{"id":160737,"date":"2022-07-21T16:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=160737"},"modified":"2022-07-21T15:57:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T19:57:19","slug":"september-notebook-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"September Notebook, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

At my old job, I wrote descriptions of objects; at my new job, I write descriptions of talks, concerts, classes, Jewish holiday services, and other events.<\/p>\n

Once I was in the business of selling matter. Now I am in the business of selling time.<\/p>\n

But how to use it?<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

Parable of Uncle Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n

September 2, 2018
\n1:13 P.M.<\/small><\/p>\n

Dear Uncle Martin,<\/p>\n

Just wanted to drop you a quick note to wish you a very happy birthday\u2014100 is a big one! Apologies for the belated note, though I’m sure you were inundated that day. I hope this finds you well and that we can see each other again soon.<\/p>\n

Lots of love,<\/p>\n

Dan<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

September 3, 2018
\n1:26 P.M.<\/small><\/p>\n

Dear Dan: Thank you for the greeting. I just read your Dumpster poem. Congratulations. I will be learning how to interpret your style of poetry. Across the street from where I live, there was recently\u00a0a dumpster, into which all the furniture, house cleaning equipments, lamps, tools, furniture, books, were being tossed. I knew those neighbors well. Although the debris never existed in close association before, they now did. Examined closely, as by an anthropologist, they revealed an entire type of life.<\/p>\n

For some reason, I was always interested in poetry. In fact, the only book I ever kept after graduating from high school was “The Golden Treasury,” a book of old English poetry. So, it was only a matter of time before one of my parents\u2019 greatgrand whatevers would be a poet. Excelsior! Love, Martin<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

September 4, 2018
\n11:31 A.M.<\/small><\/p>\n

Dear Martin,<\/p>\n

Thank you so much for this lovely note, and I’m delighted that you read the poem. I’ve heard that there’s been a recessive poetry gene in our family for some time\u2014my dad tells me that my grandpa Harry used to love reading Keats, a favorite of mine as well\u2014and I seem to remember you telling me at some point about the Golden Treasury book.<\/p>\n

On a related note\u2014I\u2019m currently working on a long scrapbook poem of sorts, very different from \u201cDumpster\u201d or really anything else I’ve written, which includes (among other things) pieces of overheard dialogue and lots of found language that I myself did not write. Think of it as a collage. I wonder how you\u2019d feel about me including some portion or all of your previous email in the scrapbook poem (credited to you of course). It’s an experiment, so it might never come to anything, or it’s possible that someday down the road I would publish it in a book\u2014too early to tell. If this is confusing or you\u2019d prefer I not include it, it’s completely fine\u2014just say so and I’ll leave it out. But if you grant permission I’d love to include it. Just let me know what you think. In any case thank you again.<\/p>\n

Love,<\/p>\n

Dan<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

September 5, 2018
\n12:07 P.M.<\/small><\/p>\n

Dear Daniel: You can quote me it you wish. I just read a poem by Wis\u0142awa Szymborska entitled \u201cThe Stagecoach.\u201d In a sense, a stagecoach is a dumpster of people, and she gets inspiration from it. Love, Martin<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Weep in relation to x<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Weep adjacent to x<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Weep for x<\/em>.<\/p>\n

X<\/em> is weeping.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

If you ever feel lonely, remember that somewhere someone is making millions of dollars off of a self-help book entitled Deep Work<\/em>. The author of this book believes that if you could just not look at your phone, you would not only be less of an idiot, but also a millionaire.<\/p>\n

Turn off your phone? I find this compelling not only because it\u2019s in a book, but also because it\u2019s an author who in book are believing it. And here\u2019s the even more million-dollar question.<\/p>\n

Are we brain to work deepest of all with phone pre-inside brain?<\/p>\n

In my<\/em> book you will learn how. Please take a moment to silence your phones.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sunlit, obsequious, and revoltingly basic.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Parable of Labor Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

At Rockaway Beach I run into a colleague from the job I lost last year. She tells me that after everyone had been fired, she had continued on as a \u201ctransitional copywriter,\u201d which meant a customer service and shipping agent, the company\u2019s only employee other than the CEO. I asked her how our former boss was doing. \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d she said. \u201cAbout six weeks ago he stopped responding to my emails. Ghosted! I called the parent company, and apparently he no longer works there. I\u2019m the only one left.\u201d<\/p>\n

We regarded one another in the sand as two who would never have occasion to meet again save for serendipity, smiled, and waved goodbye.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He suffered the music of the proximate tweens with quiet dignity.<\/p>\n

Avoid no vocabulary, raise no suspicion.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He reached a pitch of exaltedness such that no amount of sherbet could calm him down.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Entire birds, consisting of a black dot and two lines. Imagine.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

So at long last, the natural resource that capitalism extracts most brutally of all, on every scale and by every metric\u2014from the hour we spend decoding latent aggression on social media to the boring novel we feel compelled by taste to read to planetary collapse\u2014is time.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The mirrored surface of that cantor\u2019s bald head as he sings the Kaddish.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Today was Yom Kippur.<\/p>\n

