{"id":88449,"date":"2015-08-03T09:16:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T13:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=88449"},"modified":"2015-08-03T15:01:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T19:01:18","slug":"crunching-christie-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/03\/crunching-christie-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunching Christie, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_88451\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mpw-55661.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88451\" class=\"wp-image-88451 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mpw-55661.jpg\" alt=\"MPW-55661\" width=\"600\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mpw-55661.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mpw-55661-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-88451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The poster for <i>Murder Most Foul<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Data analysts have descended on the corpus of Agatha Christie\u2014to celebrate the 125th anniversary of her birth, they\u2019ve crunched some numbers and honed a formula \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/aug\/02\/academics-unlock-formula-agatha-christies-mysteries?CMP=twt_books*gdnbooks\" target=\"_blank\">that they claim will enable the reader to identify the killer before the likes of Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple have managed the feat<\/a>,\u201d thus taking the fun out of what had been formerly known as \u201creading.\u201d The formula examines factors like setting, gender of culprit, number of culprit mentions per chapter, and sentiment of culprit mentions; in some cases its findings are surprising. \u201cThey found that if the victim was strangled, the killer was more likely to be male \u2026 if the setting was a country house\u2014not uncommon for a Christie novel\u2014there was a 75% chance the killer would be female. Female culprits were usually discovered thanks to a domestic item, while males were normally found out through information or logic.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>At Stanford, meanwhile, new software called ePADD will change the way researchers process e-mail collections. Archivists who\u2019d been \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/new-email-archive-tool-to-sift-literary-legacies-1438194059\" target=\"_blank\">grappling with more than 150,000 e-mails in the archive of poet and author Robert Creeley<\/a>\u201d used ePADD to separate the wheat from the chaff: e-mails \u201caccumulate like dust \u2026 A mountain of \u2018See you at eight o\u2019clock.\u2019 Every now and then, there must be significant ones but the sheer volume is very great.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>An old lecture by Shirley Jackson looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/memory-and-delusion\" target=\"_blank\">two of a writer\u2019s most necessary tools\u2014memory and delusion<\/a>: \u201cThe very nicest thing about being a writer is that you can afford to indulge yourself endlessly with oddness, and nobody can really do anything about it, as long as you keep writing and kind of using it up, as it were. I am, this morning, endeavoring to persuade you to join me in my deluded world; it is a happy, irrational, rich world, full of fairies and ghosts and free electricity and dragons, and a world beyond all others fun to walk around in. All you have to do\u2014and watch this carefully, please\u2014is keep writing.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>This is your periodic reminder that it\u2019s okay, or even laudable, to pursue \u201cdifficult\u201d fiction: \u201cThink back on our country\u2019s rich literary traditions in fiction: from Hawthorne to Melville, through Poe to James, Stein, \u00adEllison, and Faulkner, just to cite a few. Their books make use of circularity, fragmentation, and elision, and at their most extreme reject coherence in an effort to produce new meaning. Their wildness has played an important defining role in our culture\u2019s literary identity \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/the-democracy-of-difficult-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">If we want to make sure this important tradition continues, we have to sustain the curiosity to care about work that, at first glance, might seem difficult<\/a> \u2026 Let\u2019s not give up on the intricacies of ambitious fiction. Let\u2019s not stop reading the kind of books that keep teaching us to read.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Marie Darrieussecq\u2019s first book, <em>Pig Tales<\/em>, published in 1996, is \u201cnarrated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.full-stop.net\/2015\/07\/29\/blog\/caren-beilin\/what-it-takes-to-be-violent-an-appreciation-of-marie-darrieussecqs-pig-tales\/\" target=\"_blank\">an unnamed young white woman who aspires to a higher class, but in turn, is becoming a pig<\/a>. As her body undergoes this great metamorphosis, she attracts increasing acts of sexual violence \u2026 The narrator, who works at Perfumes Plus as a perfume seller and prostitute, doesn\u2019t seem to know that she is abused, let alone deceived about her pay.\u201d But in all its grotesquerie, the book\u2019s formalism offers an effective way of depicting violence against women: \u201cDarrieussecq, in <em>Pig Tales<\/em>, rigorously insists on visibility\u2014form is light. Her formal rigor, her careful and caring arrangement, her <em>tactic<\/em>, bares her comment. I want all writers, if they want to take the female body out of their tool kit, and hurt it, to work hard. Mostly, so hard they don\u2019t bother.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data analysts have descended on the corpus of Agatha Christie\u2014to celebrate the 125th anniversary of her birth, they\u2019ve crunched some numbers and honed a formula \u201cthat they claim will enable the reader to identify the killer before the likes of Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple have managed the feat,\u201d thus taking the fun out 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