{"id":3410,"date":"2010-08-13T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2012-10-22T21:40:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T01:40:53","slug":"staff-picks-robot-memoir-memento-mori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/13\/staff-picks-robot-memoir-memento-mori\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: Robot Memoir, Memento Mori"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/telenoid-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/telenoid-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/telenoid-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/telenoid.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><em>What we&#8217;ve been reading.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been fascinated by <em>Popular Science<\/em>&#8216;s articles on robots. First there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2010-08\/creepy-new-japanese-telenoid-robot-lets-you-interact-afar\">Larvabot<\/a>\u2014Hiroshi Ishiguro&#8217;s new telepresence robot meant to \u201ctransmit the presence\u201d of people in other places by mimicing their voice, face, and movements. Imagining people hugging these \u201cminimalist humans\u201d that pretend to be their friends makes me feel weird and lonely. What would David Foster Wallace have to say about this? Then I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2010-08\/are-we-future-yet-robot-astronaut-tweeting\">another robot<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/astrorobonaut\">updating its Twitter account<\/a>. I wonder: will robots ever start writing memoirs and short fiction? \u2014<strong>Natalie Jacoby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend I tore through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/085719187X\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=085719187X&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Style<\/em><\/a>\u2014a series of lectures given in 1955 by the witty English critic (and code-breaker) F. L. Lucas. The book addresses such topics as rhythm, urbanity, and brevity\u2014and has them all. \u2014<strong>Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While on vacation, I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312429320\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0312429320&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>All the Living<\/em><\/a>, C. E. Morgan&#8217;s d\u00e9but novel, in under a day. She <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fiction\/features\/2010\/06\/14\/100614fi_fiction_20under40_qa_c-e-morgan\">told<\/a> <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, after being named a \u201c20 Under 40,\u201d that it took her just two weeks to write the first draft, then another two semesters (while in graduate school!) to polish it up. Fast read, fast write. But damn, what a book. \u2014<strong>Thessaly La Force<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Julia Whitty writes equally beautiful prose about the ocean and the horror of the BP oil spill. We published her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/6035\">dispatch<\/a> from the North Atlantic in our summer issue. Her new piece in <em>Mother Jones<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/environment\/2010\/09\/bp-ocean-cover-up\">on the BP cover-up<\/a> is a must-read. \u2014<strong>Caitlin Roper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> E.B. and Katherine White&#8217;s <em>Subtreasury of American Humor<\/em> is so much better than it sounds. The stories here aren&#8217;t humor pieces as such, but writing that has a sense of humor\u2014a chapter of <em>Gentlemen Prefer Blondes<\/em> (which actually is funny) next to a chapter of <em>Babbitt<\/em> (which isn&#8217;t, and isn&#8217;t trying to be, but also is). Perfect for bed.<strong> \u2014L. S. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been marveling over these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorgan.org\/video\/austen.asp\">short reflections<\/a> on Jane Austen, filmed during a recent Morgan Library exhibition devoted to her work. And I can\u2019t stop sharing Robin Hanson\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2010\/08\/detail-is-near.html\">brief meditation on detail<\/a>. <strong> \u2014David Wallace-Wells <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ariel Dorfman&#8217;s Nelson Mandela <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nelsonmandela.org\/images\/uploads\/Eighth_Nelson_Mandela_Annual_Lecture_full_text.pdf\">lecture<\/a> (on the importance of remembering and, occasionally, the convenience of misremembering) is still the talk of South Africa. Us humble non-attendees can read it here. \u2014<strong>Anna Hartford<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>S. G. Dunn, in the preface to a beautifully crafted (and tiny) collection of Coleridge&#8217;s poetry, lent me these words (written in 1918) for a week&#8217;s worth of reflection: &#8220;For some time there has been evident, in England as elsewhere, an increasing distrust of modern civilization. The huge frame of it, we feel, is not &#8216;constructed right&#8217;. We have sought our happiness in material wealth; we have looked for peace from industrial prosperity; and the result of our endeavors has been not peace, but war. <span class=\"annotation\">[&#8230;]<\/span> We need to remember that the soul of a nation, the true ideals of its civilization, are expressed in its poetry; that the poets are the legislators, though &#8216;unacknowledged&#8217;, of mankind.&#8221; \u2014<strong>Stephen Andrew Hiltner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also, though it is such a meme it might be a bit futile to add it here, Christopher Hitchens&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/features\/2010\/09\/hitchens-201009\">cancer announcement<\/a> in <em>Vanity Fair<\/em>. A memento mori if ever there was one. \u2014<strong>A. H. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Franzen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/arts\/article\/0,8599,2010000,00.html\">the cover<\/a> of <em>Time<\/em>. Yes.<strong> \u2014L. 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