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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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When we at the Review<\/em> first read Sterling HolyWhiteMountain\u2019s story \u201cThis Then Is a Song, We Are Singing<\/a><\/b>,\u201d which is published in our new Winter issue, we found ourselves in thrall to the story\u2019s narrator\u2014who,\u00a0for all of his rage and confusion, self-justification and delusion, is undeniably charismatic. Inspired by the pleasure we took in spending time in his company (at least\u00a0on the page),\u00a0we hunted through the archives for some of the most memorable\u2014which is to say, memorably off-kilter\u2014voices the Review<\/em> has published over the years. Inevitably, this led us to our Art of Fiction interview<\/a><\/b> with Marguerite Young, whose hallucinatory novel\u00a0Miss Macintosh, My Darling<\/a><\/b><\/em> is, in her words, \u201can inquest into the illusions individuals suffer from.\u201d From the same issue, no. 71 (Fall 1977), there are\u00a0two poems<\/a><\/b> by Erica Jong in which a lonely narrator putters around, talking to her cat. We\u2019ve also been sucked into John Edgar Wideman\u2019s stream of consciousness in \u201cSightings<\/a><\/b>,\u201d and fascinated by the inscrutable portraits of Llyn Foulkes<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n

If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, poems, and portfolios, why not\u00a0subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0The Paris Review<\/em>? You\u2019ll\u00a0get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door.<\/p>\n

Interview<\/em>
\nMarguerite Young, The Art of Fiction No. 66<\/a><\/b>
\nIssue no. 71 (Fall 1977)<\/em><\/p>\n

It was the unconscious that interested me. I say that I am not interested in people, but I am interested in the bizarre and in people at an edge. I am interested in extreme statements about people because that is where drama is most apparent.<\/p>\n

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Fiction<\/em><\/span>
\nSightings<\/a><\/b>
\nBy John Edgar Wideman
\nIssue no. 171 (Fall 2004)<\/em><\/p>\n

You can\u2019t inch closer to what\u2019s unreachable even when it\u2019s pissing in your face. No pilgrim has returned and reported how it feels to die. That\u2019s the dirty joke hunters go to the mountains to laugh at. Werewolf with other werewolves, furry clothes, furry faces, stomachs bloated with jelly doughnuts and beer.<\/p>\n

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Poetry<\/em><\/span>
\nTwo Poems<\/a><\/b>
\nBy Erica Jong
\nIssue no. 71\u00a0(Fall 1977) <\/em><\/p>\n

I am a corpse who moves a pen that writes.
\nI am a vessel for a voice that echoes.
\nI write a novel & annihilate whole forests.
\nI rearrange the cosmos by an inch.<\/p>\n

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Art<\/em>
\nPortraits<\/a><\/b>
\nBy Llyn Foulkes
\nIssue no. 100 (Summer-Fall 1986)<\/em><\/p>\n

If you enjoyed the above, don\u2019t forget to\u00a0subscribe<\/a>! In\u00a0addition to four print issues per year, you\u2019ll also receive complete digital access to our sixty-eight years\u2019 worth of archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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