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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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Margaret Drabble photographed by Nancy Crampton.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re thinking about family bonds, in anticipation of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. Read on for an Art of Fiction interview\u00a0with\u00a0Margaret Drabble<\/a>, Tama Janowitz\u2019s short story \u201cAmerican Dad<\/a>,\u201d Jeffrey Yang\u2019s poem \u201cAncestors<\/a>,\u201d and a portfolio of photographs, \u201cIranian Family Portraits<\/a>,\u201d by Mohsen Rastani.<\/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

Interview<\/em>
\nMargaret Drabble, The Art of Fiction No. 70<\/a>
\nIssue no. 74 (Fall-Winter 1978)<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

My sister and I are very similar. She\u2019s a novelist and our lives have been parallel in many ways. She has been an important part of my life. One\u2019s relationship with one\u2019s siblings and parents is something that you\u2019re going to write about again and again, in different forms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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GYPSIES WITH THEIR PRIZE POSSESSIONS.<\/p><\/div>\n

Fiction<\/em><\/span>
\nAmerican Dad<\/a>
\nBy Tama Jamowitz
\nIssue no. 80 (Summer 1981)<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

As we carried the bags of groceries in from the car the phone rang, my father called, telling me he was coming to Boston for a psychiatric convention. I picked up the phone and swung the receiver, with its extra long cord, over my shoulder, so that I could unload groceries while I talked. \u201cYes? Yes?\u201d I said, \u201cSaturday? Okay, sure. So how long is the psychiatric convention?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJust the weekend. It\u2019s on treating mental illness with drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, that sounds interesting,\u201d I said. Actually, I didn\u2019t see how it could be interesting for my father\u2014he didn\u2019t even believe in mental illness, let alone that it might be chemically based.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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VILLAGERS FROM THE ELBURZ MOUNTAINS.<\/p><\/div>\n

Poetry<\/em><\/span>
\nAncestors<\/a>
\nBy Jeffrey Yang
\nIssue no. 231 (Winter 2019)<\/em><\/p>\n

Chance progression<\/p>\n

Genomic drift<\/p>\n

Split-apart generations
\nof the uprooted tree<\/p>\n

abandoned the tablets for another ethos<\/p>\n

Ancestors<\/p>\n

never spoke of our ancestors<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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MRS. SEYHOON, GRANDMOTHER.<\/p><\/div>\n

Art<\/em><\/span>
\nIranian Family Portraits<\/a>
\nBy Mohsen Rastani
\nIssue no. 186 (Fall 2008)<\/em><\/p>\n

If you enjoyed the above, don\u2019t forget to\u00a0subscribe<\/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":"

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