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From the cover of the new translation of Alexander Kluge\u2019s Air Raid<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Last night, I finished Gerald Murnane\u2019s The Plains<\/a><\/em>, and this morning I started reading it again. It\u2019s the story of a filmmaker who travels from the coast of Australia into the plains of the interior, where instead of flyblown pit stops he encounters a society of vast estates\u2014latifundia<\/em> meets British manor house\u2014whose culture is based on avant-garde poetics and the art of heraldry. The plainsmen are melancholy philosophers whose koans would have made T. S. Eliot proud: \u201cI\u2019ve spent my life trying to see my own place as the end of a journey I never made,\u201d one says into his beer. Murnane is a careful stylist and a slyly comic writer with large ideas. I know it\u2019s the antipodes, but it\u2019s hard to fathom why he isn\u2019t a little <\/em>better known here. \u2014Robyn Creswell<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been caught up in Alexander Kluge\u2019s masterpiece Air Raid<\/a> <\/em>(1977), finally available in English\u2014an unsettlingly oblique remembrance of the events of April 8, 1945, when Americans carpet bombed Halberstadt, a German town of no particular significance to the war effort. Eighty percent of the place was destroyed and thousands died; Kluge, who lived there, was thirteen at the time. Air Raid<\/em> is composed of fragments: diagrams, photographs, interviews, vignettes of survivors. In Kluge\u2019s affectless prose, the manager of a bombed movie theater watches as her patrons\u2019 corpses are boiled by the hot water gushing from an exposed pipe; a confused cemetery groundskeeper goes to sleep in an open grave. The book is part fiction and part reportage, but Kluge makes no effort to say which is which; in fact, many of its more explicitly documentary sections, such as a long interview with an American brigadier, are entirely fabricated. It\u2019s an affecting puzzle about the destabilized narratives of war. The reader has to construct some semblance of a story from the rubble. \u2014Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><\/p>\n

While everyone is talking about Serial<\/em>, you should be listening to another This American Life<\/em> alum\u2019s podcast, StartUp<\/a><\/em>, in which Alex Blumberg attempts to launch his podcast start-up. (He\u2019s aware of how meta this is.) Blumberg makes a failure of a pitch to venture investor Chris Sacca; he compares the search for a business partner to the awkwardness of the dating world. The podcast is a fascinating and insightful look at the nature of business. As Blumberg reflects, \u201cYou think it\u2019s about numbers and bottom lines\u2014but really it\u2019s just about raw feelings?\u201d \u2014Justin Alvarez<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott McClanahan has a new essay on The Fader\u2019<\/em>s Web site<\/a> about how his love for Little Jimmy Dickens, and his wife\u2019s dislike for\u00a0the diminutive country star,\u00a0broke up their marriage\u2014or at least he should have taken her antipathy for\u00a0Dickens\u00a0as a sign. The essay traces his\u00a0understanding of an aspect of his life through the filter of\u00a0music, but it\u2019s not the kind of autobiographical piece that retrospectively bestows wisdom and clarity on one\u2019s life\u2014the artificiality that ruins so many memoirs. McClanahan\u2019s writing, both fiction and nonfiction, has the feel of real storytelling and often of catharsis; he writes a kind of ballad (or, in this case, maybe an antiballad) that country music does so well.\u00a0Of Dickens\u2019s most famous song, \u201cMay the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose,\u201d McClanahan writes, \u201cIt was a song not interested in telling you about the mind of the insane, but one that wanted to produce that state of mind in the listener. It was a spell, a fever, a curse.\u201d That\u2019s a good description of the way McClanahan crafts a tale, too.\u00a0\u2014Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n

As a kid, I would watch Forrest Gump<\/em> every day. I don\u2019t remember why, but I do remember the day the VHS tape started to deteriorate: as Forrest ran out of the football stadium, the crowd yelling for him to stop, the sound morphed out of sync with the image. I enjoyed this: it was a kind of personal imprint, like a folded page in a well-read book. I thought of this moment as I made my way through Nicholas Rombes\u2019s excellent and nightmarish The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing<\/a><\/em>, about a writer\u2019s search for a lost filmmaker. Through various conversations between the writer and filmmaker\u2014who has destroyed many of his own films\u2014Rombes explores the thin line between fiction and reality, \u201csomething there, in between the frames, something that wasn\u2019t quite an image and wasn\u2019t quite a sound … an impossibility that, because it expressed or represented a new way of being, had to be destroyed.\u201d As my copy of Forrest Gump<\/em> further deteriorated, I would have to describe the missing scenes whenever my friends and family watched the tape. Over time, my descriptions transformed into something much different than the scenes themselves had been, as a DVD copy later proved. Rombes\u2019s novel is a love letter to this art of misremembering: these \u201cdestroyed films\u201d become as real as any film playing in a theater near you. \u2014J.A.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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