{"id":85012,"date":"2015-04-22T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=85012"},"modified":"2015-04-22T15:08:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:08:15","slug":"talk-to-the-animals-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/22\/talk-to-the-animals-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk to the Animals, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_85014\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/id_010new_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85014\" class=\"wp-image-85014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/id_010new_1.jpg\" alt=\"id_010new_1\" width=\"600\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/id_010new_1.jpg 2341w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/id_010new_1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/id_010new_1-1024x672.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henri Matisse, <i>The Horse, the Rider and the Clown<\/i>, 1947, color pochoir.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Larry Kramer, seventy-nine, came of age at a time when being gay was still illegal; his latest opus, <em>The American People<\/em>, is kind of a novel, kind of not, very long, and very gay: \u201ca history of hate [from] one among the hated.\u201d \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/apr\/21\/larry-kramer-i-decided-i-was-going-to-write-a-history-of-my-american-people\" target=\"_blank\">Most histories are written by straight people<\/a> who wouldn\u2019t know, see the signs that a gay person does when they look at a person\u2019s life,\u201d he says. \u201cI mean, how could you write the life of Mark Twain without realizing that he was hugely, hugely gay? The way he lived, who his friends were, and how his relationships began. And what he wrote about! I don\u2019t know how you could avoid the assumption that he\u2019s gay.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thequietus.com\/articles\/17693-atticus-lish-preparation-for-the-next-life-novel-lauren-oyler-interview\" target=\"_blank\">An interview with Atticus Lish<\/a>, who won our Plimpton Prize this year: \u201cSpoken language is primary, and I want it to be primary. Everything should pass the reading-aloud test; that became a real theme with me before I even was aware of it. I said, \u2018Don\u2019t write like a writer; write like a talker.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>But how do you write like a talker if the person talking is an animal? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/can-fiction-show-us-how-animals-think\" target=\"_blank\">Fiction is still grappling with animal consciousness<\/a>, with varying degrees of success: it may be largely impossible, as Thomas Nagel wrote in his 1974 essay \u201cWhat Is It Like To Be a Bat?\u201d, reminding us that \u201cacts of sympathetic imagination are fatally restricted by the incalculable difference between human and bat.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In which <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2015\/04\/manny-pacquiao-floyd-mayweather-fight.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry Howley follows two boxers<\/a>: \u201cSportswriters talk constantly of \u2018focus,\u2019 \u2018dedication,\u2019 and \u2018single-mindedness.\u2019 It is a measure of this clich\u00e9\u2019s persistence that, despite the mountains of evidence to the contrary, men still use these words to describe Manny Pacquiao. This is a boxer who sidelines as a working politician and a low-budget-movie star, a man who leads Bible study on Sundays and moonlights as one of the shortest professional basketball players in the Philippines. He has recorded two platinum albums, and a hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fKuIHs1ELQU\" target=\"_blank\">single<\/a> called \u2018Sometimes When We Touch\u2019 \u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordamerican.org\/magazine\/item\/550-trash-food\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Offutt pursues \u201ctrash food,\u201d<\/a> whatever that may be: \u201cThe term \u2018white trash\u2019 is an epithet of bigotry that equates human worth with garbage. It implies a dismissal of the group as stupid, violent, lazy, and untrustworthy\u2014the same negative descriptors of racial minorities, of anyone outside of the mainstream. At every stage of American history, various groups of people have endured such personal attacks. Language is used as a weapon: divisive, cruel, enciphered. Today is no different. For example, here in Mississippi, the term \u2018Democrats\u2019 is code for \u2018African Americans.\u2019 Throughout the U.S.A., \u2018family values\u2019 is code for \u2018no homosexuals.\u2019 The term \u2018trash food\u2019 is not about food, it\u2019s coded language for social class. 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