{"id":104751,"date":"2016-11-11T16:55:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T21:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=104751"},"modified":"2016-11-15T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T22:37:00","slug":"staff-picks-leger-loving-lsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/11\/staff-picks-leger-loving-lsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: L\u00e9ger, <i>Loving<\/i>, LSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_104754\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/wanda_staff-picks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104754\" class=\"wp-image-104754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/wanda_staff-picks.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-104754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From <i>Barbara, Wanda<\/i> (c) The Estate of Barbara Loden. Courtesy UCLA Film &amp; Television Archive.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The last couple of days, with work as my excuse, I\u2019ve been losing myself in our back issues. This morning I was moved by a poem I haven\u2019t read in years, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/25\/the-mutes\/\">The Mutes<\/a>,\u201d by Denise Levertov, first published in 1965: \u201cThose groans men use\/passing a woman on the street\/or on the steps of the subway\u2026\u201d Then, in our summer 1966 issue, I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/20\/vegetable-snake-undersea-beings-a-belated-correction\/\">a letter from Allen Ginsberg describing his first acid trip<\/a>, at Big Sur, on the same day that LBJ underwent gallbladder surgery: \u201cPresident Johnson went that day into the Valley of Shadow operating room because of his gall bladder &amp; Berkeley&#8217;s Vietnam Day Committee was preparing anxious manifestoes for our march toward Oakland police and Hell\u2019s Angels. Realizing that more vile words from me would send out physical vibrations into the atmosphere that might curse poor Johnson&#8217;s flesh and further unbalance his soul, I knelt on the sand surrounded by masses of green bulb-headed Kelp vegetable-snake undersea beings washed up by last night&#8217;s tempest, and prayed for the President\u2019s tranquil health.\u201d \u2014<strong>Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/letters-essays\/6820\/barbara-wanda-nathalie-leger\">An excerpt<\/a> of Nathalie L\u00e9ger\u2019s new book\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/dorothyproject.com\/?book=suite-for-barbara-loden\">Suite for Barbara Loden<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>appears in our Fall issue. It\u2019s one of my favorite pieces, a multigenre portrait of L\u00e9ger, Loden, and Wanda (the titular subject of Loden\u2019s 1970 film, which Loden wrote and directed and in which she stars). L\u00e9ger sets out to write a short notice of Loden for an encyclopedia but quickly becomes mired in the task. How do you describe a person you don\u2019t know? What constitutes their essentialness? And how do you tell their story simply? Since closing our Winter issue last week, I\u2019ve taken up the rest of the book, and I\u2019ve found it to be one of the most affecting stories I\u2019ve read in a long time. A mix of observation, recitation, and imagination,\u00a0<em>Suite<\/em>\u00a0persists in the idea that no single perspective is sufficient in gaining an understanding of a person, and also, perhaps, that no accumulation of perspectives is sufficient either. \u201cThere I am,\u201d L\u00e9ger writes, \u201cstill unable to grasp the truth of this life in its official version, the version that is both overloaded and sparse. Born. Died. In the distance the barking of a dog and the sound of trucks maneuvering: the only illusion of reality, the only depth.\u201d\u00a0\u2014<strong>Nicole Rudick\u00a0<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-104752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/19007898149.jpg\" alt=\"19007898149\" width=\"450\" height=\"717\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I finished Henry Green\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/collections\/henry-green\/products\/loving?variant=16506338567\">Loving<\/a> <\/em>a few days before Trump won. And even though it was published in 1945; even though it\u2019s about a bunch of servants in an Irish country house; even though it\u2019s written at full tilt in a high modernist style that puts it at odds with 99 percent of contemporary writing: it\u2019s been on my mind a lot this week. <em>Loving<\/em>\u2019s drama (and its comedy, too) is the anarchy of uncertainty. The group of servants at its center are fearful of what the Second World War might mean for their stations in life, and the reports they get about the war\u2019s severity often seem too far-fetched to be true. Making matters worse, their employers have all absconded to England for a while, leaving the staff listless and at loose ends\u2014ripe conditions for infighting and mass confusion. Insofar as it\u2019s a book about being stuck\u2014about bickering, trying to open your eyes to the reality at hand, and finally acting to change