{"id":147610,"date":"2020-09-15T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=147610"},"modified":"2020-09-15T14:46:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T18:46:05","slug":"redux-self-portrait-as-the-liberal-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/15\/redux-self-portrait-as-the-liberal-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Self-Portrait as the Liberal Arts"},"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\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_147613\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/5991\/the-art-of-fiction-no-202-ha-jin\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147613\" class=\"wp-image-147613 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jin.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jin-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jin-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-147613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ha Jin. Photo: \u00a9 Dorothy Greco.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This week at <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re going back to school. Read on for Ha Jin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/5991\/the-art-of-fiction-no-202-ha-jin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Ottessa Moshfegh\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6208\/bettering-myself-ottessa-moshfegh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bettering Myself<\/a>,\u201d and Melanie Rehak\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/292\/self-portrait-as-the-liberal-arts-melanie-rehak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Self-Portrait as the Liberal Arts<\/a>.\u201d And to celebrate the students and teachers in your life, why not gift our <a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/TPR\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=EDTNS04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special subscription deal<\/a> featuring a copy of <em>Writers at Work around the World<\/em> for 50% off?<\/p>\n<p>After you\u2019re finished, mark your calendar for our forthcoming Fall issue launch, on September 23 at 6\u00a0<small>P.M.<\/small>\u00a0EST. 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\u00a0<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>? 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, <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-135870\" 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:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/5991\/the-art-of-fiction-no-202-ha-jin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ha Jin, The Art of Fiction No. 202<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 191, Winter 2009<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p>Is it better for a writer to be out in the world working rather than in an academic setting?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">JIN<\/p>\n<p>It really depends on the individual. Some people prosper in a working environment, some people don\u2019t. But I think for a poet, teaching is a great profession. Because you don\u2019t have to spend a lot of time on poetry, you can get stimulated by interacting with others. For fiction writers I think it\u2019s hard because a novel takes so much time, so much energy, and often that\u2019s the time and energy you spend on the students\u2019 work, on teaching.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_147615\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6208\/bettering-myself-ottessa-moshfegh\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147615\" class=\"wp-image-147615 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/moshfegh2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/moshfegh2-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/moshfegh2-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/moshfegh2-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-147615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Alessandro Patelli. CC BY (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6208\/bettering-myself-ottessa-moshfegh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bettering Myself<\/a><br \/>\nBy Ottessa Moshfegh<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 204, Spring 2013<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My classroom was on the first floor, next to the nuns\u2019 lounge. I used their bathroom to puke in the mornings. One nun always dusted the toilet seat with talcum powder. Another nun plugged the sink and filled it with water. I never understood the nuns. One was old and the other was young. The young one talked to me sometimes, asked me what I would do for the long weekend, if I\u2019d see my folks over Christmas, and so forth. The old one looked the other way and twisted her robes in her fists when she saw me coming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_147616\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/292\/self-portrait-as-the-liberal-arts-melanie-rehak\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147616\" class=\"wp-image-147616 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/rehak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/rehak.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/rehak-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/rehak-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-147616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: alegri. CC BY (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/292\/self-portrait-as-the-liberal-arts-melanie-rehak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Self-Portrait as the Liberal Arts<\/a><br \/>\nBy Melanie Rehak<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 165, Spring 2003<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. <small>ARITHMETIC<\/small><\/p>\n<p>The addition of solitude untrammeled,<br \/>\none and more and more but always<br \/>\nthe inner life astray,<br \/>\nthat equation incompatibly private.<\/p>\n<p>The errors unrepenting that will not<br \/>\ncome out right.<\/p>\n<p>Tautology, tautology. What I\u2019ve said<br \/>\nin argument cannot be taken away.<br \/>\nI\u2019ve emptied my pockets of change.<\/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><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we\u2019ve lowered the paywall on Ha Jin\u2019s Art of Fiction interview, a short story by Ottessa Moshfegh, and a poem by Melanie Rehak.<\/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-147610","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: Self-Portrait as the Liberal Arts by The Paris Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This week, we\u2019ve 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