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In March,<\/em>\u00a0The Paris Review\u00a0launched<\/em>\u00a0The Art of Distance, a newsletter highlighting unlocked archive pieces that resonate with the staff of<\/em>\u00a0the magazine<\/em>, quarantine-appropriate writing on the<\/em>\u00a0Daily, resources from our peer organizations,<\/em>\u00a0and more. Read Emily Nemens\u2019s introductory letter\u00a0here<\/a>, and find the latest unlocked archive pieces below.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis installment of The Art of Distance is inspired by the past week\u2019s #BlackoutBestsellerList campaign, which encouraged book buyers to purchase two books by Black authors in order to fill best-seller lists with Black voices. Unlocked this week are seven pieces from recent issues of <\/em>The Paris Review by Black writers who have also recently published books. If you enjoy this writing, we hope that you will consider buying these authors\u2019 novels, story collections, and nonfiction works. We wish you a week of meaningful reading and hope you stay safe, sane, and engaged.\u201d \u2014Craig Morgan Teicher, Digital Director<\/em><\/p>\n

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Read these stories, poems, and essays by TPR<\/em> authors, and then check out their new, recent, and forthcoming works linked below.<\/p>\n

Venita Blackburn\u2019s \u201cFam<\/a>\u201d (issue no. 226, Fall 2018) is a haunting glimpse into the social media life of a teen whose past is shadowed by family violence. Her debut story collection, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes<\/a><\/em>, won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize for fiction, and Blackburn was a finalist for both the PEN<\/small>\/Bingham Prize for debut fiction and the Young Lions Award from the New York Public Library. <\/p>\n

\u201cWitness<\/a>,\u201d by Jamel Brinkley (issue no. 233, Summer 2020), is a sobering examination of race and health care in America. Brinkley\u2019s story collection A Lucky Man<\/em><\/a> was a finalist for the National Book Award.<\/p>\n

Two unpublished poems by Lucille Clifton, \u201cpoem to my yellow coat<\/a>\u201d and \u201cbouquet<\/a>,\u201d appear in issue no. 233, Summer 2020. They\u2019re drawn from a group of unpublished poems that will be included in How to Carry Water<\/em><\/a>, a career-spanning selection of Clifton\u2019s work due out in September.<\/p>\n

Rachel Eliza Griffiths\u2019s poem \u201cHunger<\/a>\u201d (issue no. 232, Spring 2020) is a searing elegy for the poet\u2019s mother that wrestles with and takes inspiration from a kind of magical thinking. The poem comes from her just-published collection of poetry and photography, Seeing the Body<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Told largely in rapid-fire dialogue, J.\u2009M. Holmes\u2019s \u201cWhat\u2019s Wrong with You? What\u2019s Wrong with Me?<\/a>\u201d (issue no. 221, Summer 2017, and The Paris Review Podcast<\/em> Episode 16<\/a>) barrels toward a shocking revelation about racism and sex. The story appears in his first book, How Are You Going to Save Yourself<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Mitchell S. Jackson\u2019s essay \u201cExodus<\/a>\u201d (issue no. 226, Fall 2018) begins in \u201cthe wilderness of my hometown\u201d and ends at the foot of the stairs of \u201cwhat would be my new home.\u201d It opens into a story of life marked by violence and addiction that continues in his memoir, Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family<\/em><\/a>, which was named one of NPR\u2019s favorite books of 2019.<\/p>\n

The protagonist of Way\u00e9tu Moore\u2019s \u201cGbessa<\/a>\u201d (issue no. 225, Summer 2018) is deemed a \u201ccursed\u201d child by the people in her town and must suffer their derision and blame for circumstances beyond their control. \u201cGbessa\u201d became the first chapter of Moore\u2019s debut novel, She Would Be King<\/em><\/a>. Read an excerpt<\/a> of her new memoir, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women<\/em><\/a>, on the Daily<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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