{"id":103799,"date":"2016-10-18T08:42:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T12:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=103799"},"modified":"2016-10-18T10:12:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T14:12:30","slug":"pick-phone-bob-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/18\/pick-phone-bob-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick Up the Phone, Bob, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_103801\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bob-dylan-20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103801\" class=\"wp-image-103801 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/bob-dylan-20.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can you hear me, Bob? Bob?<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>[Beep.]\u00a0<\/em>Is it rolling, Bob? Ha, get it, that\u2019s from <em>Nashville Skyline<\/em> \u2026 which all of us here at the Academy just <em>adore<\/em>, by the way\u2014your voice sounds so beautiful without all those cigarettes chewing it up. But\u00a0<em>anyway<\/em>, I\u2019m calling because\u00a0\u2026 well, you know why. Okay, Bob? Bob, are you there? Hey, Bob? \u2026 Bob? We\u2019ve got this prize to give you. <em>Bob<\/em>. It\u2019s the <em>big one<\/em>, ha-ha! It\u2019s the highest honor! \u2026 C\u2019mon, Bob, pick up the phone. I know you\u2019re there. Don\u2019t let me just blather on like this\u2014again\u2014Bob? Come on, man. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2016\/oct\/17\/nobel-prize-bob-dylan-unable-to-reach\">We\u2019ve been trying to get you on the horn for days now<\/a>. Maybe it\u2019s\u2014you know you can e-mail us, right? I get it, the phone numbers get pretty long when you\u2019re calling international, maybe you\u2019re just sick of trying to dial \u2026 plus the time difference \u2026 I mean \u2026 just have your manager e-mail a little whatever, <em>He accepts, he thinks you\u2019re great <\/em>\u2026 okay, Bob! Look, we\u2019re not saying you <em>have to <\/em>get in touch. It would just be <em>nice<\/em>. We\u2019re all <em>big fans <\/em>and we have\u2014arrangements\u2014to be made. For the banquet. In Stockholm? For the fucking <em>Nobel Prize in Literature<\/em>, Bob, which, frankly, we went out on a limb, giving this thing to you, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve seen the hot takes, and if you could just <em>show a little decency\u2014<\/em>I mean not <em>decency<\/em>-decency, we\u2019re all <em>big fans<\/em>\u2014but it\u2019s, it\u2019s not like we haven\u2019t taken some heat on this one, right, and now with the prolonged silence and all it sort of looks\u2014just \u2026 call us back. Please, please call us back, Bob.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We\u2019ll all grow old someday, except for those of us who are already old, like Bob Dylan. (Oh, and those of us who will die young.) Donald Hall is eighty-seven, and solitary, and he writes about that experience in a way that will put the fear of God into you. But, you know, in a good way: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/double-solitude\" target=\"_blank\">I spend my days alone in one of two chairs<\/a>. From an overstuffed blue chair in my living room I look out the window at the unpainted old barn, golden and empty of its cows and of Riley the horse. I look at a tulip; I look at snow. In the parlor\u2019s mechanical chair, I write these paragraphs and dictate letters. I also watch television news, often without listening, and lie back in the enormous comfort of solitude. People want to come visit, but mostly I refuse them, preserving my continuous silence \u2026 Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over.\u00a0I am grateful when solitude returns.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/17\/t-magazine\/zadie-smith-swing-time-jeffrey-eugenides.html?smid=tw-nytbooks&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;mtrref=t.co\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019ve always felt very cringe-y about myself. Fiction is a useful way of getting around it or disguising oneself one way or another<\/a>. Not being able to write in the first person was very much about that, and self-disgust or anxiety about saying \u2018I.\u2019 I used to sit in front of the computer and have a very tough time writing, and I just noticed, once I was in therapy, I didn\u2019t find it so difficult to write \u2026 It did seem to me, when I was a kid and also now that I\u2019m a grown-up writer, that a lot of male writers have a certainty that I have never been able to have. I kept on thinking I would grow into it, but I\u2019m never sure I\u2019m doing the right thing.\u201d Zadie Smith talks to Jeffrey Eugenides.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Alex Balk would like you to conduct a dangerous thought experiment. Can you handle it? Take a deep breath, and \u2026 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theawl.com\/life-before-smartphones-66ff03a094a8#.9c3j10h0i\" target=\"_blank\">cast your memory back to that time before smartphones<\/a>. (You probably had a flip phone, like Adele in that video.) What do you mostly remember? Were you anxious? Did you dread looking at your phone to see what was on it? \u2026 I think if you reflect honestly on that era you will have to answer that not only were any of those things not a prominent part of your personality, but also their absence offered a degree of equanimity which you would today perceive as impossible to deal with. Back before smartphones you were considerably less apprehensive than you are in the present. What we are now being sold subconsciously is the idea that the lack of constant agitation was somehow mundane.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>David Campany looks at the road photography of Justine Kurland: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/aperture.org\/blog\/justine-kurland-highway-kind-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Justine Kurland photographs America\u2019s tangled sense of itself<\/a> \u2026 Her road trips are long and her van is eleven years old. With 250,000 miles on the clock, it gets patched up often. Since nobody feels entirely positive about cars these days, breakdowns and crashes feel like larger symbolic deaths. But as Evans wrote in \u2018The Auto Junkyard,\u2019 a 1962 photo-essay published in\u00a0<em>Fortune<\/em>, \u2018There is a secret imp in almost every civilized man that bids him delight in the surprises and in the mockery in the forms of destruction.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Beep.]\u00a0Is it rolling, Bob? Ha, get it, that\u2019s from Nashville Skyline \u2026 which all of us here at the Academy just adore, by the way\u2014your voice sounds so beautiful without all those cigarettes chewing it up. But\u00a0anyway, I\u2019m calling because\u00a0\u2026 well, you know why. Okay, Bob? Bob, are you there? Hey, Bob? \u2026 Bob? 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