{"id":81022,"date":"2014-12-18T18:11:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T23:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=81022"},"modified":"2014-12-19T10:16:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:16:53","slug":"happy-haneke-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/18\/happy-haneke-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Haneke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_81023\" style=\"width: 609px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/haneke.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81023\" class=\"wp-image-81023 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/haneke.png\" alt=\"haneke\" width=\"599\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/haneke.png 599w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/haneke-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81023\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from Haneke\u2019s <i>The White Ribbon<\/i>, lovingly altered by Luisa Zielinski.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Three simple facts:<\/p>\n<p>1. It\u2019s the third night of Hanukkah.<\/p>\n<p>2. Our new issue features <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6354\/the-art-of-screenwriting-no-5-michael-haneke\">the Art of Screenwriting No. 5<\/a>, an interview with Michael Haneke.<\/p>\n<p>3.<em> Haneke <\/em>and <em>Hanukkah <\/em>are pronounced in very nearly the same fashion.<\/p>\n<p>A disinterested observer might chalk this up to mere coincidence. That observer would be correct. Still, you may consider, during these eight nights of gift-giving, capitalizing on the Haneke\/Hanukkah near-homonym and presenting your loved one with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/subscribe\/gifts\" target=\"_blank\">a subscription to <em>The Paris Review<\/em><\/a>, starting with our Haneke issue\u2014just forty dollars for a year\u2019s supply of fiction, poetry, interviews, and art, including a postcard announcing your gift with a personal message. They make a great present for aspiring writers, who should, in the words of William Kennedy, \u201cread the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of <em>The Paris Review<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And our thanks to our interviewer, Luisa Zielinski,\u00a0for sending along the highly appropriate greeting above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three simple facts: 1. It\u2019s the third night of Hanukkah. 2. Our new issue features the Art of Screenwriting No. 5, an interview with Michael Haneke. 3. Haneke and Hanukkah are pronounced in very nearly the same fashion. A disinterested observer might chalk this up to mere coincidence. That observer would be correct. 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