Cast your lint into this river.<\/p>\n

Give your lint to this intern.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Parable of Ariel<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI hit my peak as a writer in third grade. Those stories were good. They were about real things. Ferrets, immigration, poachers in Wyoming, the industrial revolution, the bread and roses strike of 1812, the state of Texas. You\u2019ve seen the anthology my mom put together.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Worms woweth under dew, soil, and cloud. All my life I wondered at what. But at what they woweth, I know now.<\/p>\n

Evil and beauty need each other.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Questions to which the answer is \u201cnight.\u201d<\/p>\n

With what instrument does one best see the instrument?<\/p>\n

What time is the right time?<\/p>\n

Which watchman?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A chiseled chest of song.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Gasoline: the final land art.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This science is suspenseful!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Parable of a Bell<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am ringing a call bell at a bar, a bell I purchased that morning, debating whether or not to use it in the reading of this poem at the Poetry Project. At previous readings I have knocked on hard surfaces to signify breaks. This bell sounds sharp and clear, lovely really, though admittedly a little loud. Eric says he prefers the knocking, as it sounds like fate at the door; Paola says ringing the bell sounds like I\u2019m asking for service. Do I want to sound like that? I don\u2019t. But what if I mute it just so, like this, with a folded napkin. They listen as the paper absorbs the outer edge of the ring. A good solution. I ring again and again to test it. A woman at the bar does not turn to me, but speaks so I can hear.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time that bell rings an angel loses its fucking wings.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In the end I decide to knock.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This ill star.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Parable of the New Job<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDid your weekend have a highlight?\u201d I ask my new colleague. The office lights flicker. Coffee steams from her cup. She does not drink it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe highlight of my weekend was time.\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Daniel Poppick is the author of<\/em>\u00a0The Police and of\u00a0the National Poetry Series winner\u00a0<\/em><\/span>Fear of Description.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cSunlit, obsequious, and revoltingly basic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68416],"tags":[11107,67827,4847,11718,165,68483,11843],"class_list":["post-160737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaries","tag-emails","tag-featured","tag-keats","tag-notebooks","tag-poetry","tag-september","tag-yom-kippur"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSeptember Notebook, 2018 by Daniel Poppick<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 21, 2022 \u2013 \u201cSunlit, obsequious, and revoltingly basic.\u201d\" \/>\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\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"September Notebook, 2018 by Daniel Poppick\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"July 21, 2022 \u2013 \u201cSunlit, obsequious, and revoltingly basic.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/\" \/>\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=\"2022-07-21T20:00:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image0.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Daniel Poppick\" \/>\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=\"Daniel Poppick\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Daniel Poppick\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/24318d0914cb0f3f699220d84c0adaeb\"},\"headline\":\"September Notebook, 2018\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-21T20:00:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/\"},\"wordCount\":1280,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image0.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"emails\",\"Featured\",\"Keats\",\"notebooks\",\"poetry\",\"September\",\"Yom Kippur\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Diaries\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/\",\"name\":\"September Notebook, 2018 by Daniel Poppick\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image0.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-21T20:00:54+00:00\",\"description\":\"July 21, 2022 \u2013 \u201cSunlit, obsequious, and revoltingly basic.\u201d\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image0.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image0.jpeg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"September Notebook, 2018\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"description\":\"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"width\":696,\"height\":696,\"caption\":\"The Paris Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/24318d0914cb0f3f699220d84c0adaeb\",\"name\":\"Daniel Poppick\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7840bf8fe8df062893933fb6462710af8b500a75a046975a0cc1013fadc6f64b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7840bf8fe8df062893933fb6462710af8b500a75a046975a0cc1013fadc6f64b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Daniel Poppick\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/dpoppick\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"September Notebook, 2018 by Daniel Poppick","description":"July 21, 2022 \u2013 \u201cSunlit, obsequious, and revoltingly basic.\u201d","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"September Notebook, 2018 by Daniel Poppick","og_description":"July 21, 2022 \u2013 \u201cSunlit, obsequious, and revoltingly basic.\u201d","og_url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/","og_site_name":"The Paris Review","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","article_published_time":"2022-07-21T20:00:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":480,"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image0.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Daniel Poppick","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@parisreview","twitter_site":"@parisreview","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Daniel Poppick","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/"},"author":{"name":"Daniel Poppick","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/24318d0914cb0f3f699220d84c0adaeb"},"headline":"September Notebook, 2018","datePublished":"2022-07-21T20:00:54+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/"},"wordCount":1280,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image0.jpeg","keywords":["emails","Featured","Keats","notebooks","poetry","September","Yom Kippur"],"articleSection":["Diaries"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/","name":"September Notebook, 2018 by Daniel Poppick","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image0.jpeg","datePublished":"2022-07-21T20:00:54+00:00","description":"July 21, 2022 \u2013 \u201cSunlit, obsequious, and revoltingly basic.\u201d","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image0.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image0.jpeg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/september-notebook-2018\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"September Notebook, 2018"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","name":"The Paris Review","description":"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization","name":"The Paris Review","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","width":696,"height":696,"caption":"The Paris Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/24318d0914cb0f3f699220d84c0adaeb","name":"Daniel Poppick","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7840bf8fe8df062893933fb6462710af8b500a75a046975a0cc1013fadc6f64b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7840bf8fe8df062893933fb6462710af8b500a75a046975a0cc1013fadc6f64b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Daniel Poppick"},"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/dpoppick\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160737"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160803,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160737\/revisions\/160803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}