{"id":50419,"date":"2013-04-12T12:47:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T16:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=50419"},"modified":"2019-01-05T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T16:56:09","slug":"what-were-loving-aliens-and-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/what-were-loving-aliens-and-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"What We\u2019re Loving: Aliens and Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepressed Soviet writers had the chance to become political heroes, even when (as in the case of Joseph Brodsky, for instance) their writing was not explicitly political. Every \u2018unofficial\u2019 story or poem became an act of bravery, of protest. Illicit literature was circulated among friends and smuggled abroad; the sheer effort devoted to reading and sharing samizdat texts was a testament to their significance. America has its share of homegrown graphomaniacs, hellbent on becoming the next John Grisham or Jonathan Franzen, but it\u2019s just not the same.\u201d <a href=\" http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/173768\/oligarchs-and-graphomaniacs#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In <em>The Nation<\/em><\/a>, our frequent contributor Sophie Pinkham asks what happened to Russian writing. <strong>\u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lately I have been returning to the work of John Thorne. Thorne, who has published an idiosyncratic and resolutely un-foodie newsletter\u00a0for thirty years, is acknowledged in the trade to be one of our finest food writers. I think he\u2019s one of the best essayists working, full stop: humane, eccentric, incisive. Start with his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780865475045?aff=theparisreview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Simple Cooking<\/em><\/a>, although you can\u2019t really go wrong. As Thorne writes in his essay \u201cPerfect Food,\u201d \u201cOur appetite should always be larger and more curious than our hunger, turned loose to wander the world\u2019s flesh at will. Perfection is as false an economy in cooking as it is in love, since, with carrots and potatoes as with lovers, the perfectly beautiful are all the same; the imperfect, different in their beauty, every one.\u201d <strong>\u2014Sadie Stein<\/strong> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is writing, what is writing in a book, what is a page? A page is essentially a score, like a musical score for voice.\u201d So says Margaret Atwood, after reading Mavis Gallant\u2019s \u201cVoices Lost in Snow\u201d on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2013\/04\/fiction-podcast-margaret-atwood-reads-mavis-gallant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a recent fiction podcast<\/a> from <em>The New Yorker<\/em>. And she\u2019s right: a good story is a thing to be heard and seen and felt. Hear Atwood tell Gallant\u2019s story of a little girl in Canada with absent, distracted, sad parents, and you also hear Atwood\u2019s experience of the story, Gallant\u2019s exploration of parental fumbling and the strangeness of childhood, and the voice of a little girl with red mittens trying to survive her parents. All this while you cook dinner, or lie in the dark when the electricity goes out, or sit on the subway. Even while you brush your teeth. <strong>\u2014Olivia Walton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I picked up <i><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/whenwomenwerebirds\/TerryTempestWilliams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When Women Were Birds<\/a> <\/i>for its cover appeal. (With the exception of <a href=\"http:\/\/media-3.web.britannica.com\/eb-media\/17\/90717-004-0AFCCF38.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hitchcock<\/a>, most bird-themed things soothe me.) In the course of fifty-four variations, Terry Tempest Williams meditates on the amalgam that is\u00a0her voice: Mormon tradition, her mother, mythology. Not just a lyrical account of all the influences that make a voice, it\u00a0also serves as a free-form field guide to southeastern Utah: \u201cThe moss in Owl Canyon was so dry it could not even accept the water we poured on it.\u201d <strong>\u2014Kendall Poe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t read Jean-Claude Izzo\u2019s Mediterranean trilogy, the modern noir series that made him famous, nor have I visited his beloved Marseilles. Reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1609451155\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1609451155&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Garlic, Mint, &amp; Sweet Basil: Essays on Marseilles, Mediterranean Cuisine, and Noir Fiction<\/i><\/a>, a collection of his short nonfiction, makes me want to do both. Izzo imparts the aura of his hometown without giving anecdotes and history lessons; Marseilles is, he says, a \u201cculture, diverse, mixed, where man remains master both of his time and of his geographical and social space.\u201d At times passages brought back Edmund White\u2019s <i>The Fl\u00e2neur<\/i> or Hugo von Hofmannsthal\u2019s \u201cTravels in Greece,\u201d two disparate but masterful works of place; <i>Garlic, Mint, &amp; Sweet Basil<\/i> is as different from them as they are from each other, but shares the ability to distill a part of the world into just a few pages. <strong>\u2014Clare Fentress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s the fact that after a long day at work all I want to do is watch silly television. Maybe it\u2019s that I was instantly won over by <i><a href=\"http:\/\/beta.abc.go.com\/shows\/the-neighbors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Neighbors<\/a><\/i>\u2019 alien population, the Zabrovians, dressed in <a href=\"http:\/\/static.tvgcdn.net\/MediaBin\/Galleries\/Shows\/M_R\/Na_Nh\/Neighbors_the\/season1\/the-neighbors-29.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">matching golf wear<\/a> and named after famous American athletes. Maybe it\u2019s simply that the relationship between the human and alien families is one of the realest things on television. Whatever the explanation, I quickly devoured the entire first season. <strong>\u2014Justin Alvarez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRepressed Soviet writers had the chance to become political heroes, even when (as in the case of Joseph Brodsky, for instance) their writing was not explicitly political. 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