{"id":103960,"date":"2016-10-20T01:41:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T05:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=103960"},"modified":"2016-10-20T10:33:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T14:33:54","slug":"shhhh-desert-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/20\/shhhh-desert-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Shhhh\u2014It\u2019s the Desert, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_103962\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/mondaufgang_im_valle_de_la_luna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103962\" class=\"wp-image-103962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/mondaufgang_im_valle_de_la_luna.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"442\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Simon Prisner.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>From afar, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature seems like a real laugh riot, at least to those of us whose main ambition in life is to gain the adulation of the Swedes. But a new volume of Samuel Beckett\u2019s letters suggests that taking home the Nobel\u00a0is not such a bed of roses: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/oct\/19\/the-letters-of-samuel-beckett-1966-1989-review\" target=\"_blank\">The Beckett of the years covered by this fourth and final volume of letters is lionized even before he is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969<\/a>. Although, in his case, the word \u2018award\u2019 is wholly inappropriate: he considered the prize a threat to his creativity (\u2018I hope the work will forgive me and let me near it again\u2019). He was on holiday in Tunisia with his wife, Suzanne, when his publisher sent a telegram: \u2018In spite of everything they have given you the Nobel Prize.\u2019\u00a0Writing to his lover\u00a0Barbara Bray a week later, Beckett\u2019s response to his laureateship couldn\u2019t be less effusive: \u2018Here things are pretty awful and little hope of improvement.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Want some peace and quiet? I don\u2019t mean your garden-variety hushes or lulls. I mean some <em>real fucking silence.\u00a0<\/em>Well: go on a hot-air balloon ride in the world\u2019s driest desert, the Atacama. You won\u2019t hear a peep. Ian Thomson did it, and I gather it went pretty well: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/72a48b2a-9227-11e6-a72e-b428cb934b78\" target=\"_blank\">In some parts of this shadowless immensity it has not rained for four hundred years<\/a> \u2026 From the air, the Atacama resembled an African savanna, with thorny gorse, inland beaches of white dunes, and the occasional llama skeleton picked clean by condors. I thought: this must be one of the most magnificent views in all the world. We could clearly see horses grazing in a ranch; and away there, beyond a row of solitary carob trees, meadows of alfalfa dwindling in size to resemble toy-railway lichen \u2026 In the silence of the Atacama evening, the moon hung bright and radiant; the silence was as deep and complete as if never disturbed. In Santiago the next day it really felt as if we had returned from the moon.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2015, Kim Kardashian published <em>Selfish<\/em>, her book of selfies. Now that a whole year has gone by, it\u2019s time, logically, for a new, expanded edition. Naomi Fry spent some quality time with it: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/20\/fashion\/kim-kardashian-west-selfish-book-selfies.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s easy to assign a negative value to the baroquely egocentric moreness that is part and parcel of <em>Selfish<\/em> in particular, and the Kim Kardashian West phenomenon in general<\/a> \u2026 But painting her constant self-documentation, fabulous riches and all, as a type of irrational exuberance, a wild, careless jag sure to end in disaster\u2014whether fiscal or moral\u2014misses one of the more interesting things about her, and about <em>Selfish<\/em>. What characterizes the book\u2014and Ms. Kardashian West\u2019s persona more broadly\u2014is a reliable, bland steadiness, pleasurable because of (and not despite) its lulling dependability, its ability to turn any emotional summit or vale into something of a plain.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>James Lasdun eschews the notion that good fiction must come stocked with laudable, morally upright protagonists: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/culture\/james-lasdun\/#_\" target=\"_blank\">To me, sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are<\/a>. All that really matters for me is how human and interesting they are. I happen to be drawn to characters who operate under intense internal pressure \u2026 The question of \u2018rooting\u2019 for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people will root, has never had anything to do with why I read or write fiction. As long as the writing and story remain alive, intense, invigorating, provoking, the characters can be as demonic or saintly as the author wants.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Some of us go our whole lives without once witnessing an intersection between book publishing and maritime law. But we\u2019re among the lucky ones: as I write this, the bankruptcy of the Hanjin Shipping Company is forcing U.S. publishers to grapple with the edicts of the high seas. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/publisher-news\/article\/71781-bankrupt-shipping-company-causing-woes-for-publishers.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&amp;utm_campaign=1b704dcfcc-UA-15906914-1&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-1b704dcfcc-304527913\" target=\"_blank\">At least two publishers \u2026 told [<em>Publishers Weekly<\/em>] that they have had books stranded at sea, or delayed, because of the bankruptcy dispute<\/a>. Jacq Cohen, publicity director at Fantagraphics, said the house had the complete print runs of two of its books \u2026 on a Hanjin ship that had its cargo seized earlier this month at the Panama Canal \u2026 She added: \u2018We are currently in talks with a maritime lawyer and are making plans to reprint the books as soon as possible.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From afar, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature seems like a real laugh riot, at least to those of us whose main ambition in life is to gain the adulation of the Swedes. 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