{"id":17062,"date":"2011-06-17T13:06:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T17:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=17062"},"modified":"2013-03-05T14:15:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T19:15:28","slug":"staff-picks-t-s-eliot-and-friends-mrs-basil-e-frankenweiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/17\/staff-picks-t-s-eliot-and-friends-mrs-basil-e-frankenweiler\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: T. S. Eliot and Friends, Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/TSEliotBLOG.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"348\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/TSEliotBLOG.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/TSEliotBLOG-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/>Every summer the good people at Oxford Classics sponsor a reading group in the Reading Room at Bryant Park. I joined them this week to discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0199538298\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0199538298&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New Grub Street<\/em><\/a> (1891), George Gissing\u2019s novel about freelancers who haunt the British Museum. What I remembered\u2014what everyone remembers\u2014is the scary depiction of writer\u2019s block. (George Orwell: \u201cTo a professional writer it is &#8230; an upsetting and demoralizing book, because it deals, among other things, with that much-dreaded occupational disease, sterility.\u201d) What I noticed this time was the love story between Jasper Milvain, a slick young critic on the make, and shy, scholarly Marian Yule, the nicest, toughest, smartest person in the book. \u2014<strong>Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Galleys of the two-volume <em><a href=\"http:\/\/yalepress.yale.edu\/yupbooks\/book.asp?isbn=9780300176452\" target=\"_blank\">Letters of T. S. Eliot<\/a><\/em> just landed on my desk. And everyone who\u2019s anyone is here: Ezra Pound, Lytton Strachey, Edmund Wilson, and Conrad Aiken, but also Wyndham Lewis, Jacques Riviere, and James Joyce. How disarming, though, to see a letter addressed to Bertrand Russell as \u201cDear Bertie\u201d and signed \u201cAffectionately, Tom.\u201d \u2014<strong>Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I had the chance to do a Q &amp; A with Carmela Ciuraru this week, the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00A1ADIQM\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00A1ADIQM&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms<\/em><\/a>. The book is a series of portraits of literary figures throughout history\u2014the Brontes, George Eliot, O. Henry, Georges Simenon\u2014who for one reason or another adopted pseudonyms. It\u2019s fascinating\u2014and, incidentally, piqued my interest in an author I hadn\u2019t read, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fernando-Pessoa\/e\/B000APTPLA\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;amp%3Bsr=1-1&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;qid=1308327195&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\">Fernando Pessoa<\/a>.<strong> \u2014<strong>Sadie Stein<\/strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aaron Sorkin and David Carr talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/culture\/david-carr\/\" target=\"_blank\">cocaine, journalism, and <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. \u2014<strong>Thessaly La Force<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New Directions Pearls are small books on large topics: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0811219267\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0811219267&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\">Fitzgerald on booze<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0811218554\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0811218554&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\">Garcia Lorca on duende<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/081121883X\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=081121883X&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\">Borges&#8217;s <em>Everything and Nothing<\/em><\/a>. 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Too Short and Eazy-E would not be very good boyfriends.\u201d\u00a0\u2014<strong>Cody Wiewandt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I reread <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1416949755\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1416949755&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler<\/em><\/a>, which I remembered even less well than <em>Grub Street<\/em>, but which brought to mind David Grann\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/07\/12\/100712fa_fact_grann\" target=\"_blank\">piece on Peter Paul Biro<\/a>. \u2014<strong>L. S.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tom Bissell reviews the video game\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grantland.com\/story\/_\/id\/6625747\/view\/full\/la-noire\" target=\"_blank\"><em>L.&thinsp;A. Noire<\/em><\/a>. \u2014<strong>T. 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