{"id":85995,"date":"2015-05-22T09:27:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T13:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=85995"},"modified":"2015-05-22T10:35:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T14:35:17","slug":"size-matters-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/22\/size-matters-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Size Matters, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_85996\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/arnau_bassa_-_triptych_with_madonna_and_child_with_the_crucifixion_and_the_annunciation_-_walters_37468_-_a_t_left_detail_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85996\" class=\"wp-image-85996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/arnau_bassa_-_triptych_with_madonna_and_child_with_the_crucifixion_and_the_annunciation_-_walters_37468_-_a_t_left_detail_n.jpg\" alt=\"Arnau_Bassa_-_Triptych_with_Madonna_and_Child_with_the_Crucifixion_and_the_Annunciation_-_Walters_37468_-_A_T_Left_Detail_N\" width=\"600\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/arnau_bassa_-_triptych_with_madonna_and_child_with_the_crucifixion_and_the_annunciation_-_walters_37468_-_a_t_left_detail_n.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/arnau_bassa_-_triptych_with_madonna_and_child_with_the_crucifixion_and_the_annunciation_-_walters_37468_-_a_t_left_detail_n-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/arnau_bassa_-_triptych_with_madonna_and_child_with_the_crucifixion_and_the_annunciation_-_walters_37468_-_a_t_left_detail_n-1024x635.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large, presumably very trendy book from the fourteenth century.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in \u201cLet\u2019s Pretend There\u2019s a Trend\u201d: Are long novels enjoying a day in the sun? There are, after all, <em>many<\/em> of them being published this year. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2015\/05\/year-of-the-very-long-novel.html\" target=\"_blank\">People seem to be seeking wholly immersive experiences<\/a>,\u201d says one publicist. \u201cThey\u2019re binge-watching, they\u2019re cooking from scratch, going on ecotours. And there\u2019s no more immersive experience than reading a good long book.\u201d (Publicists for cocaine, LSD, and MDMA could not be reached for comment.)<\/li>\n<li>Fantasy authors, on the other hand, are advised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2015\/may\/15\/fantasy-tyranny-mega-novel-george-rr-martin\" target=\"_blank\">to stop writing so many long novels<\/a>. \u201cA deluge of multi-volume epics has been published over recent years, each one in turn hailed as the next <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>, only to disappear within a few months as disappointed readers found reality didn\u2019t match the hype \u2026 Most were by debut novelists, often interesting writers with some good short stories under their belt, pushed far beyond their technical abilities by an industry hungry for instant commercial success.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>But if there are too many big books, there are also too many big literary festivals\u2014in fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2015\/may\/22\/literary-festivals-are-getting-too-big-for-their-books\" target=\"_blank\">the festivals are getting too big for their books<\/a>, even for the big books. \u201cWhat is the point of book festivals? To see your favorite authors on stage, hear them read from their books and in conversation? Or meet them, queue up to get their signatures in your first editions, and ask them questions?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>While we\u2019re at it, our data sets are growing too fast, too; this is your periodic reminder that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/207193\/graphs-and-legends\" target=\"_blank\">the digital humanities are divisive and arguably counterproductive<\/a>. The scholars who built Google Ngram \u201cgave a presentation about how the specific year in which a book is set started getting mentioned much more frequently after the French Revolution, and hypothesized that this had something to do with a new sense of time in the modern nation-state. In fact, as a senior professor attending the presentation immediately pointed out, these were just the years when copyrights, including dates of publication, started appearing in the fronts of books.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>There is, amid this outsize circus of excess, one man who isn\u2019t big enough: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/20\/opinion\/shot-in-the-name-of-art.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">the man who shot the artist Chris Burden with a .22-caliber rifle<\/a> back in 1971. In the name of the humanities, this fellow was \u201cwilling to accept the risk that if he missed his target by inches, art could morph into homicide.\u201d He\u2019s an accountant now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in \u201cLet\u2019s Pretend There\u2019s a Trend\u201d: Are long novels enjoying a day in the sun? There are, after all, many of them being published this year. \u201cPeople seem to be seeking wholly immersive experiences,\u201d says one publicist. \u201cThey\u2019re binge-watching, they\u2019re cooking from scratch, going on ecotours. And there\u2019s no more immersive experience than reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[35,12201,7079,601,18218,14957,18216,13541,18217,8007,13829],"class_list":["post-85995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-art","tag-big-books","tag-chris-burden","tag-copyright","tag-data-sets","tag-digital-humanities","tag-fantasy-novelists","tag-literary-festivals","tag-page-counts","tag-size","tag-trends"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Size Matters: Books, Lit Festivals, and Other Large Objects<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The literary news lately is fixated on size.\" \/>\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\/05\/22\/size-matters-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Size Matters, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"May 22, 2015 \u2013 Today in \u201cLet\u2019s Pretend There\u2019s a Trend\u201d: Are long novels enjoying a day in the sun? 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