 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n

Heads up, false friends use familiarity as camouflage.
\nIn the source language deciduous<\/em> might be confused with apathy<\/em>,
\nbut nothing could be further away from desidia<\/em> than the timed impermanence of leaves.
\nYes, even forests engage in a form of family planning \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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