{"id":36633,"date":"2012-08-03T12:09:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T16:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=36633"},"modified":"2013-03-11T15:32:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T19:32:58","slug":"what-we%e2%80%99re-loving-eccentrics-cult-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/03\/what-we%e2%80%99re-loving-eccentrics-cult-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"What We\u2019re Loving: Eccentrics, Cult Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rodriguez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rodriguez.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"rodriguez\" width=\"595\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rodriguez.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rodriguez-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All month I\u2019ve found myself recommending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v34\/n14\/perry-anderson\/why-partition\" target=\"_blank\">Perry Anderson\u2019s series<\/a> in the <em>London Review of Books<\/em> on the birth of modern India. Anderson is hardly a well-kept secret; he is about as renowned as a Marxist historian can be. Still, his in-depth articles\u2014on China, Russia, Italy, et cetera\u2014are like nothing in any other magazine. Imagine the old <em>Encyclopedia  Britannica <\/em>as written by the God of the Old Testament. He lays about him with a mighty hand.<strong> \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I like biographies for beach reading. (And by <em>beach<\/em> I mean the roof of my building.) Lisa Cohen\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0374176493\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0374176493&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>All We Know<\/em><\/a>\u2014a joint study of Esther Murphy, Mercedes de Acosta, and Madge Garland, and a vivid portrait of between-the-wars bohemia\u2014is just the thing: substantive, thoughtful, and juicy enough that you\u2019ll risk a burn to find out what happens next.<strong> \u2014Sadie O. Stein<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are an eccentric, you will be thrilled to know that there is a club for you. It\u2019s called, rather plainly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eccentricclub.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Eccentrics Club<\/a>. It\u2019s based in London, was founded in 1781, and still exists. It sounds like a joke, but it isn\u2019t\u2014it\u2019s patronized by the Duke of Edinburgh, no less. The club\u2019s stated mission is to promote, presumably just among eccentrics, \u201cGood Fellowship\u201d and \u201cTrue Sociality\u201d\u2014\u201cvirtues which,\u201d according to the club&#8217;s rules and regulations of 1808, \u201care now getting rare and eccentric; but which it is the wish and intent of this Society to cherish within their narrow circle to the utmost of their power \u2026 in the occasional enjoyment of\u00a0 \u2018the feast of reason and the flow of soul.\u2019\u201d If you aren\u2019t quite sure whether or not you qualify, do not fret, as the Society has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eccentricclub.co.uk\/are-you-eccentric.php\" target=\"_blank\">a useful page<\/a> to help you diagnose yourself. If you discover that you <em>are<\/em> in fact an eccentric, don\u2019t get too excited: admission to the club is by interview only.<strong> \u2014Arthur Holland Michel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonyclassics.com\/searchingforsugarman\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Searching for Sugar Man<\/em><\/a>\u2014the story of Detroit cult singer-songwriter Rodriguez and his unlikely second act\u2014is a solid, pleasurable documentary that I\u2019d recommend to anyone who enjoys crying alone at movies (I do). But even if you don\u2019t catch it, check out the sound track: composed entirely of the subject\u2019s own music, it makes a strong case for his place in the early-seventies canon. I\u2019ve had <em>Cold Fact<\/em> on repeat for the past week.<strong> \u2014S.O.S. <br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All month I\u2019ve found myself recommending Perry Anderson\u2019s series in the London Review of Books on the birth of modern India. 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