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Five days before the Spring issue<\/a> went to press, I found myself perched on a sofa in the <\/span>Review<\/span><\/i>\u2019s Chelsea office, listening as Jamaica Kincaid and Darryl Pinckney put the finishing touches on a conversation they\u2019d begun eight years earlier. By then, my colleagues and I had pored over hundreds of pages of transcripts for Kincaid\u2019s Art of Fiction<\/a> interview, and yet, that Monday afternoon, as the two writers went back over the stories she\u2019d told him about her childhood on Antigua, her adventures as a young journalist in seventies New York, and her life as a writer, new details kept emerging. She was a backup singer in Holly Woodlawn\u2019s band before being replaced by Debbie Harry? She drafted <\/span>Annie John<\/span><\/i> out loud in the bath while pregnant with her first child? <\/span><\/p>\n

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JAMAICA KINCAID AND DARRYL PINCKNEY IN THE PARIS REVIEW<\/em> OFFICES. PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHANIE BLACK.<\/p><\/div>\n

Among the greatest pleasures of the <\/span>Review<\/span><\/i>\u2019s Writers at Work<\/a> series is the opportunity to eavesdrop on a revered author speaking intimately\u2014on a conversation that feels at once spontaneous and timeless. We experienced a similar pleasure while first reading many of the pieces that appear in the Spring issue. The manic highs and lows of an all-consuming sexual affair, recorded by Annie Ernaux in a diary<\/a> she would later use to compose <\/span>Simple Passion<\/span><\/i>. Jane Gardam\u2019s hard-won sense<\/a>, confided to Sadie Stein, of the importance of comfort and happiness to literature. Ordinary household objects made luminous in Ishion Hutchinson\u2019s elegy<\/a> for his grandmother and her home by the sea in Portland, Jamaica. The accidental uncovering, in a scene<\/a> from Will Arbery\u2019s play <\/span>Corsicana<\/span><\/i>, of a painful, long-repressed teenage memory. A glimpse<\/a> into the private world of a middle-aged woman scraping by in northeastern Texas. A love scene<\/a> told in the language of an IKEA instruction manual. <\/span><\/p>\n

The cover image, by Andrew Cranston, a favorite of our art director, Na Kim, was painted on a hardback book especially for the <\/span>Review<\/span><\/i>. For me, it captures something about this strange season we are in, when hope feels almost painful. \u201cSpring like a gun to the head,\u201d Dorothea Lasky writes in one<\/a> of three poems she contributed to the issue. \u201cGreen how I want you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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