{"id":83928,"date":"2015-03-24T08:25:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T12:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=83928"},"modified":"2015-03-24T10:05:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T14:05:29","slug":"the-patron-saint-of-inveighing-against-stuff-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/24\/the-patron-saint-of-inveighing-against-stuff-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Patron Saint of Inveighing Against Stuff, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_83930\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/g.k._chesterton_low.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83930\" class=\"wp-image-83930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/g.k._chesterton_low.jpg\" alt=\"G.K._Chesterton_Low\" width=\"600\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/g.k._chesterton_low.jpg 876w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/g.k._chesterton_low-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-83930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pray to G. K. Chesterton.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Congratulations to Akhil Sharma, whose novel <em>Family Life <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/mar\/23\/akhil-sharma-wins-folio-prize-fiction-family-life\" target=\"_blank\">has won the Folio Prize<\/a>. Writing the book, Sharma said, was \u201clike chewing stones\u201d: \u201cI\u2019m glad the book exists, I just wish I hadn\u2019t been the guy who wrote it.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe traditional complaint about teenagers\u2014that they treat the place like a hotel\u2014has no purchase on me. In fact, I quite like the idea. A hotel is a place where you can come and go autonomously and with dignity; a place where you will not be subjected to criticism, blame or guilt; a place where you can drop your towel on the floor without fear of reprisal, but where, hopefully, over time, you become aware of the person whose job it is to pick it up and instead leave it folded neatly on a chair.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/22\/magazine\/raising-teenagers-the-mother-of-all-problems.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Cusk on raising teenagers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Great Gatsby\u00ad <\/em>was published in 1925 to lukewarm reviews and sluggish sales\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/quora\/2015\/03\/22\/great_gatsby_why_did_it_take_so_long_for_fitzgerald_s_story_to_be_recognized.html?wpsrc=fol_tw\" target=\"_blank\">how did it become a classic<\/a>? Salute (or blame) the GIs: \u201cAs a part of a revolutionary scheme of donating more than 22 million books to World War II troops abroad, a publisher threw in a random book from its backlist: <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> \u2026 <em>Gatsby <\/em>and others entered the consciousness of millions of men who returned from war with an appreciation for paperback books and reading.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2015\/04\/a-most-unlikely-saint\/386243\/\" target=\"_blank\">A group of Catholics have proposed G. K. Chesterton for sainthood<\/a>. \u201cChesterton, in his jolly way, was a militant. A blaster of the superstitions of modernity, a toppler of the idols of materialism. He inveighed ceaselessly, at great length, and without ever once repeating himself, against \u2018the thought-destroying forces of our time\u2019: pessimism and determinism and pragmatism and impressionism.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/looking-marriage-and-the-new-gay-sadness\" target=\"_blank\">A brief history of gayness on television<\/a>: \u201cBy the fall of 1974, three years after the first gay cameo on popular American television (the vehicle was the liberal lodestar <em>All in the Family<\/em>), there were a handful of gay characters on prime time \u2026 \u2018<em>All<\/em> were rapists, child molesters, or murderers.\u2019 Activists lobbied networks to stop depicting gays as criminals and, within a few years, moved on to more subtle forms of otherness.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Akhil Sharma, whose novel Family Life has won the Folio Prize. 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