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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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Photo copyright \u00a9 Laura Owens.<\/p><\/div>\n

In honor of the longtime friendship between BOMB<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Review<\/em>, we\u2019re offering a\u00a0bundled subscription<\/a>\u00a0to both magazines until the end of February. Save 20% on a year of the best in art and literature\u2014and for your weekly archive reading, a selection of authors that the two of us have each published over the years.<\/p>\n

Interview<\/em>
\nGary Indiana, The Art of Fiction No. 250<\/a>
\nIssue no. 238 (Winter 2021)<\/em><\/p>\n

I was desperate to write a novel, but I didn\u2019t have a story. Whenever I tried to write fiction it was all about my own inner bullshit. Writing about films and architecture and books was never the end point of what I wanted to do, but it forced me to get outside my own head, to describe physical objects and action. And then somebody handed me a story.<\/p>\n

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Fiction<\/em><\/span>
\nSecond Dog<\/a>
\nBy Kate Zambreno
\nIssue no. 228 (Spring 2019)<\/em><\/p>\n

When I think about getting a second dog, I think about what we might name the dog. It\u2019s exciting that we won\u2019t have to disguise naming the dog after a writer or artist. Our dog is named Genet, and I fantasize about a little terrier named Violette Leduc, so if our Genet ignores her or humps her, I can pretend I\u2019m enacting some literary gossip, as Violette Leduc always abjected herself to Genet in her desire for his friendship. With babies, there is more pressure to at least disguise one\u2019s pretensions.<\/p>\n

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Poetry<\/em><\/span>
\nLearning Persian<\/a>
\nBy Solmaz Sharif
\nIssue no. 230 (Fall 2019)<\/em><\/p>\n

deek-teh
\ndeek-tah-tor
\nbehn-zeen
\ndee-seh-pleen
\neh-pe-deh-mi
\nfahn-te-zi
\nmu-zik
\nbahnk
\nmah-de-mah-zel
\nsees-tem
\nvah-nil
\nvee-la
\nvee-roos
\nahm-pee-ree-ah-lizm
\ndoh-see-eh
\noh-toh-ree-te<\/p>\n

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Art<\/em><\/span>
\nWalton Ford and Ryan McGinley<\/a>
\nBy Waris Ahluwalia
\nIssue no. 201 (Summer 2012)<\/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

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