{"id":65130,"date":"2014-01-17T09:45:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T14:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=65130"},"modified":"2014-01-17T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T14:30:32","slug":"cinemas-most-realistic-psychopath-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/17\/cinemas-most-realistic-psychopath-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinema\u2019s Most Realistic Psychopath, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_65132\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/anton-chigurh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65132\" class=\"size-large wp-image-65132 \" alt=\"anton chigurh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/anton-chigurh-1024x680.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-65132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from <i>No Country for Old Men<\/i>, 2007.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/electricliterature.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/14\/gordon-lish-bot-takes-his-red-pen-to-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Gordon Lish Bot is trolling Twitter<\/a>, demanding that writers craft their 140 characters more meticulously. It\u2019s fine invective, but masochists will wish for the sting of the real thing.<\/li>\n<li>Science has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/video\/video\/2014\/01\/most_realistic_movie_psychos_how_real_are_hannibal_lecter_norman_bates_and.html\" target=\"_blank\">cast its formidable gaze on movie psychopaths<\/a>, declaring <i>No Country for Old Men<\/i>\u2019s Anton Chigurh the most \u201crealistic.\u201d And yet no one, living or dead, has ever dared to sport that haircut.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/kateaurthur\/the-ghost-of-vc-andrews-the-life-death-and-afterlife-of-the\" target=\"_blank\">curiously robust posthumous life<\/a> of V.&thinsp;C. Andrews.<\/li>\n<li>Lewis Carroll\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/steve-leveen\/how-lewis-carroll-can-imp_b_4590584.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003\" target=\"_blank\">Wise Words About Letter-Writing<\/a>\u201d still apply in the lawless land of electronic mail.<\/li>\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymptotejournal.com\/article.php?cat=Visual&amp;id=32&amp;curr_index=28&amp;curPage=current\" target=\"_blank\">introduction to Korean alphabet art<\/a> is full of colorful translations: \u201cUsing a dustpan, the black mountain is split to form letters, and then the canvas is propped up vertically, and stains caused by gravity are left behind.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gordon Lish Bot is trolling Twitter, demanding that writers craft their 140 characters more meticulously. It\u2019s fine invective, but masochists will wish for the sting of the real thing. Science has cast its formidable gaze on movie psychopaths, declaring No Country for Old Men\u2019s Anton Chigurh the most \u201crealistic.\u201d And yet no one, living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[12586,2282,12588,594,12585,12587,12219],"class_list":["post-65130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-anton-chigurh","tag-gordon-lish","tag-korean-alphabet-art","tag-lewis-carroll","tag-no-country-for-old-men","tag-psychopathy","tag-v-c-andrews"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Morning Roundup for January 17, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A roundup of books, arts, and culture news\" \/>\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\/2014\/01\/17\/cinemas-most-realistic-psychopath-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cinema\u2019s Most Realistic Psychopath, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"January 17, 2014 \u2013 The Gordon Lish Bot is trolling Twitter, demanding that writers craft their 140 characters more meticulously. 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