{"id":101822,"date":"2016-08-23T08:55:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T12:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=101822"},"modified":"2016-08-23T11:40:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:40:49","slug":"hail-refrigerator-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/hail-refrigerator-news\/","title":{"rendered":"All Hail the Refrigerator, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_101823\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/brentbirnbaum_dennygallery_vvff_a_lr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101823\" class=\"wp-image-101823\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/brentbirnbaum_dennygallery_vvff_a_lr.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"455\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of Brent Birnbaum\u2019s \u201cVoyeur Voyager Forager Forester,\u201d 2016, Denny Gallery, New York.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Writers generally hate to get on in years, because they\u2019re soulless cowards who fear death. (I say this with authority, even at age thirty.) One good thing about getting older, though, is that you can sell your papers\u2014you know, all that junk that records your \u201cprocess.\u201d Phillip Lopate was looking forward to cleaning house, but the process, he discovered, was more injurious than it seemed from afar: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanscholar.org\/selling-my-papers\/#.V7w5DSMrInU\" target=\"_blank\">For years I had been hearing of people selling their papers, and often these writers were, in my humble judgment, no better practitioners of the literary art than I\u2014indeed, in some cases, inferior! How did they do it?<\/a> \u2026 In due course I was approached by a bookseller who handled such transactions, which suddenly made it a concrete, attractive possibility. He contacted the New York Public Library, a logical place for my papers, given my lifelong involvement with the city of my birth, and two representatives from that estimable institution came to my house to examine the lot \u2026 In preparation for the librarians\u2019 visit, I had laid out letters, manuscripts, and diaries on the kitchen table and in boxes all about the room. I tried to steer these two examiners, a man and woman, to what I thought might be juicy bits, but their blank emotionless faces (so like those of funders or oncologists, who don\u2019t want to get your hopes up) gave away nothing, and after two hours of idly sifting through the records of a lifetime\u2019s labor, they departed.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction because it\u2019s based on fiction. In Texas, for instance, a court has been using a legal standard for mental retardation drawn from <em>Of Mice and Men<\/em>. It would be a stirring tribute to the verisimilitude of Steinbeck\u2019s fiction were it not also a horrifying attempt to deprive mentally handicapped people of their rights: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/23\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-to-consider-legal-standard-drawn-from-of-mice-and-men.html\" target=\"_blank\">Judge Cathy Cochran of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals wrote in 2004 that Lennie should be a legal touchstone<\/a>. \u2018Most Texas citizens might agree that Steinbeck\u2019s Lennie should, by virtue of his lack of reasoning ability and adaptive skills, be exempt\u2019 from the death penalty, she wrote. \u2018But, does a consensus of Texas citizens agree that all persons who might legitimately qualify for assistance under the social services definition of mental retardation be exempt from an otherwise constitutional penalty?\u2019 \u2026 Steinbeck\u2019s son Thomas heard about Texas\u2019 Lennie standard. \u2018The character of Lennie was never intended to be used to diagnose a medical condition like intellectual disability,\u2019 Thomas Steinbeck, who died this month, said in a 2012 statement. \u2018I find the whole premise to be insulting, outrageous, ridiculous and profoundly tragic.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Art Spiegelman has made his peace with the term <em>graphic novel<\/em>, but only on the condition that one-page comics can also qualify for graphic novelhood: \u201c\u00a0\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/eyeball-kicks-art-spiegelman-on-one-page-graphic-novels\">About seven years ago, I was invited to do a comics page for the op-ed section of the <em>Washington\u00a0Post<\/em><\/a>,\u2019 he recalled. \u2018The editor was very excited and told me, Great\u2014we\u2019ve never had a graphic novel before! I pointed out that it was only a one-page comic, but the editor repeated, Right, and we never had a graphic novel before!\u2019 As a result, Spiegelman decided it was time to embrace the term that has come to characterize \u2018an ambitious comic book,\u2019 whether the narrative is drawn on\u00a0one page or three hundred. \u2018Since comics is the art of compression, I started looking back on the one-pagers which either in terms of their subject matter or in terms of their resonance had stayed in my brain,\u2019 he said.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in stacking: a good thing to do with mini-fridges is to put them on top of one another. Brent Birnbaum did it, turning dozens of wood-paneled college artifacts into totems. Claire Voon writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/313136\/retro-refrigerators-as-totems-to-our-food-storage-habits\/\" target=\"_blank\">Birnbaum scoured Craigslist to find pre-owned, old-fashioned refrigerators and drove around New York City, New Jersey, and Connecticut to collect them<\/a>. His installation, which features as many as five boxes standing\u00a0atop each other, brings to mind\u00a0Jeff Koons\u2019s hoover sculptures and Donald Judd\u2019s minimalist stacks. But placed tightly together, Birnbaum\u00a0reliquaries\u00a0more so resemble a\u00a0dense\u00a0copse of naked trees or a group of stark, monotone\u00a0totems. The hoard also recalls a city of skyscrapers once you begin to open each of the doors: sparse\u00a0decorations and dollhouse-like furnishings lie on the shelves to form miniature domiciles.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Jim Dickinson\u2019s 1972 record <em>Dixie Fried <\/em>is soon to be reissued. Dickinson played with Dylan, the Stones, Aretha Franklin, and Big Star. While the rest of us were busy never having heard of him, Alex Abramovich was driving to Memphis to make inquiries: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/08\/22\/alex-abramovich\/dixie-fried\/\" target=\"_blank\">Every few years,\u00a0I\u2019d show up at the Zebra Ranch with barbecue and a head full of questions<\/a>. Why did rock and roll happen in the 1950s, and not thirty years earlier,\u00a0given that white musicians like Dock Boggs,\u00a0Jimmie Rodgers, and the\u00a0Carter Family had all been playing with, and learning from,\u00a0black musicians in the 1920s? Jim thought about that for a moment, then said \u2018Korea\u2019\u2014the integration of the armed forces had been a big deal\u2014and also comic books, which had taught American children to spend their money more freely.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers generally hate to get on in years, because they\u2019re soulless cowards who fear death. (I say this with authority, even at age thirty.) 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