{"id":85466,"date":"2015-05-06T09:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=85466"},"modified":"2015-05-06T10:38:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T14:38:37","slug":"the-rise-of-the-tablescape-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/the-rise-of-the-tablescape-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of the Tablescape, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_85467\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/gri_2004_r_10_b455_1483_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85467\" class=\"wp-image-85467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/gri_2004_r_10_b455_1483_001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/gri_2004_r_10_b455_1483_001.jpg 1336w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/gri_2004_r_10_b455_1483_001-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/gri_2004_r_10_b455_1483_001-1024x840.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From a display of outdoor patio furniture and table settings at Pereira &amp; Luckman, Beverly Hills, California, 1953. Photo: Julius Shulman<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Tim Parks on reading and the senses: \u201cWe have a vested interest in supposing that we are capable of projecting a kind of continuous movie of the events in a novel \u2026 The problem is that upon close examination the reading experience is far more complex and far less visual than is commonly supposed \u2026 So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2015\/may\/05\/stories-we-cant-see\/\" target=\"_blank\">what do we see when we read<\/a>? First the page, of course, and the words printed on it. No \u2018image\u2019 we have of the characters or settings will ever be as concrete, as indisputably and continuously present, as the solid book \u2026 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>Pedro Martinez\u2019s new autobiography reveals, at last, a field-tested secret to beating performance anxiety: \u201cEarly on, when I was in the minor leagues and measuring the opposing batter, I would conjure up a scene straight out of the most gruesome Hollywood blood-and-gore slasher flick: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-funky-mental-garden-of-pedro-martinez?intcid=mod-latest\" target=\"_blank\">my mother, strapped tightly by ropes to a chair, her mouth gagged<\/a>, her eyes clenched shut, too terrified to look down at the tip of a knife held to her throat by the leader of a gang of kidnappers.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today, in pleas from academia: Can\u2019t we stop conferring, already? Haven\u2019t we had enough of this masquerade? \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/04\/the-conference-manifesto\/\" target=\"_blank\">Conferences feel necessary, but their purpose is unclear<\/a>. They have great potential to help revitalize the humanities, but have not yet lived up to this potential.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Other than perennial favorites\u2014your John Dowells and Holden Caulfields, anyone from Joyce or Nabokov\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/tip-sheet\/article\/65714-who-s-the-greatest-unreliable-narrator-in-literature.html\" target=\"_blank\">who are the greatest unreliable narrators<\/a>? Look to Henry James, for starters, and \u201cgive up pretending there weren\u2019t unreliable narrators before 1940\u201d: \u201c<em>The Sacred Fount<\/em> is his least read major novel, and certainly his oddest. The narrator spends the entire book concocting elaborate deductions about fellow partygoers based on next to no evidence.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>If \u201ca dining table was once a simple, knockdown affair,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/food\/2015\/05\/history_of_table_setting_from_service_la_russe_to_sandra_lee_s_tablescapes.single.html\" target=\"_blank\">how did we end up with<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/food\/2015\/05\/history_of_table_setting_from_service_la_russe_to_sandra_lee_s_tablescapes.single.html\" target=\"_blank\"> profligate place settings<\/a>, glutted with silverware, centerpieces, and candelabras? A history of tablescapes finds that \u201cimproved manufacturing technologies led to a boom in utensils and flatware. Elite European tables have displayed silver dishware since the Middle Ages, but the variety of dishes for holding food continually increased, as they became more specific and more ornate. This trend peaked in the Victorian Era, when an abundance of silver, glass, and porcelain contributed to the table\u2019s shiny new look, with about twenty pieces per place setting.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Parks on reading and the senses: \u201cWe have a vested interest in supposing that we are capable of projecting a kind of continuous movie of the events in a novel \u2026 The problem is that upon close examination the reading experience is far more complex and far less visual than is commonly supposed \u2026 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