{"id":31866,"date":"2012-05-18T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=31866"},"modified":"2012-05-18T13:26:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T17:26:25","slug":"auden-furious-and-peripatetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/","title":{"rendered":"Auden, Furious and Peripatetic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

  • \u201cIn Defense of Brooklyn\u201d<\/a>\u2014November 1946. Local jerky and artisanal bitters do not, however, figure in the argument.\n
  • When St. Marks in the Bowery changed its liturgy, Auden did not like it at all<\/a>. His opener: \u201cHave you gone stark raving mad?\u201d\n
  • Speaking of Auden, his many New York addresses<\/a>. Yes, all would now be very expensive.\n
  • President Obama claims to have never heard of 50 Shades of Grey<\/em><\/a>. This inspires ambivalence.\n
  • Chicago celebrates the centenary of native son Studs Terkel <\/a>(who actually died at ninety-six).\n
  • A camera that takes written pictures<\/a>.\n
  • Newbery-winning children’s author Jean Craighead George<\/a> has died at ninety-two. An accomplished journalist and a nature lover, George was perhaps best known for her 1973 novel, Julie of the Wolves<\/em>.
    \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u201cIn Defense of Brooklyn\u201d\u2014November 1946. Local jerky and artisanal bitters do not, however, figure in the argument. When St. Marks in the Bowery changed its liturgy, Auden did not like it at all. His opener: \u201cHave you gone stark raving mad?\u201d Speaking of Auden, his many New York addresses. Yes, all would now be very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[7590,7589,7587,7591,7588,2160],"class_list":["post-31866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-50-shades-of-grey","tag-barack-obama","tag-holiday-magazine","tag-jean-craighead-george","tag-st-marks-church","tag-w-h-auden"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAuden, Furious and Peripatetic by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 18, 2012 \u2013 \u201cIn Defense of Brooklyn\u201d\u2014November 1946. Local jerky and artisanal bitters do not, however, figure in the argument. When St. Marks in the Bowery changed\" \/>\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\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Auden, Furious and Peripatetic by Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"May 18, 2012 \u2013 \u201cIn Defense of Brooklyn\u201d\u2014November 1946. Local jerky and artisanal bitters do not, however, figure in the argument. When St. Marks in the Bowery changed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/\" \/>\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=\"2012-05-18T12:00:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-05-18T17:26:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AudenLetter.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"725\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\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=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sadie Stein\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9\"},\"headline\":\"Auden, Furious and Peripatetic\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-05-18T12:00:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-05-18T17:26:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/\"},\"wordCount\":123,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AudenLetter-226x300.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"50 Shades of Grey\",\"Barack Obama\",\"Holiday magazine\",\"Jean Craighead George\",\"St. Marks Church\",\"W. H. Auden\"],\"articleSection\":[\"On the Shelf\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/\",\"name\":\"Auden, Furious and Peripatetic by Sadie Stein\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AudenLetter-226x300.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-05-18T12:00:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-05-18T17:26:25+00:00\",\"description\":\"May 18, 2012 \u2013 \u201cIn Defense of Brooklyn\u201d\u2014November 1946. Local jerky and artisanal bitters do not, however, figure in the argument. When St. Marks in the Bowery changed\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AudenLetter.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AudenLetter.jpg\",\"width\":\"725\",\"height\":\"960\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Auden, Furious and Peripatetic\"}]},{\"@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\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9\",\"name\":\"Sadie Stein\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/147299ffa10db51f1ff44a626a9211650a1c11f8fc07d102ab48e63ab3be037b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/147299ffa10db51f1ff44a626a9211650a1c11f8fc07d102ab48e63ab3be037b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Sadie Stein\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/sstein\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Auden, Furious and Peripatetic by Sadie Stein","description":"May 18, 2012 \u2013 \u201cIn Defense of Brooklyn\u201d\u2014November 1946. Local jerky and artisanal bitters do not, however, figure in the argument. When St. Marks in the Bowery changed","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\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Auden, Furious and Peripatetic by Sadie Stein","og_description":"May 18, 2012 \u2013 \u201cIn Defense of Brooklyn\u201d\u2014November 1946. Local jerky and artisanal bitters do not, however, figure in the argument. When St. Marks in the Bowery changed","og_url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/","og_site_name":"The Paris Review","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","article_published_time":"2012-05-18T12:00:50+00:00","article_modified_time":"2012-05-18T17:26:25+00:00","og_image":[{"width":725,"height":960,"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AudenLetter.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Sadie Stein","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@parisreview","twitter_site":"@parisreview","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Sadie Stein","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/"},"author":{"name":"Sadie Stein","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9"},"headline":"Auden, Furious and Peripatetic","datePublished":"2012-05-18T12:00:50+00:00","dateModified":"2012-05-18T17:26:25+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/"},"wordCount":123,"commentCount":1,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AudenLetter-226x300.jpg","keywords":["50 Shades of Grey","Barack Obama","Holiday magazine","Jean Craighead George","St. Marks Church","W. H. Auden"],"articleSection":["On the Shelf"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/","name":"Auden, Furious and Peripatetic by Sadie Stein","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AudenLetter-226x300.jpg","datePublished":"2012-05-18T12:00:50+00:00","dateModified":"2012-05-18T17:26:25+00:00","description":"May 18, 2012 \u2013 \u201cIn Defense of Brooklyn\u201d\u2014November 1946. Local jerky and artisanal bitters do not, however, figure in the argument. When St. Marks in the Bowery changed","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AudenLetter.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/AudenLetter.jpg","width":"725","height":"960"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/18\/auden-furious-and-peripatetic\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Auden, Furious and Peripatetic"}]},{"@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\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9","name":"Sadie Stein","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/147299ffa10db51f1ff44a626a9211650a1c11f8fc07d102ab48e63ab3be037b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/147299ffa10db51f1ff44a626a9211650a1c11f8fc07d102ab48e63ab3be037b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Sadie Stein"},"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/sstein\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31866","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\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31866"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31877,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31866\/revisions\/31877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}