{"id":108764,"date":"2017-03-15T09:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T13:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=108764"},"modified":"2017-03-15T11:14:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:14:56","slug":"the-pizza-is-poisoned-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/15\/the-pizza-is-poisoned-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pizza Is Poisoned, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_108765\" style=\"width: 747px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/campbellssouppizza1967.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108765\" class=\"wp-image-108765 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/campbellssouppizza1967.png\" width=\"737\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/campbellssouppizza1967.png 737w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/campbellssouppizza1967-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-108765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A late sixties ad for Campbell\u2019s Pizza.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019ve buried some things in my day\u2014contraband candy, late family pets, the truth. But game recognize game, and I have to salute Mario Fabbrini, a Michigan-based frozen-pizza entrepreneur who once buried thirty thousand family-sized mushroom-topped pies on a farm in Ossineke. A motorcade of pickup trucks dumped the pizzas into a mass grave; Fabbrini marked it with a flower garland, featuring \u201cred gladioli for sauce, white carnations for cheese.\u201d Cara Giaimo has the full story of the Great Michigan Pizza Funeral: \u201c<a href=\"So%20Fabbrini%20recalled%20his%20%25E2%2580%2598shroom-topped%20pies,%20rounding%20them%20up%20from%20local%20restaurants%20and%20grocery%20stores.%20In%20order%20to%20get%20rid%20of%20them,%20he%20decided%20to%20throw%20a%20funeral%25E2%2580%2594partly%20for%20the%20grand%20optics,%20but,%20one%20suspects,%20partly%20as%20a%20display%20of%20accountability,%20too.\" target=\"_blank\">In\u00a0January of 1973, employees at United Canning in Ohio were checking their inventory when they noticed some of their tins of mushrooms had swelled up<\/a> \u2026 When he got\u00a0the news about the mushrooms<strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>Fabbrini stopped his shipments and submitted his mushroom pizzas to a crude contamination test: slices were fed to a couple of FDA lab mice, who promptly died. So Fabbrini recalled his \u2019shroom-topped pies, rounding them up from local restaurants and grocery stores. In order to get rid of them, he decided to throw a funeral\u2014partly for the grand optics, but, one suspects, partly as a display of accountability, too.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Literature loves a hoax\u2014the <em>Daily<\/em> itself may have perpetrated one as recently as yesterday, though you didn\u2019t hear it from me. Clifford Irving, who\u2019s responsible for one of the great written ruses of the past fifty years, isn\u2019t given the credit he deserves as a creative liar. Paul Elie tells his story: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2017\/03\/why-writers-lie-plagiarize-fabricate-stretch-the-truth\" target=\"_blank\">Irving, while living in Ibiza in 1971, concocted a bogus autobiography of Howard Hughes, the reclusive billionaire tycoon<\/a>. Irving, a Manhattan-born author of three novels that had sold poorly, saw it as a low-risk, high-adrenaline stunt, a kick at the pricks of New York literary society. It was the kind of thing a writer could try and hope to get away with in the days before the Internet laid all\u2014or most\u2014fraudsters bare. That \u2018stunt\u2019 turned Irving into the Leif Erikson of literary hoaxsters. (The forged <em>Hitler Diaries\u00a0<\/em>would not appear until the 1980s.) Irving got advances upward of $750,000 from McGraw-Hill; fooled the publisher, handwriting experts, and\u00a0<em>Life<\/em>\u00a0magazine\u2019s editors; and stirred the publicity-loathing Hughes to comment\u2014all of which seems to surprise him even now. \u2018I was a writer, not a hoaxer. As a writer, you are constantly pushing the envelope, testing what people will believe, and once you get going you say, They believed\u00a0<em>that<\/em>; maybe they\u2019ll believe\u00a0<em>this<\/em>\u00a0\u2026 \u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chabon, Lethem, Eggers, Saunders, Whitehead: the literary luminaries of the nineties made their names on a fantastical escapism, more determined to entertain than they were to provoke. Now that the world\u2019s gone even more to shit, Sam Sacks wonders if their appeal has worn thin: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/140954\/nostalgic-fiction-booming-eggers-chabon-lethem\" target=\"_blank\">the central dilemma of the nostalgist\u2019s aesthetic: Can a novelist both recapture the innocent pleasures of storytelling and at the same time illuminate the complex realities of experience?<\/a> In stable and prosperous times, truth and entertainment can overlap. But periods of crisis wedge them apart, and being faithful to one compromises the other \u2026 I find myself missing ambivalence\u2014a quality that rarely squares with entertainment. There must be precious few readers who don\u2019t already feel well disposed to tales of World War II heroes, fugitive slaves, and Abraham Lincoln.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s not just that the concept of Western civilization is bankrupt, racist bullshit \u2026 it\u2019s that it\u2019s much <em>fresher<\/em> bullshit than you might think. Kwame Anthony Appiah provides an excellent primer: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/nov\/09\/western-civilisation-appiah-reith-lecture\" target=\"_blank\">European and American debates today about whether Western culture is fundamentally Christian inherit a genealogy in which Christendom is replaced by Europe and then by the idea of the West<\/a> \u2026 If the notion of Christendom was an artifact of a prolonged military struggle against Muslim forces, our modern concept of Western culture largely took its present shape during the Cold War. In the chill of battle, we forged a grand narrative about Athenian democracy, the Magna Carta, Copernican revolution, and so on. Plato to Nato. Western culture was, at its core, individualistic and democratic and liberty-minded and tolerant and progressive and rational and scientific. Never mind that premodern Europe was none of these things, and that until the past century democracy was the exception in Europe\u2014something that few stalwarts of Western thought had anything good to say about. The idea that tolerance was constitutive of something called Western culture would have surprised Edward Burnett Tylor, who, as a Quaker, had been barred from attending England\u2019s great universities. To be blunt: if Western culture were real, we wouldn\u2019t spend so much time talking it up.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>While we\u2019re swinging for the fences, here\u2019s Lewis Lapham pondering the unfathomable immensity of the cosmos: \u201cIsn\u2019t that kind of the fun, the looking into the vast darkness ripe with wonders that will never cease? The limitless expanse of human ignorance \u2026 rouses out the love of learning, kindles the signal fires of the imagination. We have no other light with which to see and maybe to recognize ourselves as human \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/laphamsquarterly.org\/discovery\/homo-faber\" target=\"_blank\">To bury the humanities in tombs of precious marble is to deny ourselves the pleasure that is the love of learning and the play of the imagination, and to cheat ourselves of the inheritance alluded to in Goethe\u2019s observation that he who cannot draw on three thousand years is living hand to mouth<\/a>. Technology is the so arranging of the world that it is the thing that thinks and the man who is reduced to the state of a thing. Machine-made consciousness, man content to serve as an obliging cog, is unable to connect the past to the present, the present to the past. The failure to do so breeds delusions of omniscience and omnipotence.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: burying thirty thousand pizzas, perpetrating literary hoaxes, and 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