{"id":81518,"date":"2015-01-13T12:23:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T17:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=81518"},"modified":"2015-01-13T13:18:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T18:18:53","slug":"dear-critics-you-heard-it-here-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/13\/dear-critics-you-heard-it-here-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Critics: You Heard It Here First"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_81524\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81524\" class=\"wp-image-81524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk1.jpg\" alt=\"Cusk1\" width=\"600\" height=\"868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk1.jpg 1894w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk1-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk1-707x1024.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration: Samantha Hahn<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although Rachel Cusk\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780374228347\">Outline<\/a><\/em> has not been available in hardcover until today, it\u2019s already enjoyed a wild succ\u00e8s d\u2019estime with some of our favorite critics. Last Wednesday, in the <em>New York\u00a0Times<\/em>, Dwight Garner called it \u201ctransfixing \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/07\/books\/outline-rachel-cusks-new-novel.html\" target=\"_blank\">You find yourself pulling the novel closer to your face<\/a>, as if it were a thriller and the hero were dangling over a snake pit.\u201d In <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, Elaine Blair used <em>Outline<\/em> as the occasion for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/01\/05\/told-2\" target=\"_blank\">a trenchant essay on fiction and autobiography<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The novel is mesmerizing; it marks a sharp break from the conventional style of Cusk\u2019s previous work \u2026 Cusk\u2019s insight in <em>Outline<\/em> is that, instead of trying to show two sides of a marriage, she might do the opposite: focus on the inevitable, treacherous one-sidedness of any single account [which] surely has something to do with why marriages themselves come apart.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the<em> Guardian<\/em>, Hilary Mantel described <em>Outline<\/em> as \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/nov\/29\/-sp-writers-pick-best-books-2014\" target=\"_blank\">fascinating, both on the surface and in its depths<\/a>.\u201d <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookforum.com\/inprint\/021_04\">Bookforum<\/a><\/em>\u2019s Hannah Tennant-Moore called it \u201clovely \u2026 smart, ascetic\u201d; and in the most recent <em>New York\u00a0Times Book Review<\/em> Heidi Julavits raved: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/11\/books\/review\/rachel-cusks-outline.html\" target=\"_blank\">Spend much time with this novel<\/a> and you\u2019ll become convinced [Cusk] is one of the smartest writers alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>None of this will come as news to readers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/subscribe\"><em>The Paris Review<\/em><\/a>\u2014because, <a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/tag\/issue-207\/\">starting\u00a0with our Winter 2013 issue<\/a>,\u00a0we published <em>Outline<\/em> in its entirety, with exclusive illustrations by Samantha Hahn. Here\u2019s a slide show to celebrate the U.S. hardcover publication, and to remind our colleagues in the reviewing business\u00a0where they can find\u00a0the most transfixing, mesmerizing, fascinating, lovely fiction of 2016.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk2.jpg\" alt=\"Cusk2\" width=\"600\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk2.jpg 1854w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk2-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk2-698x1024.jpg 698w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-81525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk3.jpg\" alt=\"Cusk3\" width=\"600\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk3.jpg 1760w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk3-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk3-723x1024.jpg 723w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-81523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk4.jpg\" alt=\"Cusk4\" width=\"600\" height=\"954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk4.jpg 1661w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk4-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk4-644x1024.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-81521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk5.jpg\" alt=\"Cusk5\" width=\"600\" height=\"871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk5.jpg 1822w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk5-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk5-705x1024.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk6i.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-81527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk6i.jpg\" alt=\"Cusk6i\" width=\"600\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk6i.jpg 2056w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk6i-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk6i-811x1024.jpg 811w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk7.jpg\" alt=\"Cusk7\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk7.jpg 1640w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk7-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/cusk7-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Rachel Cusk\u2019s Outline has not been available in hardcover until today, it\u2019s already enjoyed a wild succ\u00e8s d\u2019estime with some of our favorite critics. Last Wednesday, in the New York\u00a0Times, Dwight Garner called it \u201ctransfixing \u2026 You find yourself pulling the novel closer to your face, as if it were a thriller and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2559],"tags":[16587,16586,2814,4158,71,16585,599,2153,12287,16584,12043,477,16583],"class_list":["post-81518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin","tag-contemporary-novels","tag-critics","tag-dwight-garner","tag-elaine-blair","tag-fiction","tag-hannah-tennant-moore","tag-heidi-julavits","tag-hilary-mantel","tag-issue-207","tag-outline","tag-rachel-cusk","tag-reviews","tag-samantha-hahn"],"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>Samantha Hahn\u2019s Beautiful Illustrations for Rachel Cusk\u2019s \u201cOutline\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rachel Cusk\u2019s new novel is out today. 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