{"id":147454,"date":"2020-09-08T15:11:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=147454"},"modified":"2020-09-08T15:32:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:32:53","slug":"redux-a-ball-of-waxy-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/08\/redux-a-ball-of-waxy-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: A Ball of Waxy Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>\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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dkY3AH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_147461\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6366\/art-of-fiction-no-227-lydia-davis\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147461\" class=\"wp-image-147461 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/lydia-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/lydia-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/lydia-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/lydia-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-147461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia Davis in Paris, 1973.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week at <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re celebrating the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">issue no. 234<\/a> and reading work from Fall issue contributors who have appeared in the magazine before. Read on for Lydia Davis\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6366\/art-of-fiction-no-227-lydia-davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Margaret Atwood\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/3212\/bodily-harm-margaret-atwood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bodily Harm<\/a>,\u201d and Yusef Komunyakaa\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/1236\/memory-cave-yusef-komunyakaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Memory Cave<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After you\u2019re finished, mark your calendar for our forthcoming Fall issue launch, on September 23 at 6 <small>P.M.<\/small> EST. This free virtual event will feature several Fall issue contributors reading from their work: Rabih Alameddine, Lydia Davis, Emma Hine, and Eloghosa Osunde. For more information and to RSVP, please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">events page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/TPR\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=ENAPRFX&amp;type=S&amp;gift_key=TESTFXG&amp;utm_source=ReduxBlogpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0and read the entire archive? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door. And for as long as we\u2019re flattening the curve,\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0will be sending out a new weekly newsletter, The Art of Distance, featuring unlocked archival selections, dispatches from the\u00a0<em>Daily<\/em>, and efforts from our peer organizations. Read the latest edition\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/theparisreview.org\/the-art-of-distance-no-135726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, and then\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=35491ea532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign up for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6366\/art-of-fiction-no-227-lydia-davis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lydia Davis, The Art of Fiction No. 227<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 212, Spring 2015<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To me a short story is a defined traditional form, the sort of thing that Hemingway wrote, or Katherine Mansfield or Chekhov. It is longer, more \u00addeveloped, with narrated scenes and dialogue and so on. You could call some of my stories proper short stories. Most of the others I wouldn\u2019t call short \u00adstories, even though many are very short. Some you could call \u00adpoems\u2014not many.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/3212\/bodily-harm-margaret-atwood\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-147462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/atwood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/atwood.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/atwood-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/atwood-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/3212\/bodily-harm-margaret-atwood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bodily Harm<\/a><br \/>\nBy Margaret Atwood<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 81, Fall 1981<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who knows what goes on in their heads? said Jocasta. They were well into the second carafe of wine. Not me, I\u2019ve stopped even trying. It used to be women that were so mysterious, remember? Well, not any more, now it\u2019s men. Me, I\u2019m an open book. All I want is a good enough time, no hassle, a few laughs, a little how-you-say romance, I\u2019ll take the violins if they\u2019re going around, dim lights, roses, fantastic sex, let <em>them<\/em> scrape the pate off the rug in the morning, is that too much to ask? Are they afraid of my first name or something, is that it? Remember when we all batted our eyes and pretended not to know what dirty jokes meant and crossed our legs a lot and they chased around like pigs after a truffle and God did they complain. Frigid, cock teaser, professional virgin, remember those? Remember panty girdles, remember <em>falsies<\/em>, remember Peter Pan brassieres, in the front seat after the formal, with your wires digging into his chest?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/1236\/memory-cave-yusef-komunyakaa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-147464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cave.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cave.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cave-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cave-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/1236\/memory-cave-yusef-komunyakaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Memory Cave<\/a><br \/>\nBy Yusef Komunyakaa<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 144, Fall 1997<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A tallow worked into a knot<br \/>\nof rawhide, with a ball of waxy light<br \/>\ntied to a stick, the boy<br \/>\nscooted through a secret mouth<br \/>\nof the cave, pulled by the flambeau<br \/>\nin his hand. He could see<br \/>\nthe gaze of agate eyes<br \/>\n&amp; wished for the forbidden<br \/>\nplains of bison &amp; wolf, years<br \/>\nfrom the fermented honey<br \/>\n&amp; musty air \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>And to read more from the\u00a0<\/em>Paris Review<em>\u00a0archives, make sure to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/TPR\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=ENAPRFX&amp;type=S&amp;gift_key=TESTFXG&amp;utm_source=ReduxBlogpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe<\/a>! In addition to four print issues per year, you\u2019ll also receive complete digital access to our sixty-seven years\u2019 worth of archives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we\u2019ve lowered the paywall on Lydia Davis\u2019s Art of Fiction interview, a story by Margaret Atwood, and a poem by Yusef Komunyakaa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redux"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Redux: A Ball of Waxy Light by The Paris Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This week, we\u2019ve lowered the paywall on 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