{"id":112790,"date":"2017-08-03T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=112790"},"modified":"2017-08-05T14:26:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T18:26:34","slug":"help-my-friend-is-a-vaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/03\/help-my-friend-is-a-vaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Help! My Friend Is a Vaper, and Other Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/argument-keogh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-112480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/argument-keogh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/argument-keogh.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/argument-keogh-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/argument-keogh-768x537.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Dear <\/em>Paris Review<em>,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m suspicious of memoirs. I don\u2019t think people remember things as well as the genre suggests they do, and life doesn\u2019t play out so neatly. I love Vivian Gornick\u2019s writing partly because her memoirs work according to different rules, but she seems to be doing something pretty unique. Are there others like her?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sincerely,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Memoirphobic<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dear\u00a0Phobic,<\/p>\n<p>Or should I say, Dear Telepathic\u2014I was just about to recommend Vivian Gornick to another advice seeker.\u00a0(See below!) Nobody writes like her, but if you want to read an autobiography where the remembering sounds\u00a0believable, try <i>Pack My Bag<\/i>, by Henry Green. I wouldn\u2019t take it as fact, I would never trust a memoir in matters of fact: as you say, most people don\u2019t remember things very exactly. And then, of course, writers often have good reasons to lie &#8230;\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p><em>Dear <\/em>Paris Review<em>,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My bags are packed. I\u2019m ready to go. In August, I make the move from Paris to New York. What is the book to assist this transition? I figured <\/em>The Paris Review<em> would know.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sincerely,<br \/>\n<\/em><i>In Transit<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dear Transit,<\/p>\n<p>First thought, best thought? After you read E. B. White\u2019s\u00a0<em>Here Is New York<\/em> and Alfred Hayes\u2019s <em>In Love\u2014<\/em>you can get through those two on the plane\u2014try <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6183\/virginia-james-salter\" target=\"_blank\">this story by the late James Salter<\/a>, which we published\u00a0in our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/203\" target=\"_blank\">Winter 2012 issue<\/a>. Maybe you\u2019ll agree, there is something Parisian about Salter\u2019s way of writing and seeing\u2014something just-so, like the flash-frozen canap\u00e9s at Picard.<\/p>\n<p>And if canap\u00e9s aren\u2019t enough, or if you want something recent, try Vivian Gornick\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/letters-essays\/6202\/letter-from-greenwich-village-vivian-gornick\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Letter from Greenwich Village<\/em><\/a> or <em>Harlem Is Nowhere<\/em>, by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts. Then, when you\u2019re good and ready, and you\u2019ve bought a sturdy armchair, settle in with <em>Gotham: A History of New York<\/em> <em>to 1898<\/em>, by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. You may not read its thousand pages from cover to cover, but it will give you many happy hours. Welcome to town!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p><em>Dear <\/em>Paris Review<em>,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A friend of mine wrote a really bad fantasy novel when we were in sixth grade. Most of the story beats were cribbed from <\/em>Star Wars<em> and the video-game series Kingdom Hearts, which is a strange mash-up of mages and Disney characters. Seeking feedback on the novel\u2014the first of a planned trilogy\u2014my friend printed his manuscript and asked me to read it. I couldn\u2019t get past the first page. Thirteen or so years later, I still feel sort of awful. How do I reconcile this friendship? Am I the secret cause of my friend\u2019s descent into vape culture?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Sincerely,<br \/>\nFantasy Buster<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dear Buster,<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t worry, your friend embodied vape before it was even a thing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Have a question for the editors of <\/em>The Paris Review<em>? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/20\/dear-paris-review-where-do-i-publish\/%E2%80%9Cmailto:advice@theparisreview.org%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\">Email<\/a> us.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Paris Review, I\u2019m suspicious of memoirs. 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