{"id":173533,"date":"2026-05-07T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=173533"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:13:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:13:21","slug":"may-bookmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/07\/may-bookmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Elegant Dirty Diary Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-173536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-04-27-at-174453-1024x715.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-04-27-at-174453-1024x715.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-04-27-at-174453-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-04-27-at-174453-768x536.png 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-04-27-at-174453-1536x1073.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-04-27-at-174453.png 1618w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the <\/i>Review\u2019<i>s site. Often we\u2019re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up on our desks and spill over onto our shelves. We sometimes share them with each other on Slack, and we thought, for a change, that we might share them with you. Here are some we found this month. <\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><i>\u2014Tarpley Hitt, online editor, and Olivia Kan-Sperling, associate editor<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An excerpt from Ma\u00efa Hruska\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/kafkaesque-maia-hruska?variant=44065290158114\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kafkaesque: From Jorge Luis Borges to Primo Levi, Ten Writers Who Translated Kafka and Transformed Twentieth-Century Literature<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Ecco), translated from the French by Sam Taylor:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let us consider, for example, Kafka\u2019s elegant diary entry on 2 August 1914: \u2018Germany has declared war on Russia\u2014Swimming in the afternoon.\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Xiao Hai\u2019s memoir <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/granta.com\/products\/adrift-in-the-south\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adrift in the South<\/span><\/i><\/a><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Granta Editions), translated from the Chinese by Tony Hao:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few years ago, I wrote a poem titled \u2018Production Floor #2\u2019, which was inspired by my time in Sino-Nokia. The first stanza of the poem reads:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The assembly lines are its arms<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The computer screens are its eyes<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My brain its engine, running day and night Light bulbs the sun, beneath which we dream in exhaustion<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh, my production floor<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This place is not my home<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My home is three thousand li away<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so it was, in the dazzling metropolis of Shenzhen, that I experienced many firsts in my life: my first time getting trapped on an illegal bus; my first time cutting open a finger with a blade on an overnight shift; my first time washing under a tap after an evening shift in winter; my first time waking up from a wet dream in pain, not knowing what at happened; my first time picking wild lychees and mangoes in the woods by the factory campus with coworkers \u2026 My life was unfathomably enriched in the big city. My teenage years were like those wild lychees, growing larger and redder as the weather got warmer. I was oblivious to the time silently slipping away from me.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Missouri Williams&#8217;s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780374619299\/thevivisectors\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Vivisectors<\/span><\/i><\/a><i> <\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(MCD):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I talked to him in outlines, general terms. He responded in kind. Despite the hours we spent together, we never exchanged anything of any real worth. Our words were like signals relayed by beacon across the surface of a plain that stretched out in all directions, and what they contained was a sign of speech, a statement that communication had been achieved, but that was all\u2014the real message was hidden. And on a plain like this there was no risk of encountering any kind of danger; the sheer volume of land that separated each of us from the other foreclosed the possibility of real contact. Our conversations drained me anyway.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A passage from Dylan Gottlieb\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/books\/9780674248977\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Harvard University Press) describes how, in the late seventies and eighties, a \u201cyuppie-driven real estate boom triggered waves of harassment and arson for profit\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It never began with arson. Before resorting to fire, speculators employed legal tactics to evict tenants. If that failed, they turned to a strategy of steadily escalating harassment. \u2026 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One man, seventy-one years old with mobility issues, said he was ordered to leave in the middle of the night. Once he had done so, the door was nailed shut behind him. More experienced speculators employed professional &#8220;relocation companies&#8221; or recruited squads of toughs to do the eviction work. Teddy Krain and Alan Sackman, infamous &#8220;building emptiers&#8221; who had received some $12 million in city redevelopment tax subsidies, hired men to eject tenants from a series of SROs they owned. At the Hamilton Hotel on Ninety-Ninth Street, tenants were beaten with baseball bats as they stumbled down the stairs. With the building emptied, Sackman and Krain turned the 189-unit, rent-stabilized and controlled building into thirty-three luxury co-op apartments. At the Arvia Hotel, one of their agents broke a tenant&#8217;s ribs with the butt of a rifle. Another resident was shot with a .357 Magnum. After drinking heavily, the owners&#8217; goons marauded through the building, banging on doors and firing guns into the air until police arrived \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landlords had demonstrated they were willing to employ deadly force against their tenants. As demand for upscale housing surged, some escalated to arson. The first fatal fire would strike Hoboken on January 20, 1979. Twenty-one people were killed and 130 survivors were permanently displaced from their homes at 131 Clinton Street. \u2026 In the coming months, at least two other multi-alarm fires struck Hoboken apartment buildings, directly displacing or simply terrorizing dozens of tenants into vacating. In total, twenty-six people died in arson-related fires in Hoboken in 1979. Two more\u2014boys aged eight and two\u2014would die there in 1980.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New books by C\u00e9sar Aira, Dylan Gottlieb, Xiao Hai, Ma\u00efa Hruska, and Missouri Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68804],"tags":[68847,67827],"class_list":["post-173533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks","tag-bookmarks","tag-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Elegant Dirty Diary Entry by Tarpley Hitt and Olivia Kan-Sperling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 7, 2026 \u2013 New books by C\u00e9sar Aira, Dylan Gottlieb, Xiao 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