{"id":72631,"date":"2014-06-13T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=72631"},"modified":"2019-02-05T11:02:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T16:02:05","slug":"what-were-loving-pop-stars-rock-stars-the-fault-in-our-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/13\/what-were-loving-pop-stars-rock-stars-the-fault-in-our-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"What We\u2019re Loving: Pop Stars, Rock Stars, <i>The Fault in Our Stars<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I read a dazzling novel about a starcrossed young couple and a reclusive, grouchy, alcoholic novelist who changes their lives. That was <em>Mao II<\/em>, by Don DeLillo. But in the middle of reading <em>Mao II<\/em>\u2014on the very same plane ride\u2014I dipped into a friend\u2019s copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780525478812\/john-green\/fault-our-stars?aff=theparisreview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Fault in Our Stars<\/em><\/a>. Somehow I had missed all the hype, and didn\u2019t know what to expect.\u00a0(Said my traveling companion: \u201cYou\u2019re already crying? You\u2019re what, two pages in?&#8221;) I finished the book one sitting later. More accurately, I was lying down, in a hammock, to obviate the need for a hanky. Among its many tear-jerking qualities, the book powerfully evokes the work of David Foster Wallace, the only real-life novelist who could fill the shoes of the fictional Van Houten.\u00a0As Laura Miller writes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/06\/06\/the_fault_in_our_stars_has_been_unfairly_bashed_by_critics_who_dont_understand_it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Salon<\/a>, <em>The Fault in Our Stars<\/em> is full of Wallace allusions; scenes like the one\u00a0where a teenager sobs over his girlfriend, while playing a first-person shooter game, read like Wallace come back to life\u2014if he came back and wrote for kids. In a week that saw the passing of the great children\u2019s-book publisher Frances Foster, <em>The Fault in Our Stars<\/em> filled me with hope for young readers, even as it made me mourn, all over again, for friends we\u2019ve lost. \u2014<strong>Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Britney Spears must be some kind of a journalistic muse. In 2008, David Samuels wrote about her in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2008\/04\/shooting-britney\/306735\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shooting Britney<\/a>,\u201d a perceptive look at the paparazzi and the surrogate intimacy of celebrity culture. Now, in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/matter\/miss-american-dream-31c823ad0e5a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miss American Dream<\/a>,\u201d Taffy Brodesser-Akner\u2014what a name!\u2014pulls back the curtain on Britney\u2019s new residency in Las Vegas. The piece gets inside the lurid pageantry that\u2019s become a prerequisite of \u201cBritneyplex, which is the enormous machine built around Britney Spears.\u201d It\u2019s also an acutely observed study of the longueurs of fame; moments of synapse-frying overstimulation are followed by episodes of surreal blandness. E.g.:<strong> \u201c<\/strong>She was sitting in a room in the semi-dark, slightly hunched over, a little bored, at the tail end of a daylong junket in which TV journalists asked her questions like \u2018What do people not know about you?\u2019 (\u2018Really that I\u2019m pretty boring.\u2019) and \u2018What was the craziest rumor you ever heard about yourself?\u2019 (\u2018That I died.\u2019)\u201d \u2014<strong>Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/articles\/u2-new-album-delay-this-year-tour-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One of these days<\/a>, U2 is going to release a new album\u2014in the meantime, there\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earwolf.com\/show\/u-talkin-u2-to-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U Talkin\u2019 U2 to Me?<\/a><\/em>, a bizarrely wonderful podcast I\u2019ve laughed out loud to on the subway. Described by its hosts (Scott Aukerman of <em>Comedy Bang! Bang!<\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UnW3xkHxIEQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Between Two Ferns<\/a><\/em>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mS_CvXj21uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Scott<\/a> from <em>Parks &amp; Recreation<\/em>) as \u201cthe comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium of all things U2,\u201d the show talks about U2 pretty sporadically, but it\u2019s worth checking out for the improvisations from the two Scotts, including a hysterical Harold-like game in which they make up fake podcasts within the world of the show, each with its own fictional history and quirks. This week\u2019s episode takes the form of an audio commentary on the podcast itself. It\u2019s even weirder than that sounds.\u00a0\u2014<strong>Chantal McStay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/06\/05\/rumi-quotes_n_5446566.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A recent article in the <em>Huffington Post<\/em><\/a> suggests reading Rumi for\u00a0a more meaningful life\u2014advice I found both unsurprising and unnerving. I come from a Persian household where Rumi\u2019s poetry was always at the literary forefront, but in more recent years, the poet\u2019s words have been reduced to captioning photos of perfectly timed sunsets and vast ocean views. I prefer the darker Rumi, even if a line like \u201cEither give me more wine or leave me alone\u201d isn\u2019t likely to inspire enthusiasm. Rumi\u2019s work is much too varied to be reduced. \u201cTwo there are who are never satisfied\u2014the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge,\u201d he wrote. 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