{"id":155365,"date":"2021-10-19T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=155365"},"modified":"2021-10-19T13:37:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T17:37:58","slug":"redux-the-subway-back-and-forth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2021\/10\/19\/redux-the-subway-back-and-forth\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: The Subway Back and Forth"},"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_155372\" style=\"width: 336px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/4013\/the-art-of-fiction-no-47-eudora-welty?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=dc43aa735c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-dc43aa735c-56131441&amp;mc_cid=dc43aa735c&amp;mc_eid=befe0faba8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-2.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-155372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welty, ca. 1962, Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week at\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re waiting for the bus and descending into the subway. Read on for Eudora Welty\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=a65b99fc6a&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Da65b99fc6a%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1634657612636000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGu9pRAirzu-R15zhoUCM6Lmb-xHQ\">Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Gish Jen\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=fc7490317e&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Dfc7490317e%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1634657612636000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE5Jy3Vp0zKWtMRLR6SgeOyQ_3IjQ\">Amaryllis<\/a>,\u201d and Frank O\u2019Hara\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=543abe4b33&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D543abe4b33%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1634657612636000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFHN0Xg4obzy0sIEb_z1xb4lbpqfg\">Corresponding Foreignly<\/a>,\u201d paired with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=e3caf910ca&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3De3caf910ca%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1634657612636000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF9a9KB_-XGwzIGHGmMUEBPK0vHUA\">portfolio of photographs<\/a>\u00a0by G.\u2009M.\u2009B. Akash.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=f814f32b90&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Df814f32b90%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1634657612636000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFqknnwSr03qw71dlVH3_LXFELJLA\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door.<\/p>\n<p><em>Interview<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=095d8ebdc0&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D095d8ebdc0%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1634657612636000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHNtDPJlSYPyLZjFUqpZf7ylUaLpQ\">Eudora Welty, The Art of Fiction No. 47<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 55 (Fall 1972)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Once you have heard certain expressions, sentences, you almost never forget them. It\u2019s like sending a bucket down the well and it always comes up full. You don\u2019t know you\u2019ve remembered, but you have. And you listen for the right word, in the present, and you hear it. Once you\u2019re into a story everything seems to apply\u2014what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you\u2019re writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_155366\" style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/5999\/nothing-to-hold-on-to-g-m-b-akash\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155366\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed.png 639w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-155366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the series \u201cNothing to Hold On To,\u201d by G.\u2009M.\u2009B. Akash<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Fiction<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=a35061624f&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Da35061624f%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1634657612637000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHKi_qhRLbPVId81Ja8npOJdFk_RA\">Amaryllis<\/a><br \/>\nBy Gish Jen<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 179 (Winter 2006)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Amaryllis felt annoyed at Tara, at Uncle Jeff, at herself even, as she found that she had begun to like the ritual of leaving the office. She liked needing to leave the way so many of her coworkers did\u2014all the time it seemed\u2014to bring their kids to the doctor, pick up a birthday cake, something. She liked the No. 7 train and the people on it; she liked waiting at the platform, on the wooden bench facing the ticket booth. The Flushing stop was the last stop of the line. Why did she like even that?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_155370\" style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/5999\/nothing-to-hold-on-to-g-m-b-akash\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155370\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-1-1.png 639w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-1-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-155370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the series \u201cNothing to Hold On To,\u201d by G.\u2009M.\u2009B. Akash<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Poetry<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=eeab4b5045&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Deeab4b5045%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1634657612637000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHiIRp4kKugXtemyTvUvMGwmSfBdA\">Corresponding Foreignly<\/a><br \/>\nBy Frank O\u2019Hara<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 69 (Spring 1977)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">2<br \/>\nCertain eases appeal to me more than the flowering quinces<br \/>\nand your black pear branches dripping white petals.<br \/>\nI\u2019m not a pastoral type any more, I take the subway<br \/>\nback and forth from beds to days or bed-in-the-day-time<br \/>\nand if pleased am a dirty flower at the end of ragtagging<br \/>\nit. \u201cI hear you were downtown last night. It was just like<br \/>\nold times.\u2019\u2019 What a thing to say in an elevator. I\u2019d feel<br \/>\nrather more assured, though, if we were rolling in a field<br \/>\nscreaming above the records and the Japanese lanterns.<br \/>\nI hate the country and its bells and its photographs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_155371\" style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/5999\/nothing-to-hold-on-to-g-m-b-akash\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155371\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-2-1.png 639w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/unnamed-2-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-155371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the series \u201cNothing to Hold On To,\u201d by G.\u2009M.\u2009B. Akash<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Art<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/art-photography\/5999\/nothing-to-hold-on-to-g-m-b-akash?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=dc43aa735c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-dc43aa735c-56131441&amp;mc_cid=dc43aa735c&amp;mc_eid=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D0f3746438e%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1634657612637000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHl8OQX7M_Z8gnAMcA4aG_hL9qfJQ\">Nothing To Hold On To<\/a><br \/>\nBy G.\u2009M.\u2009B. Akash<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 192 (Spring 2010)<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>If you enjoyed the above, don\u2019t forget to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/flex\/TPR\/MAIN\/\" 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-eight years\u2019 worth of archives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve lowered the paywall on Eudora Welty\u2019s Art of Fiction interview, fiction by Gish Jen, poetry by Frank O\u2019Hara, and a portfolio of photography by G. M. B. 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