{"id":75986,"date":"2014-08-26T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=75986"},"modified":"2014-08-26T09:16:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T13:16:16","slug":"horseback-balloonist-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/26\/horseback-balloonist-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Horseback Balloonist, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_75988\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pierre-testu-brissy-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75988\" class=\"wp-image-75988 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pierre-testu-brissy-1.jpg\" alt=\"Pierre-Testu-Brissy-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-75988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What one did for fun in the eighteenth century. Image via Retronaut<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Blootered<\/em>, <em>plonked<\/em>, <em>fuddled<\/em>, <em>muckibus<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/118711\/almost-complete-list-every-word-weve-ever-used-mean-drunk?utm_content=bufferc8705&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">what we talk about when we talk about getting wasted<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/aug\/24\/rachel-cusk-interview-aftermath-outline\" target=\"_blank\">An interview with Rachel Cusk<\/a>, whose new novel, <em>Outline<\/em>, is serialized in <em>The Paris Review<\/em>: \u201cI\u2019m certain autobiography is increasingly the only form in all the arts. Description, character\u2014these are dead or dying in reality as well as in art.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>James Wood on James Kelman: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2014\/08\/25\/away-thinking-things?utm_source=tny&amp;utm_campaign=generalsocial&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;mbid=social_twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Kelman\u2019s language is immediately exciting<\/a>; like a musician, he uses repetition and rhythm to build structures out of short flights and circular meanderings. The working-class Glaswegian author knows exactly how his words will scathe delicate skins; he has a fine sense of attack.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In the UK, literature in translation is enjoying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/aug\/24\/british-readers-translations-foreign-literature-sales-boom-stieg-larsson-jo-nesbo\" target=\"_blank\">a surge in popularity<\/a>. \u201cThere used to be a feeling translations were \u2018good for you\u2019 and not enjoyable \u2026 like vegetables \u2026 But actually they\u2019re wonderful books.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPierre Testu-Brissy was a pioneering French balloonist who achieved fame for making many flights astride animals, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retronaut.com\/2014\/08\/pierre-testu-brissy-horseback-balloonist\/\" target=\"_blank\">particularly horses<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blootered, plonked, fuddled, muckibus: what we talk about when we talk about getting wasted. An interview with Rachel Cusk, whose new novel, Outline, is serialized in The Paris Review: \u201cI\u2019m certain autobiography is increasingly the only form in all the arts. Description, character\u2014these are dead or dying in reality as well as in art.\u201d James [&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":[15106,8031,2813,15105,14250,12043],"class_list":["post-75986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-ballooning","tag-drunkenness","tag-horses","tag-james-kelman","tag-literature-in-translation","tag-rachel-cusk"],"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 News Roundup for August 26, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The horseback balloonist Pierre Testu-Brissy, what we talk about when we talk about getting wasted, and other 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\/08\/26\/horseback-balloonist-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Horseback Balloonist, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"August 26, 2014 \u2013 Blootered, plonked, fuddled, muckibus: what we talk about when we talk about getting wasted. 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