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The United States Department of Agriculture Color Standards for Frozen French\u00a0Fried Potatoes.<\/p><\/div>\n

According to Don DeLillo, he was surprised when a publisher accepted the \u201cshaggy and overdone\u201d first draft of his first novel, Americana<\/a><\/em>. Almost fifty years\u2014and several revisions\u2014later, the story of Dave Bell, a disillusioned network executive who hits the road to discover America, retains a certain amount of shag. But already DeLillo\u2019s dialogue has its own look and sound. This is speech in the age of mechanical reproduction, the reel to reel, the dictaphone, the transcript. His characters are spirits captured in\u00a0stuff<\/em>: \u201cClevenger\u2019s paleolithic lavender Cadillac was equipped with air conditioning, deep-pile carpeting, padded instrument panel, stereo tape system and a burglar alarm. Behind the wheel he seemed a veteran jockey not at all awed by the magnificence of his own colors. He was about fifty, a small man with a neck of Playa clay traversed by wide deep ridges. Clevenger was a Texan.\u201d The stuff itself has aged, but this only adds to the sense of magical evocation. Americana<\/em> has aged into a time capsule, deep-pile carpeting and all. \u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been reading Jean Merrill\u2019s The Pushcart War<\/a><\/em> (NYRB\u2019s fiftieth anniversary edition) to my son every night, a few chapters at a time. It\u2019s often the only way I can coax him out of his Harry Potter books to get ready for bed. In truth, I\u2019m as excited as he is to read it. The tale of New York\u2019s pushcart peddlers waging war against the monstrous, bullying trucks is droll\u2014as are Ronni Solbert\u2019s illustrations\u2014but its message remains urgent; Merrill writes expansively, giving air to the intrigue, to the peddler\u2019s personalities, and to what\u2019s at stake for people who don\u2019t have money or influence. When the peace-loving peddler who sleeps under his cart every night is finally driven to anger and despair\u2014and is forced to sleep indoors for the first time in seventy years\u2014the frustration is nearly unendurable. My son has asked me more than once if the story is real. It\u2019s not, of course, and what a shame, but it\u2019s an entertaining lesson on nonviolent civil disobedience, standing up for the rights and the dignity of the little guy, and how to make a sturdy peashooter. \u2014Nicole Rudick
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Longtime readers of the\u00a0Daily<\/em>\u00a0might remember our 2013 foray into the\u00a0seedy underworld<\/span>\u00a0ever more profitable world<\/a>\u00a0of Reddit, where we fielded an array of questions from a pleasantly shrewd\u2014if sometimes peculiar<\/a>\u2014audience. Fast-forward to the present, where the last few weeks on \/r\/iAMA have been unmatched in their appeal:\u00a0Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras, and Glenn Greenwald<\/a>\u00a0have made appearances, as have\u00a0David Cross<\/a>,\u00a0James Randi<\/a>, and (here we go)\u00a0the Redditor who sold a script to Warner Bros<\/a>\u2014a script, of course, that he originally drafted in a Reddit thread. There\u2019s something about the form of Reddit\u2019s AMAs\u2014their utilitarian formatting, the democratization of how questions are valued and, ultimately, addressed\u2014that satiates a broad spectrum of my curiosities, from the profound to the lighthearted. But what hooks me more than\u00a0anything else is certain Redditors\u2019 real-time grappling with the significance of the exchanges, particularly given the ever-apparent bizarreness of the medium. Take, for example, the replies to\u00a0this response<\/a>\u00a0from Edward Snowden, one in which he addresses how we might bring the NSA\u2019s spying schemes to the forefront in the 2016 election. When one commenter likens Snowden\u2019s response to Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s \u201cLetter from Birmingham Jail,\u201d others chime in to imagine how it might be cited in the history books of the future. (\u201cSnowden\u2019s \u2018Impromptu Response on a Pre-Brainosphere Primitive Network,\u2019\u2009\u201d suggests \/u\/CopaceticOpus.) It\u2019s the sort of banter one might expect from a Web site that, represented for so long as a rabbit hole for cute GIFs and clever memes, has come to attract\u2014if uncomfortably so\u2014some of contemporary society\u2019s most influential thinkers. \u2014Stephen Andrew Hiltner
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The latest issue of Cabinet<\/a><\/em> is full of incisive writing, but I have to single out George Pendle\u2019s chronicle of our \u201cchromatic palate\u201d\u2014our synesthetic tendency to taste food with our eyes\u2014for special mention, not least because it\u2019s introduced me to a marvelous document: the United States Department of Agriculture Color Standards for Frozen French Fried Potatoes<\/a>, an ideal marriage of form and function. Pendle provides a wise, witty tour of the standards, which exemplify what he calls \u201cthe rich emotional terroir\u201d of our food and eating habits: \u201cThere is the blanched and insubstantial \u2018000,\u2019 more pomme d\u2019air <\/em>than pomme de terre<\/em> \u2026 \u20181,\u2019 the platonic french fry, as perfectly tanned as a matinee idol; it demands, almost pleads, to be reverse piked into a glistening pool of ketchup. And then there is the grubby bronze of \u20184,\u2019 the creation of a short-order deity who lingered too long over his creation, a Caliban among the spudocracy.\u201d \u2014Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><\/p>\n

