{"id":20084,"date":"2011-08-30T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=20084"},"modified":"2011-08-30T14:14:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T18:14:39","slug":"delivering-chinese-self-esteem-bingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/delivering-chinese-self-esteem-bingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Delivering Chinese; Self-Esteem Bingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19695\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Millet1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19695\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19695\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Millet1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Millet1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Millet1-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail from Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Millet, <em>Peasant Spreading Manure<\/em>, 1855, oil on canvas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Most dust jackets list only literary accomplishments, but I\u2019ve always been a fan of offbeat author bios. So I asked some of my favorite writers to describe their early jobs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Darin Strauss:<\/strong> I worked freelance at <em>The Aspen Times <\/em>as a nightlife correspondent: seven hundred words for fifty bucks, an article a month. Then I thought, Hey dummy, you published with <em>The Aspen Times<\/em>, you should go to New York and write for <em>their<\/em> <em>Times<\/em>! It didn\u2019t work out. I lived with my parents on Long Island and delivered Chinese food. To avoid the embarrassment of being seen doing this, I took a gig at a restaurant two towns over. My first day, a girl opens her door to me, and it\u2019s someone I went to summer camp with. \u201cDarin,\u201d she says, somehow unsurprised to find me on her doorstep. \u201cGood timing. Come in, I just ordered Chinese food.\u201d I told her I knew, I knew.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got a job at a financial technology newsletter, where I wrote stories with openings like: \u201cMorgan Stanley is reported to be buying the Telerate trading platform to replace its Thomson real-time, turning from Unix to tcb\/ip servers, with four hundred real-time end users.\u201d I never bothered to learn what any of that meant; I wanted to keep my mind free for fiction. I was going to write, write, write. I thought I\u2019d be fired instantly. When my boss said, \u201cTelerate\u2019s TIB is in trouble with its real-time market data platform\u2014find out if data delivery is &#8230; ,\u201d I didn\u2019t know whom to call, what to ask, even what I was supposed to do if I found out. Some kind woman gave me a list of questions to ask, and some numbers to call. Three years I worked there, interviewing people without a clue what I was asking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deb Olin Unferth:<\/strong> In Birmingham, Alabama, I taught \u201cself-esteem\u201d in the Department of Family Services waiting room, where four or five hundred people showed up at seven in the morning and waited for hours\u2014sometimes six, seven hours\u2014for their appointments to get food stamps, or to sign up for welfare, or to meet with their caseworker about the children who had been removed from their homes and placed in foster care. My main activity was to get them to play self-esteem bingo. I handed out blank cards, and people were supposed to write adjectives that described them in the spaces. I provided a sample list: \u201cbeautiful,\u201d \u201csmart,\u201d \u201cfunny.\u201d I\u2019d call out the words and when someone said, \u201cBingo,\u201d I\u2019d read their card aloud and say, \u201cNow does she have a <em>good <\/em>self-esteem or a <em>bad<\/em> self-esteem?\u201d and whoever didn\u2019t completely hate me by that time would chirp, \u201cGood self-esteem!\u201d And I\u2019d give the winner a tiny cheap notebook and say, \u201cHere\u2019s a place for you to write your hopes and dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><em>Chris Flynn is the\u00a0books editor at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigissue.com\/\">The Big Issue<\/a> <em>and the fiction editor at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbookreview.com.au\/\">Australian Book Review<\/a><em>.<\/em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most dust jackets list only literary accomplishments, but I\u2019ve always been a fan of offbeat author bios. 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