{"id":104149,"date":"2016-10-26T05:13:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T09:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=104149"},"modified":"2016-10-26T10:31:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T14:31:33","slug":"happy-hell-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/26\/happy-hell-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHappy as Hell,\u201d and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_85519\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/beatty-paul-c-hannah-assouline_wide-5be6f9a6740894fa310d369240c91c94e7200115.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85519\" class=\"wp-image-85519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/beatty-paul-c-hannah-assouline_wide-5be6f9a6740894fa310d369240c91c94e7200115.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/beatty-paul-c-hannah-assouline_wide-5be6f9a6740894fa310d369240c91c94e7200115.jpg 1398w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/beatty-paul-c-hannah-assouline_wide-5be6f9a6740894fa310d369240c91c94e7200115-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/beatty-paul-c-hannah-assouline_wide-5be6f9a6740894fa310d369240c91c94e7200115-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/beatty-paul-c-hannah-assouline_wide-5be6f9a6740894fa310d369240c91c94e7200115-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Beatty.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>With his novel <em>The Sellout<\/em>, Paul Beatty has become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/oct\/25\/paul-beatty-wins-man-booker-prize-2016\" target=\"_blank\">the first American ever to win the Man Booker Prize<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t want to get all dramatic, like writing saved my life &#8230; but writing has given me a life,\u201d he said at a press conference, where he described himself as feeling \u201chappy as hell.\u201d Chris Jackson interviewed Beatty for the <em>Daily<\/em> last year. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/07\/our-thing-an-interview-with-paul-beatty\/\" target=\"_blank\">I hope that in my audience of weirdos, there\u2019s some of those people of all races<\/a>,\u201d he said. \u201cAs people of color, as black people, we all have to have this ability to speak these different languages and make these different references\u2014we don\u2019t\u00a0<em>have\u00a0<\/em>to have it, but it helps. So for me, it\u2019s still all in one big thing, and these cultures overlap more than they ever have. You know, in the 1970s people wanted this \u2018authentic angry\u2019 stuff that was still directed at them but in a weird I-want-to-slit-your-throat way. I\u2019m not saying those people aren\u2019t a part of my audience. I\u2019m just yelling. I know their ears will hear. But I\u2019m hoping there are a ton of ears out there that hear. I\u2019m trying not to yell in one direction, even though I can\u2019t really help but to do that.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The last time I listened to the voices in my head, I wound up causing seven figures of property damage, inventing a new way to violate the Geneva Conventions, and becoming a father. Why? Charles Fernyhough\u2019s new book,\u00a0<em>The Voices Within<\/em>, addresses the vagaries of self-conversation, but in Casey Schwartz\u2019s summation, it\u2019s too vast a subject for a single volume: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/23\/books\/review\/voices-within-charles-fernyhough.html\" target=\"_blank\">Inner voices are a facet of ordinary life: They grumble and chastise and offer up opinions, though to what extent differs from one person to the next<\/a>. Fernyhough starts to ask questions: How and when did these voices first enter our heads? Do young children hear voices the same way adults do? What distinguishes the inner voices that we all hear from the auditory hallucinations of schizophrenia? What is the relationship between pathological hallucinations and the exalted experiences described by medieval mystics, who believed they were hearing the voice of God?\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We\u2019ve talked T. S. Eliot\u2019s poems to death. It\u2019s time to look instead at his beauty regimen: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/humanities\/2016\/fall\/feature\/what-make-t-s-eliot\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia Woolf, vexed by the poet\u2019s appearance in 1922, noted in her diary<\/a>: \u2018I am not sure that he does not paint his lips.\u2019 Meanwhile, Osbert Sitwell was \u2018amazed to notice on his cheeks a dusting of green powder\u2014pale but distinctly green, the colour of a forced lily-of-the-valley. I was all the more amazed at this discovery, because any deliberate dramatization of his appearance was so plainly out of keeping with his character, and with his desire never to call attention to himself.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Elizabeth Newton on giving credit and taking credit: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/reallifemag.com\/fierce-attachments\/\" target=\"_blank\">Citation is, first and foremost, a method of attachment<\/a>. Through reference, we stitch ourselves into networks of thought. Online, these attachments might manifest as friendship, fandom, nepotism, or, not uncommonly, as self-promotion. This makes it seem like online references are more personal than offline ones. But maybe digital practices like humble bragging, name-dropping, and other conspicuous performances of self simply draw attention to the fact that print citations themselves have never been objective and value-neutral, just more opaque. Citation has been expressive all along, articulating desires for continuity and belonging.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How on earth is anyone supposed to write decent fiction about our present political moment? Thomas Mallon is trying to figure it out: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/10\/31\/2016-the-novel\" target=\"_blank\">E. M. Forster memorably said that \u2018the test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way.\u2019<\/a> Trump cannot surprise in any way; he is a flat character, and to put him in charge of any stretch of a novel, the way a point-of-view character is by definition in charge, would be as irresponsible as putting one of his small fingers on the nuclear button. In truth, I don\u2019t see him functioning as a character of any kind in this novel; he would operate more as a looming anal face, like Dr. T.\u00a0J. Eckleburg\u2019s eyes, hovering over the valley of ashes, in <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em>, or simply as his own late-nineteen-nineties billboard near the Lincoln Tunnel.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his novel The Sellout, Paul Beatty has become the first American ever to win the Man Booker Prize. \u201cI don\u2019t want to get all dramatic, like writing saved my life &#8230; but writing has given me a life,\u201d he said at a press conference, where he described himself as feeling \u201chappy as hell.\u201d Chris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[19508,25375,1264,1049,17241,25376,1772,17921,17323,25374],"class_list":["post-104149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-citation","tag-credit","tag-e-m-forster","tag-man-booker-prize","tag-paul-beatty","tag-political-fiction","tag-t-s-eliot","tag-talking-to-yourself","tag-the-sellout","tag-the-voices-within"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Paul Beatty Is the First American to Win the Booker Prize<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This and more in today\u2019s roundup.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/26\/happy-hell-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cHappy as Hell,\u201d and Other News by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"October 26, 2016 \u2013 With his novel The Sellout, Paul Beatty has become the first American ever to win the Man Booker Prize. \u201cI don\u2019t want to get all dramatic, like writing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/26\/happy-hell-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-10-26T09:13:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-10-26T14:31:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/beatty-paul-c-hannah-assouline_wide-5be6f9a6740894fa310d369240c91c94e7200115.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1398\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"786\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/26\/happy-hell-news\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/26\/happy-hell-news\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dan Piepenbring\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6b16ca558fc538230f135c3220dfd3c8\"},\"headline\":\"\u201cHappy as Hell,\u201d and Other News\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-10-26T09:13:28+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-10-26T14:31:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/26\/happy-hell-news\/\"},\"wordCount\":735,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/26\/happy-hell-news\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/beatty-paul-c-hannah-assouline_wide-5be6f9a6740894fa310d369240c91c94e7200115.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"citation\",\"credit\",\"E. 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