your life\u2014<em>Loving <\/em>serves nicely as a parable for our liminal political moment, when we\u2019re all holding our breath and trying to stay sane. It helps that the novel has a happy ending. \u2014<strong>Dan Piepenbring\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I sensed years ago when I read Rebecca Solnit\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Paradise-Built-Hell-Extraordinary-Communities\/dp\/0143118072\">A Paradise Built in Hell<\/a><\/em>\u00a0that I\u2019d return to it in crisis. The book\u2019s theme\u2014that when faced with disaster most people will respond altruistically\u2014is crucial when our country is now poised for destructive change. It\u2019s often held that when disaster strikes, communities devolve into chaos, rioting, and anarchy. But Solnit offers five examples from history of when this was solidly not the case, including two very familiar disasters in American history: 9\/11 and Hurricane Katrina. Through meticulous sociological and historical research, she proves that \u201cthe image of the selfish, panicky, or regressively savage human being in times of disaster has little truth to it.\u201d I thought about this a lot during a terrible ice storm in 2014; I was stuck on a Greyhound for twenty-four hours without any food and a man in front of me gave me a bag of pistachios and a can of beanie weenies. And I\u2019ve been mindful of these ideas this week, walking around New York making tearful eye contact with strangers. \u201cMost traditional societies have deeply entrenched commitments and connections between people, families, and groups,\u201d Solnit writes. We need to hold onto these connections and lift each other up every day, especially for the next four years. \u2014<strong>Caitlin Love<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_104753\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/solnit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104753\" class=\"wp-image-104753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/solnit.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-104753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebecca Solnit<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I\u2019ve found that fragmentation accompanies shock. Thus, a few lines that have been drifting through my head the past two days: \u201cWhence all this passion toward conformity anyway?\u2014diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you\u2019ll have no tyrant states\u201d (Ralph Ellison,\u00a0<em>Invisible Man<\/em>); \u201cThere\u2019s a lot under the surface of life, everyone knows that. A lot of malice and dread and guilt, and so much loneliness, where you wouldn\u2019t really expect to find it, either\u201d (Marilynne Robinson,\u00a0<em>Gilead<\/em>); \u201cI\u2019m with you in Rockland \/ where we hug and kiss the United States under our bedsheets the United States that coughs all night and won\u2019t let us sleep\u201d (Allen Ginsberg, \u201cHowl\u201d); \u201cI said I wouldn\u2019t, \/ damnit: No tears\u201d (Yusef Komunyakaa, \u201cFacing It\u201d); \u201cReality is a sound, you have to tune into it not just keep yelling\u201d (Anne Carson,\u00a0<em>Autobiography of Red<\/em>); \u201cLet\u2019s tell the truth to the people. When people ask, \u2018How are you,\u2019 have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully\u201d (Maya Angelou,\u00a0<em>Letter to my Daughter<\/em>); \u201cThe terror I inspired I am made to feel\u201d (Timothy Donnelly, \u201cAccidental Species\u201d); \u201cI can\u2019t go on, I\u2019ll go on\u201d (Samuel Beckett,\u00a0<em>The Unnamable<\/em>). \u2014<strong>Taylor Lannamann<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of days, with work as my excuse, I\u2019ve been losing myself in our back issues. This morning I was moved by a poem I haven\u2019t read in years, \u201cThe Mutes,\u201d by Denise Levertov, first published in 1965: \u201cThose groans men use\/passing a woman on the street\/or on the steps of the subway\u2026\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[438],"tags":[25661,699,16111,1516,25173,8622,10893,848,3839,7501,4429,25662,10997,19086],"class_list":["post-104751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-weeks-reading","tag-a-paradise-built-in-hell","tag-allen-ginsberg","tag-denise-levertov","tag-henry-green","tag-loving","tag-marilynne-robinson","tag-maya-angelou","tag-nathalie-leger","tag-ralph-ellison","tag-rebecca-solnit","tag-samuel-beckett","tag-suite-for-barbara-loden","tag-timothy-donnelly","tag-yusef-komunyakaa"],"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>Staff Picks: Nathalie L\u00e9ger, Rebecca Solnit, Henry Green<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What the staff of The Paris Review is reading this week.\" \/>\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\/11\/11\/staff-picks-leger-loving-lsd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Staff Picks: L\u00e9ger, Loving, LSD by The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"November 11, 2016 \u2013 The last couple of days, with work as my excuse, I\u2019ve been losing myself in our back issues. 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