{"id":59058,"date":"2013-09-06T12:10:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T16:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=59058"},"modified":"2013-09-06T12:33:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T16:33:57","slug":"what-were-loving-taxidermy-heroines-bad-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/06\/what-were-loving-taxidermy-heroines-bad-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"What We\u2019re Loving: Taxidermy, Heroines, Bad Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MrPotterSquirrels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59061\" alt=\"MrPotterSquirrels\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MrPotterSquirrels.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MrPotterSquirrels.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MrPotterSquirrels-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are moments, on a red-eye flight, when your brain is too jumpy and raw to figure out what, exactly, <em>n+1<\/em> is arguing in its attack on \u201cglobal literature.\u201d When you can\u2019t go back to your (global?) novel and don&#8217;t want to plug your head into a cooking show, and when sleep is out of the question. For such moments, pack Kevin Barry\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781555976514?aff=theparisreview\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Dark Lies the Island<\/em><\/a>\u2014a story collection that roams over the Irish landscape during and after the Boom, and through several dozen varieties of bad idea, from selling meth, to having children, to organizing an ale-tasting excursion in Wales. At the risk of indulging in cultural stereotypes, Barry is Irish: when he writes a story, he tells a story, and he\u2019s not afraid of a sentimental ending, if one presents itself. Along the way, he takes such contagious pleasure in his flawed, incorrigible people that I was happy to be on a plane. <strong>\u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0811220397\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0811220397&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sorting Facts; or, Nineteen Ways of Looking at Marker<\/em><\/a>, Susan Howe writes, \u201cI have loved watching films all my life. I work in the poetic documentary form, but didn\u2019t realize it until I tried to find a way to write an essay about two films by Chris Marker.\u201d The films in question are <i>La Jet\u00e9e<\/i> and <i>Sans Soleil<\/i>. Howe splices her thoughts about these works together with childhood memories of watching Olivier\u2019s <i>Hamlet<\/i>, the early history of Soviet cinema, an elegy to her husband, and the fallout of Hiroshima, among other subjects. It is an investigation, as she says, of \u201cthe immense indifference of history\u201d and \u201cthe crushing hold of memory\u2019s abiding present.\u201d It is also, one feels, about the discovery of kinship between a documentary poet and a documentary filmmaker, via the <i>essay<\/i>\u2014whose root meaning, as both Howe and Marker remind us, suggests experiment rather argument, and a commitment to the art of surprise.<strong> \u2014Robyn Creswell<\/strong> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I recently borrowed Kate Zambreno\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781584351146?aff=theparisreview\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Heroines<\/i><\/a><i><\/i> from managing editor Nicole Rudick. A work of scholarly research and nonfiction,\u00a0<i>Heroines<\/i> takes as its subject\u00a0the wives of great modernists. Zambreno weaves together the stories of these underrecorded lives, of voices systemically silenced and institutionalized, with her own experience of research and daily life. The book lacks chapter divisions and resists conformation to recognizable forms, yet it pulses along continuously in a familiar way. An eloquent plea that diaries and other traditionally \u201cfeminine\u201d forms of writing be paid their due. <strong>\u2014Kate Rouhandeh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dorthe Nors is a writer of moments&mdash;quiet, raw portraits of existential meditation, at times dyspeptic, but never unsympathetic. Throughout Nors\u2019s slim collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781555976651?aff=theparisreview\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Karate Chop<\/i><\/a>&mdash;fifteen stories at ninety pages&mdash;she asks us to accept these characters as they are: from the increasingly unbalanced Buddhist to the young boy trying to understand his philandering father. You can read her story &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fiction\/features\/2013\/09\/09\/130909fi_fiction_nors\" target=\"_blank\">The Heron<\/a>&#8221; in this week\u2019s <i>New Yorker<\/i>. As the author told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2013\/09\/this-week-in-fiction-dorthe-nors.html\" target=\"_blank\">Page-Turner<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s fun to take a look at the things that live in the shadow.\u201d\u00a0<strong>\u2014Justin Alvarez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our truest intimacies may not preclude pretenses. We fear this, and Eric Puchner perfectly conveys this fear. A novel that touches on goth-tinged, high-school poetry, real-estate ventures gone sour, and manic preteen genius, his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005CDTTDY\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B005CDTTDY&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Model Home<\/em><\/a> is a saga of deceptions in the closest of quarters. Although the characters are constantly on the verge of collapse, the writing itself never falters&mdash;it feels impossibly real. <strong>\u2014Taylor Anne Lane<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The summer after my first year of college, my boyfriend and I went backpacking in the West Country of England. On one tramp, we ended up, by happy chance, at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Potter\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Potter\u2019s Museum of Curiosities<\/a>, which was at that time attached to the Daphne du Maurier\u2013themed Jamaica Inn in Bolventor. Walter Potter was a taxidermist who made remarkable displays of anthropomorphic animals\u2014a red-squirrel gentleman\u2019s club, a kitten wedding\u2014all of which, by the way, had died of natural causes. The museum featured these tableaux, as well as the usual Victorian assortment of random\u00a0artifacts, deformed animals, and other natural curiosities. In 2003, the collection was auctioned piecemeal (despite Damien Hirst\u2019s attempt to keep it intact); to get a sense of its onetime majesty, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walterpottertaxidermy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Walter Potter&#8217;s Curious World of Taxidermy<\/em><\/a>, by Dr. Pat Norris. Or, to capture some of the true oddity of the experience, watch this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3TMQbZFSE5Y\" target=\"_blank\">unspeakably sinister video<\/a> of \u201cThe Death and Burial of Cock Robin.\u201d As my godmother commented after I posted the video to Facebook, \u201cThe bull&#8217;s awfully flat. And small. 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