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Notebook pages from \u00c9ric Chevillard\u2019s autofiction.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The other night, sprawled on the floor of my apartment, I opened the newest issue of\u00a0Music & Literature<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and found myself quickly smitten with one of its featured artists: the French writer \u00c9ric Chevillard. This is neither the first nor the second occasion\u00a0M&L<\/em>\u00a0has introduced me to work that has left me in awe of its author\u2014it\u2019s happened before, with the fiction writer Ann Quin and the poet Alejandra Pizarnik. But this time felt different. Why? To start, Chevillard has accomplished what few writers, in my readings of them, have: he got me to laugh \u2026\u00a0aloud<\/em>. The pages devoted to him flaunt his impeccable range\u2014there\u2019s Chevillard the critic, the novelist\u2014but my favorite bits are those doused in humor, the short snippets of prose that take as their subjects such peculiar things as Hegel\u2019s cap (\u201cit\u2019s a must-see … a thing to behold\u201d) and Sergei Prokofiev\u2019s\u00a0Peter and the Wolf\u00a0<\/em>(where its audience \u201cends up definitively and permanently associating the instruments with the characters they arbitrarily play in the story\u201d).\u00a0Then of course there\u2019s Chevillard\u2019s\u00a0piece \u201cAutofiction,\u201d in which he subs the word ejaculating<\/em>\u00a0in for writing<\/em>: \u201cTo be honest, what I ejaculated back then was worthless. Inconsistent. Peanuts. Flan. Eggnog.\u201d Chevillard\u2019s prose brims with outrageous wit, sophistication, and fun, the likes of which I\u2019ve never read\u00a0before. \u2014Caitlin Youngquist<\/strong><\/p>\n

Julia pressed the most recent issue (for American readers) of the\u00a0London Review of Books<\/em> into my hands, demanding I read a short piece titled \u201cCat-Brushing<\/a>,\u201d by Jane Campbell. Julia and I talk about cats regularly, and why wouldn\u2019t I read an article about cat brushing. But feline grooming is only a\u00a0metaphor and\u00a0jumping-off point: the story\u00a0(I later discovered it was fiction)\u00a0is a reverie by an older woman of her past lovers, of deeply pleasurable sex, of growing old and losing all of it. She calls aging\u00a0\u201ca process of dispossession, of rights, of respect, of desire, of all those things you once so casually owned and enjoyed \u2026 Once, when I arched my back and let out little miaows of pleasure my lovers thrilled with the knowledge of their potency. Now, I offer a few inches of knitting to my son. It is a terrible loss.\u201d I don\u2019t know that I\u2019ve ever read a story in which an older\u00a0woman\u2019s loss\u00a0of sexuality and independence was written so preeningly\u00a0and with such\u00a0elegant mourning. \u201cI was loved and feared in return,\u201d she recalls of her catlike fierceness. \u201cIt was a good place to be.\u201d \u2014Nicole Rudick\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to our Southern editor for alerting me to the mystery of the Pylos Combat Agate<\/a>. This incredible frieze, recently discovered in a burial mound in Crete,\u00a0depicts two Minoan warriors locked in hand-to-hand combat over the dead body of a third. The naked chests and legs of the men are rendered in exquisite naturalistic detail. You might well describe the frieze as \u201cclassical\u201d except a) it was carved thirty-five-hundred\u00a0years ago, a thousand years before the classical period, and b) you can\u2019t actually see<\/i> the thing without a magnifying glass! And yet, according to the New York Times<\/em>, \u201cno magnifying implements have been found on Crete from this era.\u201d \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Pylos Combat Agate.<\/p><\/div>\n

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As we celebrate the first episode of the Paris Review Podcast<\/a>, I thought I\u2019d recognize another excellent literary podcast of a different type: the Otherppl Podcast<\/a>, hosted by Brad Listi. On each episode, Listi, a Los Angeles\u2013based writer, talks to another writer or a book-world denizen of some kind. The talks resemble conversations between friends. Occasionally the discussion centers on the guest\u2019s new book; sometimes it hardly comes up. Occasionally you\u2019ll hear at length about the guest\u2019s biography; sometimes you\u2019ll hear nothing about it. The program\u2019s\u00a0unpredictability is part of what makes it\u00a0work:\u00a0you never know what you\u2019ll hear, but you can be certain that with Listi, a wonderful conversationalist with a unique ability to draw out his guests, you\u2019ll get a better sense of the guest than you might from a formal interview.\u00a0I\u2019ve picked up books by his\u00a0guests simply because the authors are\u00a0compelling human beings. Listi is nearing his five-hundredth episode of Otherppl. Good starting points from recent episodes include his conversations with Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation (episode 483<\/a>), and with the poet Matthew Zapruder (episode 477<\/a>). And for a deep dive, listen to his interview with our editor, Lorin Stein, who appeared on the podcast way back in episode 112<\/a>. \u2014Joel Pinckney<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems appropriate, in the spirit of the impending holiday, to declare preemptive thanks for Masha Gessen, whose intimate familiarity with Putin\u2019s Russia has proven a source of tragically needed light over the past year. This week, she revisited a column she wrote for The New York Review of Books <\/i>two days after the 2016 election, \u201cAutocracy: Rules for Survival.\u201d Since then, her prescriptions for how to live under a would-be authoritarian have become only more pertinent. The current political environment, she writes, \u201cnumbs the mind and drains the spirit\u201d: \u201cWe have settled into constant low-level dread: a state in which a person can function, but can hardly be creative or look into the future.\u201d Her writing never fails to be instructive, lucid, and often unsettling, but never unduly so, like a sober diagnosis for a disease you hoped you\u2019d never contract. Read her one-year retrospective<\/a> at The New Yorker. \u2014<\/i>Spencer Bokat-Lindell<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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