Holly Golightly\u2019s famous line \u201cI\u2019ve always been top banana in the shock department\u201d sprang to mind as I read On the Way to Work<\/a><\/em>, a set of ten conversations between Gordon Burn and Damien Hirst. These interviews span 1992 to 2001, charting Hirst\u2019s rise as the art world\u2019s enfant terrible. Their talk is sprinkled with the usual fuck-the-establishment (until you become it) egotism\u2014\u201cI arrived at Goldsmiths\u2019 and thought, this is shit and these little fucking collages of mine are brilliant\u201d\u2014but also remarkable candor on topics ranging from sex to Saatchi to substance abuse. Hirst opens up about his working-class North England upbringing, his experiences with love and fatherhood. His is a sort of roughhouse erudition; he\u2019s playful with the influence he\u2019s garnered but earnest about his artistic output. Above all, he\u2019s fiercely articulate\u2014he comes across as somebody who\u2019s in on the joke, and he doesn\u2019t care who else (if anyone else) is laughing. \u2014Kit Connolly<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sentimentality sometimes seems like a given in coming-of-age stories; fortunately, Karim Dimechkie\u2019s debut, Lifted by the Great Nothing<\/a><\/em>, avoids it at every turn. The novel centers on Max, a teen who lives with his father, Rasheed, in a New Jersey suburb; the pair emigrated from Beirut under mysterious circumstances when Max was a baby. As Rasheed tells it, the rest of the family was murdered; he doesn\u2019t elaborate further, and his son doesn\u2019t ask. \u201cWhen we are in America,\u201d Rasheed says, \u201cwe are Americans.\u201d A rendering of a family torn apart not only by a civil war, but by a stubborn unwillingness to concede to the differences within itself, Lifted by the Great Nothing<\/em> is awkward, challenging, and funny. It\u2019s sharp and frank\u2014and, like any good family, it stays with you. \u2014Andrew Jimenez<\/strong><\/p>\n

All twelve stories in Nicole Haroutunian\u2019s slender debut, Speed Dreaming<\/a><\/em>, pull their weight. My favorite, \u201cA Cane, An Anchor,\u201d centers on a couple who must live with the husband\u2019s parents after a fire burns down their house; the caustic language and careful setting reminded me of A. M Homes. Haroutunian is smart about contemporary relationships, and her collection will certainly resonant with the Modern Love crowd. Her protagonists, all women, admit to melodrama, but they go one step further than the characters in Girls<\/em> in that they question what\u2019s behind their woe-is-me antics. Through their honesty, we get characters we actually like, who illuminate what it means to be a woman outside of Lena Dunham\u2019s \u201cBrooklyn.\u201d \u2014Matthew Caprioli<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Don DeLillo, he was surprised when a publisher accepted the \u201cshaggy and overdone\u201d first draft of his first novel, Americana. Almost fifty years\u2014and several revisions\u2014later, the story of Dave Bell, a disillusioned network executive who hits the road to discover America, retains a certain amount of shag. 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