{"id":89542,"date":"2015-09-04T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T18:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=89542"},"modified":"2016-04-03T18:14:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T22:14:58","slug":"staff-picks-cats-cattiness-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/04\/staff-picks-cats-cattiness-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Picks: Cats, Cattiness, Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_89543\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/buckley-vidal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89543\" class=\"wp-image-89543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/buckley-vidal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/buckley-vidal.jpg 752w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/buckley-vidal-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From <i>Best of Enemies<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"size-full wp-image-89545\">I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m much of a fan of Charles Bukowski\u2019s, but I\u2019ve been marveling at our shared love of cats, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780062395993\">a forthcoming collection of short pieces<\/a>\u2014verse and bits of prose\u2014about or involving his feline friends. It\u2019s endearing to see a grizzled, vulgar street poet bent to the will of a small cat.\u00a0He recognizes their complexity and frequently shows a candid concern for their opinions of him: \u201cMy cat shit in my archives \/ he climbed into my\u00a0<em>Golden State Sunkist<\/em>\u00a0\/ orange box \/ and he shit on my poems \/ my original poems \/ saved for the university archives. \/\/ that one-eared fat black critic \/ he signed me off.\u201d But then, cats are the ultimate tough motherfuckers, as Bukowski calls one feline companion, and who better to appreciate the resilience of a stray than another stray: \u201cand now sometimes I\u2019m interviewed, they want to hear about \/ life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed \/ shot runover de-tailed cat before them and I say, \u2018look, look \/ at <em>this<\/em>!\u2019 \u201d \u2014<strong>Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For those of us who came to political awareness during Barack Obama\u2019s first presidential campaign, it\u2019s difficult to imagine a time when television news organizations weren\u2019t first and foremost platforms for punditry. But, of course, this wasn\u2019t always the case\u2014a point that lingers in the foreground\u00a0of Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville\u2019s brilliant new documentary,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CzgfQvB2dvA\">Best of Enemies<\/a><\/em>. The film, at its heart, is a portrait of William Buckley, Jr., and Gore Vidal, who, in the words of one commentator, may just\u00a0as easily have\u00a0represented \u201cmatter and antimatter.\u201d Each was the leading public intellectual for his respective political movement, and each <em>despised<\/em>\u00a0the other\u2014so much so that their face-offs, in a series of debates staged during the 1968 presidential conventions, reshaped the landscape of political television. Like any good documentary,\u00a0<i>Best of Enemies<\/i>\u00a0left me eager to devour more of the Buckley-Vidal ideological battle, much of which, thankfully, is readily available online\u2014starting with complete archival footage of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZY_nq4tfi24\" target=\"_blank\">debates themselves<\/a>. \u2014<strong>Stephen Hiltner <br \/> <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_89545\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tumblr_mv8c9d4on21qf28joo1_500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89545\" class=\"wp-image-89545 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tumblr_mv8c9d4on21qf28joo1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tumblr_mv8c9d4on21qf28joo1_500.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tumblr_mv8c9d4on21qf28joo1_500-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bukowski and friend<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jonathan Blitzer has reported a captivating piece for<em>\u00a0Oxford American <\/em>called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordamerican.org\/magazine\/item\/663-crossing-over\">Crossing Over<\/a>\u201d; it tells the story of Claudia Delfin, a transgender woman who\u2019s spent her life shuttling across the border between El Paso and Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez. Now a drug counselor, she spent years as a sex worker and an addict, and began taking hormones when she was a freshman in high school. She lost most of her friends to <small>AIDS<\/small>, overdoses, hepatitis, or homicide, and given its milieu\u2014rehab clinics, prisons, seedy bars, strip malls, and fast-food joints, all in a kind of no-man\u2019s land that seems hardly to qualify as Mexico or America\u2014hers is a story that, in the wrong hands, would feel exploitative or falsely noir-ish. Blitzer tells it with candor and humanity. It\u2019s some of the most harrowing, clear-eyed journalism I\u2019ve seen this year. \u2014<strong>Dan Piepenbring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After Dan published a piece this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/on-the-pleasures-of-not-reading\/\">about hating authors you haven\u2019t read<\/a>, many people compared its sentiment to the hype and indignant Twitter commentary attending Jonathan Franzen\u2019s new novel, <em>Purity<\/em>. I\u2019d been thinking about this very problem over the weekend when I decided to do something I\u2019d neglected to do for many years: actually read a Franzen novel. I settled on <em>The Corrections\u2014<\/em>I know, I know\u2014and however the dialogue around Franzen has shifted in the fourteen years since he published it, the novel has retained its power, a valuable reminder to anyone skeptical of <em>Purity<\/em>. Yes, just as everyone said, the prose in <em>The Corrections <\/em>pops and churn; yes, its form proves, as Christian Lorentzen has said, that its author is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2015\/08\/jonathan-franzen-purity-public-moralist.html?mid=nymag_press\">a master of structure<\/a>\u201d; and yes, its observations about late nineties culture are dauntingly sharp. In other words I\u2019m forced to agree that Franzen is as good as his supporters claim he is. Since <em>The Corrections<\/em>, if not earlier, he\u2019s been chased by the accusation that he hates his characters, and though that may hold true for the new book, I saw no evidence of it here. But I could have missed the contempt because I was too busy laughing at the satire: the refreshing acknowledgment that we all suck a little on the inside and that we\u2019re all capable of, and in fact often do, very dumb and selfish things. More than once while learning to love the Lamberts, I had the impulse to call my grandparents and apologize. \u2014<strong>Jeffery Gleaves<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m much of a fan of Charles Bukowski\u2019s, but I\u2019ve been marveling at our shared love of cats, via a forthcoming collection of short pieces\u2014verse and bits of prose\u2014about or involving his feline friends. 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