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Meet Me in Treasondale, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
March 27, 2014
On the Shelf
Before there was
MFA vs. NYC
,
there was Flannery O’Connor, discussing the merits of an MFA program
: “It can put [a writer] in the way of experienced writers and literary critics, people who are usually able to tell him after not too long a time whether he should go on writing or enroll immediately in the school of Dentistry.”
The love letters of a young Ian Fleming
reveal him to be a jealous, sadistic romantic: “I would have to whip you and you would cry and I don’t want that. I only want for you to be happy. But I would also like to hurt you because you have earned it and in order to tame you like a little wild animal. So be careful, you.”
Beware intemperance! Exhumed from the Library of Congress: a 1908 map depicting “
the negative consequences of drinking and ungodliness, using an imaginary set of railroad lines, states, towns, and landmarks
.” Highlights: Selfishburg, Hypocrisy Heights, Lewd Castle, Whiskeyton, Gossip Center, Presumptionville, Treasondale, and Embezzle City.
John Coltrane’s tenor saxophone will
join the collection of the American History Museum
. (This year also marks the fiftieth anniversary of his seminal album
A Love Supreme
.)
On CNN’s coverage of Flight 370
: “This willingness to fixate on one big story and sensationalize it reflects CNN’s growing embrace of the phenomenology of news. It’s an approach that emphasizes the viewer’s experience of singular news events as much, if not more than, the news itself.”
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