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Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review\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\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ha Jin. Photo: \u00a9 Dorothy Greco.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re using our olfactory senses. Read on for Ha Jin\u2019s Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Fleur Jaeggy\u2019s story \u201cAgnes<\/a>,\u201d and May Swenson\u2019s poem \u201cDaffodildo<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door.<\/p>\n

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Ha Jin, The Art of Fiction No. 202<\/a>
\nIssue no. 191 (Winter 2009)<\/em><\/p>\n

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INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n

What do you remember most about your arrival in the United States?<\/p>\n

JIN<\/p>\n

There was a chemical smell here. It was very alien, very overwhelming. Also a lot of people wore perfume. I know a woman who came here from China and said she couldn\u2019t stop vomiting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Photo: Sam Hood. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Agnes<\/a>
\nBy Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Gini Alhadeff
\nIssue no. 220 (Spring 2017)<\/em><\/p>\n

Often, when I left the office, I\u2019d go into some shops. I looked at everything meticulously. The small bottles of perfume, the jewelry. The cameras. I felt like stealing. For her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Photo: Willem van de Poll. CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Daffodildo<\/a>
\nBy May Swenson
\nIssue no. 127 (Summer 1993)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0A daffodil from Emily\u2019s lot
\nI lay beside her headstone
\non the first day of May.
\nI brought
\nanother with me, threaded
\nthrough my buttonhole, the spawn
\nof ancestor she planted
\nwhere, today,
\nI trod her lawn.
\nA yellow small decanter
\nof her perfume, hermit-wild
\nand without a stopper,
\nnext to her stone I filed
\nto give her back her property\u2014
\nit\u2019s well it cannot spill.
\nLolling on my jacket,
\nEmily\u2019s other daffodil \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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