{"id":101222,"date":"2016-08-05T09:28:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T13:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=101222"},"modified":"2016-08-05T10:26:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T14:26:09","slug":"just-build-your-own-disneyland-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/05\/just-build-your-own-disneyland-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Build Your Own Disneyland, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_101224\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/hd3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101224\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101224\" class=\"wp-image-101224\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/hd3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/hd3.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/hd3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/hd3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/hd3-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dmytro Szylak\u2019s installation in Michigan, \u201cHamtramck Disneyland.\u201d Photo via Hyperallergic.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>You might, if you\u2019re lucky, retire someday, and it\u2019s never too early to start thinking about what you\u2019ll do with all that free time. You may think you\u2019ve got it all figured out\u2014I\u2019ll just build a wacky Disneyland spin-off in my backyard, you say to yourself. But that\u2019s been done: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/311753\/the-outsider-artist-who-built-his-own-private-disneyland\/\" target=\"_blank\">After retiring from a thirty-year career in auto manufacturing in the late eighties, [Dmytro] Szylak began work on his folk-art installation, tenuously mounted to the roof of the garage behind his Hamtramck duplex on Klinger Street and that of the adjoining property<\/a> \u2026 Hamtramck Disneyland looms like a Cubist carnival. The superstructure is mostly wood, strung with lights and painted in the bright Ukrainian national colors of yellow and blue, as well as red, purple, and green. This forms the base for an avalanche of found objects\u2014Szylak was seemingly obsessed with propellers and fans, American idols like Elvis, and particularly the type of blow-mold horses employed in bouncy toys for toddlers. An entire herd of them runs wild across the installation, and two of them rear up inside the arch constructed over the front gate\u2014one of the only indicators on the street side of what lies behind the house.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Reviewing Colson Whitehead\u2019s new novel, Brit Bennett looks at the difficulties inherent in telling stories about slavery: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/135708\/colson-whiteheads-fantastic-voyage\" target=\"_blank\">The problem with the slave narrative is its predictability: A person is born in bondage to a cruel master; he or she observes a first whipping, struggles to obtain literacy, attempts to flee, fails, and later successfully escapes to the North<\/a>. If the purpose of autobiography is to uniquely render a unique life, then slave narratives often feel formulaic, the narrators indistinct \u2026 Unlike white autobiographers, black authors could not expect that readers would approach their works on good faith\u2014they anticipated a skeptical, if not hostile, audience. To make their stories seem authentic, ex-slave narrators came to rely on certain established patterns. \u2018This was perhaps the greatest challenge to the imagination of the Afro-American autobiographer,\u2019 Andrews writes. \u2018The reception of his narrative as truth depended on the degree to which his artfulness could hide his art.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>There\u2019s one slave narrative I\u2019m not sure anyone predicted: <em>Ghostwriter<\/em>, the PBS children\u2019s show from the nineties, where a bunch of Brooklyn kids solve mysteries by following a colorful, zippy phantasm-blob thing that draws their attention to the letters and words around them.\u00a0Per Nick Ripatrazone, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2016\/08\/ghostwriter-taught-kids-to-love-words\/492293\/\" target=\"_blank\">After the series ended, the writer Kermit Frazier revealed that\u00a0Ghostwriter was a runaway slave \u2018killed by slave catchers and their dogs as he was teaching other runaway slaves how to read in the woods.\u2019<\/a> Though viewers at the time wouldn\u2019t have known this backstory, these tragic origins are also somehow fitting: During both his life and his existence as a spirit, Ghostwriter finds truth and freedom in words \u2026 <em>Ghostwriter\u00a0<\/em>often focused on the humbling idea that literature\u2014an endeavor sometimes seen as elitist or inaccessible\u2014is for everyone and can bring people closer together.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Jill Soloway, of <em>Transparent <\/em>fame, is adapting Chris Kraus\u2019s <em>I Love Dick <\/em>for TV\u2014as Jason McBride writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2016\/07\/jill-soloway-i-love-dick-c-v-r.html\" target=\"_blank\">she\u2019ll be turning one of the most compelling cult novels of the last twenty years into a television show with the potential to be as groundbreaking in its examination of gender politics\u00a0as her first<\/a> \u2026 [Soloway] identified intensely with Kraus\u2019s decision to use her own name, biography, and, as Soloway put it, her \u2018horribleness.\u2019 It helped her, she says, to reframe the shame she herself once felt about her TV writing: \u2018I don\u2019t know how to write about anything other than myself. I can\u2019t write about dragons, I don\u2019t care about crime, I don\u2019t want to write a hospital show. I only want to write about somewhat unlikable Jewish women having really inappropriate ideas about life and sex.\u2019 \u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In which Edmund White comes to a sound conclusion about Nabokov: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/articles\/public\/80834\/\" target=\"_blank\">I have recently reread\u00a0<em>Pale Fire\u00a0<\/em>(1962) which is, I realize only now, the great gay comic novel, an equally funny and sometimes tender portrait of a homosexual madman, Charles Kinbote<\/a> \u2026 What is perhaps the funniest scene involves a putative assassin, Gradus, and a lad named Gordon. Since this is a moment completely imagined by Kinbote (and, by any standard, not observed), the king\u2019s imagination runs wild. He \u2018dresses\u2019 the comely Gordon in one clich\u00e9d gay outfit after another. At first the tanned fifteen-year-old (\u2018dyed a nectarine hue by the sun\u2019) is in a \u2018leopard-spotted loincloth.\u2019 Then he is \u2018wreathed about the loins with ivy.\u2019 A second later he is fellating \u201ca pipe of spring water\u201d and wiping his hands \u2018on his black bathing trunks.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might, if you\u2019re lucky, retire someday, and it\u2019s never too early to start thinking about what you\u2019ll do with all that free time. You may think you\u2019ve got it all figured out\u2014I\u2019ll just build a wacky Disneyland spin-off in my backyard, you say to yourself. But that\u2019s been done: \u201cAfter retiring from a thirty-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[8960,23738,2043,23741,23739,23742,19680,7978,6050,5615,23740,18274,7592,967],"class_list":["post-101222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-chris-kraus","tag-dymtro-szylak","tag-edmund-white","tag-ghostwriter","tag-hamtramck-disneyland","tag-i-love-dick","tag-jill-soloway","tag-outsider-art","tag-pale-fire","tag-pbs","tag-slave-narratives","tag-slavery","tag-tv","tag-vladimir-nabokov"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hamtramck Disneyland, a Cubist Carnival in Michigan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This and more in today\u2019s roundup.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/05\/just-build-your-own-disneyland-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Just Build Your Own Disneyland, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"August 5, 2016 \u2013 You might, if you\u2019re lucky, retire someday, and it\u2019s never too early to start thinking about what you\u2019ll do with all that free time. 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