{"id":103239,"date":"2016-09-30T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T17:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=103239"},"modified":"2016-09-30T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T17:37:27","slug":"staff-picks-menace-music-melrose-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/30\/staff-picks-menace-music-melrose-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: Menace, Music, <i>Melrose Place<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_103246\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/melrose_place_libidinal_economy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103246\" class=\"wp-image-103246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/melrose_place_libidinal_economy.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What\u2019s Jean-Francois Lyotard&#8217;s <i>Libidinal Economy<\/i> doing in an episode of <i>Melrose Place<\/i>? You can thank the GALA Committee for that&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I know Patrick Hoffman as a real-life detective. So when I picked up his novel <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Every-Man-Menace-Patrick-Hoffman\/dp\/0802125441\">Every Man a Menace<\/a><\/em>, I expected to find a bunch of believable lowlifes killing each other, believably, over a large shipment of drugs. I was not expecting\u2014wasn\u2019t demanding\u2014subtle characterization, tricky narrative switchbacks, or vivid, moody prose. I also wasn&#8217;t expecting the action to begin with a long acid trip. \u201cIn his mind\u2019s eye, Raymond saw emeralds cut into shapes that couldn\u2019t be described in human language \u2026 He saw the insides of stars like rooms in a house.\u201d When Hoffman takes off his detecting hat, he\u2019s closer to Denis Johnson than to Elmore Leonard. \u2014<strong>Lorin Stein<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve never watched much <em>Melrose Place<\/em>, but I\u2019m always looking for reasons to start. I found the best one at Red Bull Studios, where Mel Chin and his team of artists, the GALA Committee, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbullstudiosnewyork.com\/exhibition\/total-proof-the-gala-committee\/\">are displaying all the art they designed for the show<\/a>. In an inspired marriage of fine art and pop culture, GALA convinced Aaron Spelling to let them pepper his sets with sly, subliminal artworks that most viewers never even noticed. (And how could they, with such melodrama unfolding around them?) A box of Chinese takeout with ideograms for \u201cHuman Rights\u201d made a cameo in a post-Tiananmen Square episode; a dartboard with a silhouette of a woman who represents the show\u2019s \u201ctarget demographic\u201d hung in the bar; and a blanket embroidered with the chemical structure of the morning-after pill found its way to one character\u2019s bed just as she learned she was pregnant. The irony\u2014such pointed social commentary in such hidden art\u2014never got old; I wandered the premises long after most had left. It helped that a number of <em>Melrose Place<\/em>\u2019s sets have been lovingly resurrected onsite. Yes, the pool is there. \u2014<strong>Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/everyman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/everyman.jpg\" alt=\"everyman\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently, I found my way into May Sarton\u2019s 1968 memoir\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Plant-Dreaming-Deep-May-Sarton\/dp\/0393315517\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1475253470&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=plant+dreaming+deep\">Plant Dreaming Deep<\/a><\/em>, which explores the five years she spent living an isolated life in the New Hampshire woods. Having decamped to Nelson, NH, to escape the academic life, she finds delight in her eclectic new neighbors; in the renovated house of her own; and in the bright, quiet glories of the natural world. The book is full of touchstones for writers and artists, with mediations on routine, freedom, and solitude. Not to be a downer, but one of the most beautiful and inspiring lines offers a way to overcome depression, which, for Sarton, was brought on by the anxieties of a New England winter. \u201cThere are no quick rewards for the depressed person,\u201d she writes. \u201cIt is a matter of making a channel and then guiding one\u2019s boat through it, day by day. For me the channel has always been the work, the writing of poems and novels, and each of these has been a way of coming to understand what was really happening to me.\u201d <em>Plant Dreaming Deep<\/em>\u00a0reads as if Sarton wrote it to understand those lonely years, to discover what they gave her. \u2014<strong>Caitlin Love<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ricardo Piglia was a cub reporter in 1965, when a gang with government ties stole several million dollars from the Provincial Bank of Buenos Aires. Almost forty years later, Piglia turned the events into a nonfiction novel, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Money-Burn-Ricardo-Piglia\/dp\/1862076650\">Money to Burn<\/a><\/em>, using court documents, his own notes, and, crucially, tape recordings\u2014the police had the hideout bugged. The result is sexy, violent, absurd, as if the kids from Larry Clark\u2019s <em>Tulsa<\/em> had organized a heist.\u00a0\u2014<strong>L.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_103244\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/therangeslabcity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103244\" class=\"wp-image-103244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/therangeslabcity.jpg\" alt=\"therangeslabcity\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><i>12:14\u2009A.M.\u2002The Range, Slab City<\/i>, a photo from Elle P\u00e9rez and Michael Schmelling\u2019s \u201cSaturday Night Out,\u201d <i>California Sunday<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The chill in the air has struck dread into my heart this week, so it was a treat to plunge back into summer through \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/story.californiasunday.com\/saturday-night-out\">Saturday\u00a0Night Out<\/a>,\u201d a photo essay in\u00a0<em>California\u00a0Sunday\u00a0Magazine.\u00a0<\/em>The images\u2014black and whites by Elle P\u00e9rez and color by Michael Schmelling\u2014begin to imagine the great heterogeneity of California\u00a0Saturday\u00a0nights: rancheros dance under hot white lights, an opera singer clutches an imaginary partner, loafers hover near guitar pedals, and a raver with beads strung up and down her arms closes her eyes against the noise of the club. 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