{"id":100101,"date":"2016-07-06T09:15:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T13:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=100101"},"modified":"2016-07-08T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T13:50:25","slug":"the-fine-art-of-american-small-talk-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/06\/the-fine-art-of-american-small-talk-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fine Art of American Small Talk, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_100103\" style=\"width: 605px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/friendlyconversation.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-100103\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100103\" class=\"wp-image-100103 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/friendlyconversation.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/friendlyconversation.png 595w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/friendlyconversation-300x217.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-100103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Ameal Wilson, <i>Friendly Conversation<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in poetry as panhandling: Rowan McCabe pitches himself as \u201cthe world\u2019s first door-to-door poet.\u201d (An insult to the many lyrically inclined encyclopedia salesmen who once roamed this earth.) McCabe is based in the UK and will likely never make it to the U.S., where poets are routinely shot. But maybe you\u2019d like to pay him a visit: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2016\/jul\/06\/door-to-door-poet-glastonbury-rowan-mccabe\" target=\"_blank\">McCabe is more usually found on the streets of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, writing bespoke verse for whoever happens to answer the buzzer when he calls<\/a>. He\u2019s penned poems about birds and love and parenting; one to remember a couple\u2019s first date, another for someone\u2019s dog. He composed the piece \u2018To Amy, Sitting Her Final Policing Exam\u2019 for a future constable and Gospel for a woman he nicknamed \u2018Agnostic Ana.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is host to one of the biggest races in America, which means that its parking lot is, at least one day a year, a very good place to sell shit. And what shit it is, as John Paul Rollert discovered on his trip to the Indy 500: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/a-lap-around-indy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Among the more ingenious entrepreneurs were Kyle and Scott, two men I discovered lugging enormous duffle-bags stuffed with homemade t-shirts<\/a>. Kyle wore one featuring the disembodied heads of Hillary Clinton and Monica Lewinsky and an uninspired pun involving <em>suck<\/em>. Scott, however, wore the shirt that elicited endless commentary from all who passed. It read simply: <small>DONALD FUCKIN\u2019 TRUMP<\/small>. With its ambiguous modifier\u2014does it mark enthusiasm, amazement, horror?\u2014the shirt was a hot item among race fans, which was a good thing for the itinerant salesman, as between the two shirts, they had 2,700 to sell. While Kyle attended a car-full of boys trying to resolve whether to buy one shirt for $20 or take the two-fer deal at $35, I asked Scott why he thought people were so drawn to the shirts. He shrugged. \u2018They like cuss words,\u2019 he said.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In which <em>The New Yorker<\/em>\u2019s present editor boasts of his predecessor\u2019s predecessor\u2019s predecessor, some guy named William Shawn: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-genius-of-william-shawn-and-the-invention-of-the-new-yorker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shawn sent a memo to Matthew Josephson telling him that his profile of William Knudsen, a leader of the automobile industry, was \u2018a stunning piece of historical reporting.\u2019<\/a> Then he wrote that he was appending \u2018a few questions.\u2019 There were 178 \u2026 J.\u2009D. Salinger called him \u2018the most unreasonably modest of born great artist-editors.\u2019 Beneath the modesty, however, was a steely tactical will. Harold Brodkey suggested that Shawn combined the qualities of Napol\u00e9on Bonaparte and Saint Francis of Assisi.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In which Karan Mahajan comes to America and learns that we all pretend to be bosom buddies for no apparent reason: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/my-struggle-with-american-small-talk\" target=\"_blank\">American life is based on a reassurance that we like one another but won\u2019t violate one another\u2019s privacies. This makes it a land of small talk<\/a>. Two people greet each other happily, with friendliness, but might know each other for years before venturing basic questions about each other\u2019s backgrounds. The opposite is true of Indians. At least three people I\u2019ve sat next to on planes to and from India have asked me, within minutes, how much I earn as a writer (only to turn away in disappointment when I tell them). In the East, I\u2019ve heard it said, there\u2019s intimacy without friendship; in the West, there\u2019s friendship without intimacy.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Twitter deletes inactive accounts after a certain period of time, which means that Prince, David Bowie, and other recently deceased celebrity users will have their tweets vanished forever. Sonia Weiser asks: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2016\/07\/should-princes-tweets-be-in-a-museum\/489776\/\" target=\"_blank\">Should famous artists\u2019 social-media profiles be saved<\/a>? Archiving their digital materials would follow the tradition of old-school paper archives, the ones that are responsible for maintaining collections like hundreds of Emily Dickinson\u2019s letters, notes from Mary Shelley that show her succumbing to a brain tumor, and F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s working drafts and photographs. If journals, sketchbooks, letters, and scribbled-on napkins are venerated and kept for insights into great minds, there seems to be a case that tweets should be held onto, too \u2026 Archivists now have the challenge of working through the kinks of determining digital material\u2019s place among artists\u2019 greater estates and settling on a feed\u2019s value.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in poetry as panhandling: Rowan McCabe pitches himself as \u201cthe world\u2019s first door-to-door poet.\u201d (An insult to the many lyrically inclined encyclopedia salesmen who once roamed this earth.) McCabe is based in the UK and will likely never make it to the U.S., where poets are routinely shot. 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