{"id":102258,"date":"2016-09-01T08:59:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T12:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=102258"},"modified":"2016-09-01T10:26:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T14:26:55","slug":"final-jane-austen-rewrite-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/01\/final-jane-austen-rewrite-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Jane Austen Rewrite, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_102265\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/metro_pr_wp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102265\" class=\"wp-image-102265 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/metro_pr_wp.jpg\" alt=\"metro_pr_wp\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-102265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from Whit Stillman\u2019s <i>Metropolitan<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>It may surprise you that literary history could frown upon Seth Grahame-Smith, the \u201cmash-up novelist\u201d famous for his <em>Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/em> and <em>Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter<\/em>. Grahame-Smith is now being sued by Hachette, his publisher, for breach of contract. Alison Flood explains the case at the <em>Guardian<\/em>: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/aug\/31\/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-author-sued-by-publisher-hachette-seth-grahame-smith\" target=\"_blank\">The complaint says the Grahame-Smith delivered the second manuscript in June 2016, but alleges that the work was \u2018not original to Smith, but instead is in large part an appropriation of a 120-year-old public-domain work<\/a>,\u2019 that it \u2018materially varies from the 80,000\u2013100,000 word limit\u2019 agreed on, and that it \u2018is not comparable in style and quality to Smith\u2019s wholly original best seller <em>Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter<\/em>.\u2019 \u201d Maybe this will put an end to Jane Austen rewrites not penned by Whit Stillman.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you\u2019re like me, your memories of childhood are punctuated by stray mental images of a man with permed hair slowly applying dollops of paint to a landscape on canvas. You\u2019ll remember, too, that this gentle presence, this vague painter of memories, was known as Bob Ross, and you\u2019ll recall that his television show, which is now streaming on Netflix, was titled <em>The Joy of Painting<\/em>. But you probably won&#8217;t\u00a0know that Ross hated the puffball that sat upon his head, or that he is remembered by his manager as a benign tyrant. At <em>NPR<\/em>, Danny Hajek does us the service of unsettling our recollections. The worst of it: the perm was artificial! \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/29\/490923502\/the-real-bob-ross-meet-the-meticulous-artist-behind-those-happy-trees\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Ross\u2019s\u00a0hair was actually straight. Just ask his longtime business partner, Annette Kowalski, who knew Ross better than anyone\u2014he had just gotten out of the Air Force, and was unsuccessfully trying to make a living as a painter<\/a> \u2026 Before he could change it back, though, the perm became his company\u2019s logo\u2014Ross hated it.\u201d\n<\/li>\n<li>The novelist Rachel Cusk, writing for the <em>Times<\/em>, dutifully crushes our dreams of domestic serenity. It turns out that our interiors (our inner lives) are violently reshaped when we remodel our interiors (the inside of our homes). Here she is in the throes of an existential crisis: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/04\/magazine\/making-house-notes-on-domesticity.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">I was driven to what appeared to be the brink of mental and physical collapse by embarking on the complete remodeling of our London flat, and while it was true that my children and I were now enjoying the benefits of living in a more pleasant environment, I still felt a certain sense of shame at how determinedly I brought these events about<\/a>. I caused walls to be knocked down and floors to be ripped up and rooms to be gutted; I threw away decades\u2019 worth of clutter and keepsakes and old furniture; with what at times seemed like magic and at others sheer violence, I caused the past to be obliterated and put something new, something of my choosing, in its place.\u201d\n<\/li>\n<li>In the future, the M.F.A. will be replaced by the online master class taught by aging celebrity artists. James Patterson will offer tit-for-tat instructions on how to sell a novel. Werner Herzog will provide the syllabus. And Aaron Sorkin will teach us how to write for television\u2014everything, at that point, will be television. The future, Laura Olin writes at <em>The Awl<\/em>, is now, for Sorkin has just released his online course in screenwriting for a site called MasterClass. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theawl.com\/aaron-sorkin-teaches-you-how-to-win-the-lottery-a935e86ad6c5#.rpszomax2\" target=\"_blank\">If you were casting a movie and needed someone to play a teacher of screenwriting, you would probably pick someone like Aaron Sorkin to play the part<\/a>,\u201d Olin writes. \u201cHe is a middle-aged white man. He wears sweaters. He has oval, bookish guy glasses. His hair is still very good; a few strands of it artfully fall over his forehead in a way that may or may not be engineered. He makes insightful, put-it-on-a-poster observations while also saying \u2018ah\u2019 or \u2018um\u2019 with regularity, like a smart person who is not so brilliant as to seem unapproachable.\u201d\n<\/li>\n<li>Over at the <em>London Review of Books<\/em>, the sly psychogeographical writer and documentarian Jonathan Meades bemoans the \u201cchummy determinism\u201d of our new age of \u201csmart\u201d architecture. For those of you not familiar with Meades\u2019s work\u2014which would mystify audiences raised on American television\u2014just imagine the following paragraph spoken on a screen: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v38\/n17\/jonathan-meades\/short-cuts\" target=\"_blank\">Given that petty bossiness and online manipulation are everywhere to be found it is hardly surprising that the smartest of smart buildings are already being programmed to exercise control over us<\/a>\u2014caring control, softly spoken\u2014and with a degree of subtlety that quite evaded B. F. Skinner and still evades the uniformed gorillas who patrol gated \u2018communities\u2019 and apartment complexes. So far the patrons of this new, chummy determinism are the barons of parallel reality and fiscal mockery\u2014Apple, Google, Amazon etc.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may surprise you that literary history could frown upon Seth Grahame-Smith, the \u201cmash-up novelist\u201d famous for his Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Grahame-Smith is now being sued by Hachette, his publisher, for breach of contract. 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