{"id":149142,"date":"2020-11-17T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=149142"},"modified":"2020-11-17T14:56:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T19:56:51","slug":"redux-you-would-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/17\/redux-you-would-if\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: You Would If"},"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_148840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_148999\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_149143\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/1032\/the-art-of-fiction-no-155-jose-saramago\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149143\" class=\"wp-image-149143 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/saramago.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/saramago.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/saramago-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/saramago-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-149143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jos\u00e9 Saramago. Photo: Sampinz at Italian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This week, <em>The Paris Review<\/em> is celebrating the birthdays of three different writers. Read on for Jos\u00e9 Saramago\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/1032\/the-art-of-fiction-no-155-jose-saramago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Isaac Bashevis Singer\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7377\/the-murderer-isaac-bashevis-singer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Murderer<\/a>,\u201d and Margaret Atwood\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2268\/frogless-margaret-atwood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frogless<\/a>.\u201d<\/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>?\u00a0Or take advantage of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/tpr\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=GRNPREM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new subscription bundle<\/a>, bringing you four issues of the print magazine, access to our full sixty-seven-year digital archive, and our new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/store.theparisreview.org\/collections\/accessories\/products\/our-new-green-and-lavender-tote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TriBeCa tote<\/a>\u00a0for only $69 (plus free shipping!). 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-136438\" 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\/1032\/the-art-of-fiction-no-155-jose-saramago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jos\u00e9 Saramago, The Art of Fiction No. 155<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 149, Winter 1998<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the end, I am quite normal. I don\u2019t have odd habits. I don\u2019t dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don\u2019t talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer\u2019s block, all those things that we hear about writers. I don\u2019t have any of those problems, but I do have problems just like any other person doing any other type of work. Sometimes things do not come out as I want them to, or they don\u2019t come out at all. When things do not come out as well as I would have liked, I have to resign myself to accepting them as they are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7377\/the-murderer-isaac-bashevis-singer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-149145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/singer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/singer.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/singer-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/singer-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\/7377\/the-murderer-isaac-bashevis-singer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Murderer<\/a><br \/>\nBy Isaac Bashevis Singer<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 228, Spring 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They all knew him although no one in Ba\u0142t\u00f3w spoke to him and he spoke to no one. Maryan Skiba had served a prison term of eight years for killing his girlfriend, Zocha, because he caught her in bed with a city hall official. Maryan was a fisherman. After his release from the Lublin prison he returned to his former trade. There was a lake around Ba\u0142t\u00f3w that had carp, pike, and tench. It belonged to a nobleman who permitted the fishermen to fish there for a fee. All day Thursday, and Friday until noon, Maryan would stand in the marketplace beside his tub of live fish. It was impossible to haggle with him, as he had almost ceased speaking. He muttered the cost and no one could get another word out of him. His price was slightly lower than the other fishmongers\u2019 and he generally sold his catch. Sometimes when there were more fish than customers, the others lowered their prices, but not Maryan. It was said that he threw the unsold fish back into the water.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2268\/frogless-margaret-atwood\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-149147\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/atwood2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/atwood2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/atwood2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/atwood2-768x512.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\/2268\/frogless-margaret-atwood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frogless<\/a><br \/>\nBy Margaret Atwood<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 117, Winter 1990<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sore trees cast their leaves<br \/>\ntoo early. Each twig pinching<br \/>\nshut like a jabbed clam.<br \/>\nSoon there will be a hot gauze of snow<br \/>\nsearing the roots.<\/p>\n<p>Booze in the spring runoff,<br \/>\npure antifreeze;<br \/>\nthe stream worms drunk and burning.<br \/>\nTadpoles wrecked in the puddles.<\/p>\n<p>Here comes an eel with a dead eye<br \/>\ngrown from its cheek.<br \/>\nWould you cook it?<br \/>\nYou would if \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><em>. 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