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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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Each year, the Plimpton Prize for Fiction celebrates the work of an exceptional new writer appearing in the\u00a0Review<\/em>. In honor of this year\u2019s winner,\u00a0Chetna Maroo<\/a>, we\u2019re lifting the paywall on four previous recipients of the award, from the very first\u2014Marcia Guthridge, for her\u00a0story \u201cBones<\/a>,\u201d from issue no. 128 (Fall 1993)\u2014to last year\u2019s, Eloghosa Osunde, for \u201cGood Boy<\/a>,\u201d from issue no. 234 (Fall 2020).<\/p>\n

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

PROSE
\nBones<\/a>
\nMarcia Guthridge<\/em><\/p>\n

It is clear now that things were not quite normal with me. I was vulnerable to an epiphany. I needed a place to stand.<\/p>\n

From issue no. 128 (Fall 1993)<\/p>\n

PROSE
\nImmortality<\/a>
\nYiyun Li<\/em><\/p>\n

Decades later, movie stars will be the most studied faces among the pregnant mothers. But at this time, the dictator is the only superstar in the media, so the mother has been gazing at the dictator\u2019s face for ten months before the baby\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n

From issue no. 167 (Fall 2003)<\/p>\n

PROSE
\nThe Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp, and Carr<\/a>
\nJesse Ball<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014I saw a swan maul a child once, said Carr. The child had to be removed. To the hospital, I mean. The swan was beaten to death with a stick.<\/p>\n

Jane covered the cygnet\u2019s ears. You\u2019ll have to imagine for yourself what that looked like. I don\u2019t really know where a bird\u2019s ears are.<\/p>\n

From issue no. 183 (Winter 2007)<\/p>\n

PROSE
\nGood Boy<\/a>
\nEloghosa Osunde<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always had a problem with introductions. To me, they don\u2019t matter. It\u2019s either you know me or you don\u2019t\u2014you get? If you don\u2019t, the main thing you need to know is that I am a hustler through and through. I\u2019m that guy that gets shit done.<\/p>\n

From issue no. 234 (Fall 2020)<\/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-nine years\u2019 worth of archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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