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\"bobbsey\"<\/a>

The Bobbsey Twins series.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s a heaven,\u201d my mom said recently, \u201cI imagine it\u2019s filled with brand-new Barbara Pym novels I\u2019ve never read.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a particular desolation to finding you\u2019ve reached the end of a beloved author\u2019s body of work. Just as discovering a writer can give you a\u00a0where-have-you-been-all-my-life<\/em>\u00a0thrill, it\u2019s easy to feel bereft when you\u2019ve exhausted the trove\u2014especially if the author in question has been dead for some forty years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In an era of easily accessible books, this poses certain questions. Once, you might have had to put yourself on a list at the library, wait for a call, or line up at a bookstore at\u00a0midnight\u2014now the next title can appear on your phone the moment it\u2019s available. Do you take the glutton\u2019s approach\u2014binging, immersing yourself\u2014or do you mete out the treasures carefully?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maybe that\u2019s part of why so many series are so long now. People have always gone in for serials, from David Copperfield<\/em> to the Bobbsey Twins. But we do seem particularly enamored of the form these days; any YA section is basically color-blocks of uninterrupted spines, volume after volume of adventures and mysteries and feuds. Has TV conditioned us to regard a stand-alone story as paltry, inadequate, or do we just crave the escape more? And let\u2019s not forget the commercial incentive. (It does seem telling when a series like Fifty Shades<\/em>\u2014manifestly a single, albeit endless, story\u2014is arbitrarily chopped into three parts.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

But for all of these endless series, the finite nature of a dead author\u2019s oeuvre is something we can\u2019t imagine away. It\u2019s enough to make you understand the anxious rage\u00a0Game of Thrones<\/em>\u00a0fans feel at the dilatory George R. R. Martin. Or\u2014almost\u2014the presumption underscoring unofficial sequels like Alexandra Ripley\u2019s Scarlett<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll admit it: there have been moments when I\u2019ve almost wanted to create another volume of Betsy-Tacy\u2014Maud Hart Lovelace\u2019s autobiographical series of nine volumes detailing the character\u2019s life from five to twenty-five. Specifically,\u00a0Betsy\u2019s Bettina. <\/em>In 1959\u2014after the publication of the final book, Betsy\u2019s Wedding<\/em>\u2014an article tantalized fans thusly:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Coming to the end of\u00a0Betsy\u2019s Wedding,\u00a0<\/em>Betsy\u2019s fans are a little sad, not only because Joe has gone to camp and will soon be going overseas, but because it is the last\u00a0Betsy-Tacy<\/em>\u00a0book.<\/p>\n

While in the opinion of one enthusiastic reader, \u201cBetsy books should go on forever,\u201d Mrs. Lovelace is not quite willing to continue the books into another generation. However, she does have plans for the final book in the series, which she is going to call\u00a0Betsy\u2019s Bettina<\/em>. She feels, as the children do, that it is not right to leave Joe overseas and that to end the stories happily, Betsy should have a baby.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ultimately, Lovelace changed her mind. She wrote, \u201cI did a little research on it but I didn\u2019t care to write it,\u201d and that \u201cI have always felt that the last lines in\u00a0Betsy\u2019s Wedding<\/em>\u00a0were a perfect ending for the series.\u201d It\u2019s hard to argue with her there. Besides, as any reader of Mrs. de Winter<\/em>\u2014<\/em>Susan Hill\u2019s sequel to du Maurier\u2019s Rebecca<\/em>\u2014<\/em>can tell you, being a superfan does not qualify you to hijack characters, no matter how well you feel you know them. When a writer\u2019s gone, she\u2019s gone, and we can\u2019t argue it away.<\/p>\n

Perhaps this is part of the appeal of a series like Sweet Valley High, for which Francine Pascal presided over a team of ghostwriters. The \u201cauthor\u201d can come and go, hewing to the formula no matter what. It\u2019s a sort of immortality, or the illusion of it. And that, of course, precludes the need for my mom\u2019s heaven.<\/p>\n

Sadie Stein is contributing editor of <\/em>The Paris Review, and the <\/em>Daily\u2019s correspondent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Just as discovering a writer can give you a\u00a0where-have-you-been-all-my-life\u00a0thrill, it\u2019s easy to feel bereft when you\u2019ve exhausted the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13115],"tags":[3528,5338,17522,3709,4841,17523,2843,17520,17521],"class_list":["post-83893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-daily-correspondent","tag-barbara-pym","tag-betsy-tacy","tag-bobbsey-twins","tag-george-r-r-martin","tag-maud-hart-lovelace","tag-mrs-de-winter","tag-rebecca","tag-serialization","tag-series"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhen Should a Series End?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Our recent fascination with serialization has made standalone stories seem quaint\u2014but does everything have to serialized?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/ideas-of-heaven\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ideas of Heaven by Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"March 23, 2015 \u2013 \u201cIf there\u2019s a heaven,\u201d my mom said recently, \u201cI imagine it\u2019s filled with brand-new Barbara Pym novels I\u2019ve never read.\u201d\u00a0 There\u2019s a particular desolation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/ideas-of-heaven\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-03-23T19:43:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-03-23T20:13:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bobbsey.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"533\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/ideas-of-heaven\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/ideas-of-heaven\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sadie Stein\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9\"},\"headline\":\"Ideas of Heaven\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-03-23T19:43:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-03-23T20:13:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/ideas-of-heaven\/\"},\"wordCount\":673,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/ideas-of-heaven\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bobbsey.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Barbara Pym\",\"Betsy-Tacy\",\"Bobbsey Twins\",\"George R.R. 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