{"id":83194,"date":"2015-03-02T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=83194"},"modified":"2015-03-02T07:41:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T12:41:48","slug":"ink-and-paper-and-repetition-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/02\/ink-and-paper-and-repetition-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ink and Paper and Repetition, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_83192\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tolmansuburbs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83192\" class=\"wp-image-83192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tolmansuburbs.jpg\" alt=\"tolmansuburbs\" width=\"600\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-83192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Tolman,\u00a0<i>Suburbs\u00a0<\/i>(detail), 2012, ink on paper.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>What makes certain writing publishable while the rest of it, the bulk of it, is consigned to the slag heap? Kenneth Goldsmith\u2019s UbuWeb has launched Publishing the Unpublishable,\u201d a series of e-books <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/ubu-publishes-the-unpublishable-872\" target=\"_blank\">dedicated to challenging the precepts of literary merit<\/a>. \u201cIf nothing else, the chance to stare into the face of deletion and creep around in the bins of what might never have been gives us the chance to see the world a completely different way.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksandculture.com\/articles\/2015\/marapr\/novel-as-protestant-art.html?paging=off\" target=\"_blank\">Protestantism, Catholicism, and their varying approaches to the novel<\/a>: \u201cTo write a Catholic novel is thus to attempt something a little tricky, a little verging on the self-contradictory. And when a Catholic-aiming novel fails, it typically fails because it is at war with its own form \u2026 To write a Protestant novel is, instead, to do something a little unnecessary, a little verging on the redundant. And when a deliberately Protestant novel fails, it often fails because it seems didactic and preachy, engaged in what the art form itself promises that readers can take for granted.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>John Jeremiah Sullivan and Joel Finsel \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordamerican.org\/item\/541-editor-love\" target=\"_blank\">on Texas, old newspapers, race music, and\u00a0two black lives that shaped the history of civil rights<\/a>\u201d: \u201cThe <em>Freeman<\/em> ranks among the defining cultural expressions of black Houston \u2026 A single copy survives, physically, digitally, in any form, that we know of \u2026 In 1940, a man named Carter W. Wesley, a black publisher who\u2019d at first worked under Love and later assumed control of the <em>Freeman<\/em> enterprise, lamented in print \u2026 that nobody appeared to possess a solitary copy of this great newspaper, which had started everything. Well, paper is useful\u2014it gets used\u2014especially by people who don\u2019t have money to buy more.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMore than six feel tall and four feet wide, <em>Suburbs<\/em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/design\/2015\/02\/an-artists-dark-but-loving-graphic-ode-to-suburbia\/386309\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Tolman\u2019s interpretation of the Wheaton, Maryland, community he called his home as a kid<\/a>. Composing the drawing took six months: five days a week, fourteen hours each day, just ink and paper and repetition \u2026 the houses themselves are all faithful depictions. He inked each of the buildings based on photographs of the houses surrounding his own former home.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The Mexican writer Sergio Pitol on <a href=\"http:\/\/bombmagazine.org\/article\/3698226\/a-vindication-of-hypnosis\" target=\"_blank\">smoking, hypnosis, and prose style<\/a>: \u201cI feel incapable of describing any action, no matter how simple, in a direct way. I said that other writers were able to do that, which did not mean I was less competent than they. In my case, plain and naked exposition, without flourishes, without detours, without echoes or shadows, fatally diminishes the efficiency of the story, converts it into a mere anecdote; a vulgarity, when all is said and done.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes certain writing publishable while the rest of it, the bulk of it, is consigned to the slag heap? 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