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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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Janet Malcolm. Photo: \u00a9 Nina Subin.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re thinking about distance, travel, and all the vacations we\u2019re not taking this summer. Read on for Janet Malcolm\u2019s Art of Nonfiction interview<\/a>, Alejandro Zambra\u2019s short story \u201cLong Distance<\/a>,\u201d and Kenneth Koch\u2019s poem \u201cTo the French Language<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Janet Malcolm, The Art of Nonfiction No. 4<\/a>
\nIssue no. 196 (Spring 2011)<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, the most obvious attraction of quotation is that it gives you a little vacation from writing\u2014the other person is doing the work. All you have to do is type.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Long Distance<\/a>
\nBy Alejandro Zambra
\nIssue no. 210 (Fall 2014)<\/em><\/p>\n

Juan Emilio was short, redheaded, dandified. He dressed with awkward elegance, as if his clothes were always new, as if his clothes wanted to say in a loud and energetic voice, I don\u2019t have anything to do with this body, I\u2019m never going to get used to this body. We made a reading list that I thought might interest him. He was enthusiastic. I liked Juan Emilio, but the warmth I felt toward him was tempered by an ambiguous, guilty feeling. What kind of person could allow himself, when he was of working age, such a long European vacation? What had he done all that time, besides take his grandchildren to all the ice-cream parlors in Paris?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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To the French Language<\/a>
\nBy Kenneth Koch
\nIssue no. 158 (Spring\u2013Summer 2001)<\/em><\/p>\n

I needed to find you and, once having found you, to keep you
\nYou who could make me a physical Larousse
\nOf everyday living, you who would present me to Gilberte
\nAnd Anna and Sonia, you by whom I could be a surrealist
\nAnd a dadaist and almost a fake of Racine and of Moli\u00e8re. I was hiding
\nThe heavenly dolor you planted in my heart:
\nThat I would never completely have you.
\nI wanted to take you with me on long vacations
\nAlways giving you so many kisses, ma fran\u00e7aise<\/em>\u2014
\nAcross rocky mountains, valleys, and lakes
\nAnd I wanted it to be as if
\nNous faisions ce voyage pour I\u2019\u00e9temit\u00e9<\/em>
\nEt non pas uniquement pour la br\u00e8ve duree d\u2019une ann\u00e9e boursiere en France<\/em> \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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