{"id":4505,"date":"2010-09-21T10:44:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T14:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2010-10-27T13:31:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T17:31:41","slug":"april-ayers-lawson-on-virgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/21\/april-ayers-lawson-on-virgin\/","title":{"rendered":"April Ayers Lawson on “Virgin”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"April Ayers Lawson\u2019s short story \u201cVirgin\u201d appears in our new issue<\/a>. It is Lawson\u2019s first appearance in a magazine with national circulation. Last week she was kind enough to answer a few questions from her home in Greenville, South Carolina.<\/em><\/p>\n

In \u201cVirgin\u201d you describe sexual frustration and desire very convincingly\u2014and very specifically\u2014from a man\u2019s point of view. How did you do it? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Close observation. Male frustration seems to me more focused, more linear, than female frustration. This interests me a lot. Also, I enjoy asking men about what they think it means to be a man. I like to hear about the women in their lives\u2014how they view their mothers, sisters, girlfriends, wives. I like to try to understand what it means to be \u201cmanly,\u201d what it means for a man to think he’s failed to be manly. The more I understand men, the more I understand women.<\/p>\n

Also, when a story is about women\u2014I consider the story to be mostly about the\u00a0women\u2014it makes more sense to me to feel them from the perspective of a man.<\/p>\n

Did you ever feel out of your depth?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The perspective came naturally. If it didn’t I’d have aborted. When I write I\u2019m doing it as an act of discovery. Also to get high. What I\u2019m writing should feel at least as real to me as what\u2019s physically around me. It should rise out of and also sustain a heightened sense of emotional reality. Otherwise, no point, no pleasure.<\/p>\n

The stories of yours that I have read are all set in the South among Evangelical Christians. Do you write with a Southern Christian reader in mind?<\/strong> <\/p>\n

The answer is really short: no.<\/p>\n

No, no, no.<\/p>\n

I write for the person I\u2019m most interested in at the time. Not romantically, I should clarify. It\u2019s beyond that. That person could be dead already. But most of the time he or she is someone alive, someone I know. It’s not that I\u2019m tailoring the story to that person\u2014just that I feel he or she will most understand what I’m trying to say, because what I\u2019m coming to understand is in part inspired by knowing him\/her. I do get shy about it. In one case, I sent a story to my \u201creader\u201d and beforehand wrote her a note about what a failure it was. I didn\u2019t tell her it was for her. And then with \u201cVirgin,\u201d I didn\u2019t even show it to him\u2014decided it was too much pressure, that if he didn’t like it I couldn’t stand the disappointment, the potential loneliness, of that\u2014but he wound up seeing it anyway. Happy results.<\/p>\n

Are there any books or stories that you return to for inspiration?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think people should read Goethe\u2019s Theory of Colours<\/em> because it defamiliarizes the phenomena of light and color. Reading it straight through gets tedious. But in small doses it\u2019s thrilling. Here you have a man obsessed with vision, with how and why he is able to see, from the moment he wakes up until he goes to sleep. For example:<\/p>\n

If in the morning, on waking, when the eye is very susceptible, we look intently at the bars of a window relieved against the dawning sky, and then shut our eyes or look towards a totally dark place, we shall see a dark cross on a light ground before us for some time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, sometimes it\u2019s so nonchalantly sexy, it\u2019s wild:<\/p>\n

I had entered an inn towards evening, and, as a well-favoured girl, with a brilliantly fair complexion, black hair, and a scarlet bodice, came into the room, I looked attentively at her as she stood before me at some distance in half shadow. As she presently afterwards turned away, I saw on the white wall, which was now before me, a black face surrounded with a bright light, while the dress of the perfectly distinct figure appeared of a beautiful sea-green.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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