{"id":103662,"date":"2016-10-13T09:35:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T13:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=103662"},"modified":"2016-10-13T10:29:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T14:29:02","slug":"writers-time-learn-guitar-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/writers-time-learn-guitar-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers, It\u2019s Time to Learn the Guitar, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_103664\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/dylan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103664\" class=\"wp-image-103664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/dylan.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Throw everything else away. These are your tools now.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/14\/arts\/music\/bob-dylan-nobel-prize-literature.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize in Literature<\/a>, prompting a massive spike in acoustic guitar and harmonica sales at Sam Ash Music stores around the world as writers rush to recast themselves as musicians, tearing their elbow patches off and discarding their tweed sport coats, smashing their typewriters and casting whole drawers of freshly sharpened Ticonderoga pencils into the street, as it finally dawns on them that they\u2019re working in an outmoded medium facing dwindling interest from the culture at large, with not even the promise of prestige or elite status to sustain them. Don DeLillo is seeking a twelve-album contract with Columbia Records. Haruki Murakami is tripling the line breaks in all his novels and reissuing them as \u201cCollected Lyrics.\u201d Philip Roth sits cross-legged in silk pajamas, trying to play a major scale on the harmonica for about five minutes\u2014he gives up, masturbates. Milan Kundera promises to go electric at next year\u2019s Newport Folk Festival.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Believe it or not, there are other things happening. But you probably don\u2019t know, because neoliberalism has glued you to a screen in isolation, your instinctive nature permanently suppressed by sociopolitical forces far beyond your control: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/oct\/12\/neoliberalism-creating-loneliness-wrenching-society-apart\" target=\"_blank\">human beings, the ultrasocial mammals, whose brains are wired to respond to other people, are being peeled apart<\/a>. Economic and technological change play a major role, but so does ideology. Though our wellbeing is inextricably linked to the lives of others, everywhere we are told that we will prosper through\u00a0competitive self-interest and extreme individualism \u2026 Anyone can see that something far more important than most of the issues we fret about has gone wrong. So why are we engaging in this world-eating, self-consuming frenzy of environmental destruction and social dislocation, if all it produces is unbearable pain? Should this question not burn the lips of everyone in public life?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Shirley Jackson is a popular author around Halloween\u2014witchcraft will do that to a writer. But her latest biographer argues that Jackson should be read as more than a novelty act: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/10\/17\/the-haunted-mind-of-shirley-jackson\" target=\"_blank\">In a new, meticulously researched biography, <em>A Rather Haunted Life<\/em>, Ruth Franklin sets out to rescue Jackson from the sexists and the genre snobs who have consigned her to a dungeon of kooky, spooky middlebrow-ness<\/a>. Franklin\u2019s aim is to establish Jackson as both a major figure in the American Gothic tradition and a significant, proto-feminist chronicler of mid-twentieth-century women\u2019s lives \u2026 Franklin argues that Jackson\u2019s sorceress persona was mostly shtick: a fun way to tease interviewers and to sell books. Jackson was interested in witchcraft, she writes, less as a \u2018practical method for influencing the world\u2019 than as \u2018a way of embracing and channeling female power at a time when women in America often had little control over their lives.\u2019 Similarly, Jackson used supernatural elements in her work not to deliver cheap thrills but, in the manner of Poe or James, \u2018to plumb the depths of the human condition,\u2019 or, more particularly, to explore the \u2018psychic damage to which women are especially prone.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in women and trees: Jochen Rai\u00df went to a flea market in Frankfurt, where he came across a photo of a woman in a tree. Then another. Then another. Why were these women climbing? Why were they photographed in the act? In aggregate, the pictures are especially beguiling; they\u2019re collected in a new book, <em>Women in Trees<\/em>: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/315881\/inexplicable-found-photographs-women-trees\/\" target=\"_blank\">The snapshots are imbued with mystery<\/a>. Most lack any notes that might\u00a0anchor them\u00a0to a particular location, an identity, or a special occasion. For some reason, those\u00a0Rai\u00df has been able to date\u00a0were often snapped between the 1920s and thirties. But what remains most intriguing is\u00a0why so many of these women, largely dressed\u00a0to impress, chose to hike themselves up a trunk and strike a pose\u2014from the comfortable to the clumsy\u2014amid leaves and branches.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>From an oral history of Malvina Schwartz, \u201caka Bubbles Kent, aka Buddy Kent, one of New York City\u2019s reigning drag kings from the forties through the sixties\u201d:\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hazlitt.net\/longreads\/three-lives-malvina-schwartz\" target=\"_blank\">I went roller-skating for AT&amp;T, the telegram company on Chambers Street. At the time, they didn\u2019t hire Jews and they didn\u2019t hire lesbians, so I had two strikes against me<\/a>. I let my hair grow a little bit, wore some lipstick, and bought a cross. And that\u2019s when I changed my name. Then at eighteen I was of age and I walked into Ernie\u2019s, got my first job as a bartender, which I had never done. When Ernie interviewed me, he said, \u2018What do you do?\u2019 And I said \u2018Everything, everything.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, prompting a massive spike in acoustic guitar and harmonica sales at Sam Ash Music stores around the world as writers rush to recast themselves as musicians, tearing their elbow patches off and discarding their tweed sport coats, smashing their typewriters and casting whole drawers of freshly 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