{"id":149386,"date":"2020-12-01T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=149386"},"modified":"2020-12-01T11:25:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T16:25:03","slug":"redux-a-little-bedtime-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/01\/redux-a-little-bedtime-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: A Little Bedtime Story"},"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_149387\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6088\/the-art-of-fiction-no-210-samuel-r-delany\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149387\" class=\"wp-image-149387 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/delany.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/delany.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/delany-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/delany-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-149387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuel R. Delany. Photo: Samuel R. Delany. CC BY-SA 4.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week, <em>The Paris Review<\/em> is feeling leisurely and lethargic and embracing the idea of daydreams. Read on for Samuel R. Delany\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6088\/the-art-of-fiction-no-210-samuel-r-delany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Jessi Jezewska Stevens\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7378\/honeymoon-j-jezewska-stevens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Honeymoon<\/a>,\u201d and Mary Jo Bang\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/5865\/two-poems-mary-jo-bang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Q Is the Quick<\/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-136506\" 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\/6088\/the-art-of-fiction-no-210-samuel-r-delany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Samuel R. Delany, The Art of Fiction No. 210<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 197, Summer 2011<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">DELANY<\/p>\n<p>Today I\u2019m a five-o\u2019clock-in-the-morning riser. Although I do stare at the wall a lot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p>Stare at the wall?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">DELANY<\/p>\n<p>I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently. My daughter, who recently graduated from medical school, once told me, \u201cDad, I\u2019ve never known anyone who works as hard as you. You\u2019re up at four, five o\u2019clock in the morning, you work all day, then you collapse. At nine o\u2019clock, you\u2019re in bed, then you\u2019re up the next morning at four to start all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gide says somewhere that art and crime both require leisure time to flourish. I spend a lot of time thinking, if not daydreaming. People think of me as a genre writer, and a genre writer is supposed to be prolific. Since that\u2019s how people perceive me, they have to say I\u2019m prolific. But I don\u2019t find that either complimentary or accurate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_149391\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7378\/honeymoon-j-jezewska-stevens\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149391\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/jezewska.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/jezewska.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/jezewska-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/jezewska-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-149391\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicoline Tuxen, <em>Portrait of a Woman Reading in Bed<\/em>, ca. 1890, oil on canvas, 18 x 23 1\/4&#8243;. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7378\/honeymoon-j-jezewska-stevens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Honeymoon<\/a><br \/>\nBy Jessi Jezewska Stevens<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 228, Spring 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To be fair, I can\u2019t really say that I enjoy vacations. I\u2019m on vacation all the time, so when I\u2019m away it feels like work. I am a jewelry consultant at a five-star hotel, where I tend to a nook filled with gems. All week long I daydream to the sound of heels clacking across a polished marble floor. My mind melts. I could be miles away. I could be at the beach! Occasionally the phone rings, and then there\u2019s some real excitement\u2014a guest is placing an order for a surprise. The rest is a breeze. I take lunch twice. At two, I put a sign on the door and go for a jog. <small>BE BACK SOON<\/small>. No one seems to mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_149392\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/5865\/two-poems-mary-jo-bang\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149392\" class=\"wp-image-149392 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/bang.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/bang.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/bang-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/bang-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-149392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: R-E-AL. CC BY-SA 3.0 (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0), via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/5865\/two-poems-mary-jo-bang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Q Is the Quick<\/a><br \/>\nBy Mary Jo Bang<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 186, Fall 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe quick brown fox jumps<br \/>\nOver the lazy dog\u201d: It was a little bedtime story<br \/>\nAnd it was only told us if we would \u201cbe quiet.\u201d<br \/>\nBut quiet was a difficult thing to be.<br \/>\nThe heart makes a jump-start sound.<\/p>\n<p>Each time someone comes up the steps\u2014<br \/>\nBoth their feet give off the white grate of shoe leather<br \/>\nAs it meets a stair. They wanted us also to \u201cbe happy\u201d\u2014<br \/>\nWhich was even more difficult<br \/>\nIn view of the sad fact<\/p>\n<p>That happiness is part of a pair called a \u201csmug set\u201d;<br \/>\nHappiness plus some other benignly self-satisfied state.<br \/>\nThe story, once we \u201cdeserved\u201d it, began,<br \/>\n\u201cShh, be quiet,\u201d<br \/>\nJust as the quick baby was about to leap \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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