{"id":82595,"date":"2015-02-11T09:30:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T14:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=82595"},"modified":"2015-02-11T10:21:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:21:02","slug":"readers-demand-more-grandparents-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/readers-demand-more-grandparents-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Readers Demand More Grandparents, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_82597\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/grandparents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-82597\" class=\"wp-image-82597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/grandparents.jpg\" alt=\"grandparents\" width=\"600\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/grandparents.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/grandparents-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-82597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fiction: A grandparent-free zone?<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Museums around the world are motioning <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/thecut\/2015\/02\/museums-politely-forbid-selfie-sticks.html?mid=twitter_nymag\" target=\"_blank\">to ban selfie sticks<\/a>, those, sleek, obtrusive icons of narcissism. \u201cWhile its elongated form might have some structural merits and it inspires a devoted gaze just from standing below it, it simply detracts from other pieces in the collection in a rather pedestrian fashion. So, like groundbreaking art forms before it, the selfie stick will just have to patiently wait for times to change before it receives its artistic due.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>On Tom McCarthy\u2019s new novel, <em>Satin Island<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookforum.com\/inprint\/021_05\/14155\" target=\"_blank\">as a rewiring of avant-garde fiction<\/a>: \u201cConvergences, nodes and relays, interstices: This is precisely the lexicon of the midcentury avant-garde McCarthy once found so useful and influential. But where this abstract-concrete thinking \u2026 once seemed urgent and perhaps even politically salient, now it just seems like clich\u00e9. Actually, worse than clich\u00e9: commercial and pernicious. The avant-garde\u2019s work has been inherited by the corporation.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>This is not your beautiful house. This is not your beautiful wife. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/france\/11401881\/Picasso-trial-So-how-did-French-couple-come-by-50m-art-hoard.html\" target=\"_blank\">This is not your beautiful art<\/a>: \u201cA retired odd job man and electrician and his wife stand trial on Tuesday, accused of illegally possessing 271 works by Pablo Picasso \u2026 Mr. Le Guennec claims that he was given the collection by the artist and his second wife Jacqueline when he carried out odd jobs for them more than forty years ago.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Contemporary fiction is cool and all, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2015\/feb\/11\/where-grandparents-in-modern-fiction?utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it\" target=\"_blank\">why aren\u2019t there more grandparents in it<\/a>? Grandparents are cool, too, you know. \u201cLook around current adult fiction and there\u2019s little writing about grandparents as grandparents. You can find forever-young baby boomer grandmas falling in love at sixty and novels about spirited older women finding self-fulfillment, but novels about grandparents\u2019 relationships with their grandchildren seem in short supply.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2015\/02\/10\/philip_k_dick_s_1969_novel_ubik_on_the_internet_of_things.html?wpsrc=fol_tw\" target=\"_blank\">Philip K. Dick\u2019s work reveals its prescience yet again<\/a>: in his 1969 novel <em>Ubik<\/em>, \u201ccharacters have to negotiate the way they move and how they communicate with inanimate objects that monitor them, lock them out, and force payments.\u201d Meanwhile, in the reality of 2015, Samsung invents a television that captures \u201cpersonal or other sensitive\u201d information for transmission to a third party \u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Museums around the world are motioning to ban selfie sticks, those, sleek, obtrusive icons of narcissism. \u201cWhile its elongated form might have some structural merits and it inspires a devoted gaze just from standing below it, it simply detracts from other pieces in the collection in a rather pedestrian fashion. 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