{"id":84477,"date":"2015-04-08T07:30:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=84477"},"modified":"2015-04-08T07:26:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T11:26:33","slug":"most-novelists-are-bitter-failures-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/08\/most-novelists-are-bitter-failures-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Novelists Are Bitter Failures, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_84485\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/george_gissing_c1890s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84485\" class=\"wp-image-84485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/george_gissing_c1890s.jpg\" alt=\"George_Gissing_c1890s\" width=\"600\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/george_gissing_c1890s.jpg 619w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/george_gissing_c1890s-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-84485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Gissing, ca. 1890s.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>When Richard Dawkins conceived of memes, he imagined them as units of culture, transmitted like viruses to contribute to our social evolution. But Internet memes have distorted the meaning of the term, arguably to uselessness. \u201cTrawling the Internet, I found a strange paradox: While <a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/23\/dominoes\/the-meme-as-meme-rp?utm_content=bufferc4af5&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">memes were everywhere, serious meme theory was almost nowhere<\/a>. Richard Dawkins \u2026 seemed bent on disowning the Internet variety, calling it a \u2018hijacking\u2019 of the original term.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>George Gissing\u2019s <em>New Grub Street<\/em> (1891) is good for a whole host of reasons, but it\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2015\/04\/sordid-unprofitable-unrewarding-on-new-grub-street-and-cynical-literature.html\" target=\"_blank\">a particularly potent corrective to the current cottage industry centering on \u2018the writing life<\/a>\u2019\u2014in which literary production is seen as glamorous, in which photos of writers\u2019 desks appear on Pinterest and readers obsess over the perfect pen with which to write their buried masterpiece. The lesson of Gissing is that most novelists are bitter failures\u2014always were, and always will be.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Curmudgeonly grandparents around the world would have you believe that textspeak is a travesty, a crime against language. But it has, in so many ways, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/121463\/textspeak-streamlining-language-not-ruining-it\" target=\"_blank\">expanded and streamlined our methods of communicating<\/a>: our tonal varietyyyyy, our semiotics (!!!), our ability to corretc (*correct) ourselves \u2026<\/li>\n<li>The postal service\u2019s new Maya Angelou stamp contains many perfectly nice words\u2014\u201cA bird doesn\u2019t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song\u201d\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/books\/jacketcopy\/la-et-jc-maya-angelou-stamp-quote-20150407-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">but they weren\u2019t written by Maya Angelou<\/a>. \u201cA Postal Service spokesman told the newspaper that the line, which has been widely attributed to Angelou by people including President Obama, was approved for use on the stamp by Angelou\u2019s family.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The insidious logic of the trailer has made its way from movies to music and books\u2014now there are <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/To-Attract-Students\/229087?key=HmIiJlYwYS9JZS5mND5BbTkGbXM7MRl7NyAcOC9wblBTEQ%3D%3D==\" target=\"_blank\">trailers for college courses<\/a>, too. \u201cA branding tactic once reserved for the marketplace has entered the marketplace of ideas.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Richard Dawkins conceived of memes, he imagined them as units of culture, transmitted like viruses to contribute to our social evolution. But Internet memes have distorted the meaning of the term, arguably to uselessness. \u201cTrawling the Internet, I found a strange paradox: While memes were everywhere, serious meme theory was almost nowhere. 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