{"id":89651,"date":"2015-09-10T08:23:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T12:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=89651"},"modified":"2015-09-10T10:12:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T14:12:40","slug":"you-cant-build-that-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/10\/you-cant-build-that-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can\u2019t Build That, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_89653\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/brodskyutkin7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89653\" class=\"wp-image-89653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/brodskyutkin7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/brodskyutkin7.jpg 1183w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/brodskyutkin7-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/brodskyutkin7-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin,\u00a0<i>Hill with a Hole<\/i> (detail), 1987\u201390.\u00a0Image via <em>Hyperallergic<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe role of a novel is to entertain readers, and fear is one of the most entertaining things there is \u2026 I don\u2019t particularly feel like apologizing. It\u2019s impossible to increase the proportion already given to Islam in the news. We\u2019re already nearly at 100% \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/sep\/06\/michel-houellebecq-submission-am-i-islamophobic-probably-yes\" target=\"_blank\">A good provocateur knows who he\u2019s going to shock. I\u2019m absolutely incapable of predicting that &#8230; It\u2019s always a surprise every time<\/a>.\u201d That\u2019s Houellebecq, saying typically Houllebecq things about Islamophobia, on the eve of his novel <em>Submission<\/em>\u2019s release in the UK. (It comes to America next month, translated by our own Lorin Stein.)<\/li>\n<li>Today in wacky and yet not implausible Pynchon theories: Is this brick of a novel called <em>Cow Country<\/em>\u2014published this April by one Adrian Jones Pearson through a very, very small press\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-fiction-atop-the-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">actually the work of the P-man himself<\/a>? It has all of his hallmarks: \u201cNeed I mention that this novel is serious while spoofing \u2026 that high satire with a healthy dollop of bodily humor and a keen eye for paradox is this literary sensibility\u2019s chosen (and perhaps as a person, inevitable) metier? \u2026 With a magnifying glass, one could look closely and find what seem to be minor instances of Pynchon jokes from earlier novels recycled in <em>Cow Country<\/em>, tweaked for their new context.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin were architects in the late days of the Soviet Union, which set strict aesthetic parameters for the buildings it erected\u2014all but ensuring that architecture ceased to be an imaginative discipline. But Brodsky and Utkin found a way to skirt the rules: <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/230423\/the-most-fantastic-architecture-of-the-soviet-union-was-built-on-paper\/\" target=\"_blank\">they designed buildings that could never exist<\/a>, like \u201cprecarious scaffolding, classical domes, huge glass towers, and other visionary architecture that referenced everything from ancient tombs to Le Corbusier\u2019s sprawling city plans.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>What is an author\u2019s reputation made of? Reviews, sure. Critical studies, yes. But there\u2019s also a less tangible factor you might call \u201clitchat\u201d: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/david-foster-wallace-and-the-perils-of-litchat\" target=\"_blank\">the conversations that writers, readers, and critics have amongst themselves<\/a>. Whether another writer is spoken of respectfully, whether you get the impression that \u2018everyone\u2019 is reading his or her new book enthusiastically, or how well people think he or she comes across in interviews\u2014these and a dozen other imponderable factors constitute a reputation during a writer\u2019s lifetime, particularly in the early part of a career.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The image of the booze-soaked, tortured writer is a distinctly male one\u2014but let us not forget the women who drink. \u201cMale writers get careful interpretation of the role of alcohol in their creative lives; women writers are alcoholics, pure and simple \u2026 Women writers, meanwhile, have evolved a more complicated relationship with drunkenness. It is no longer quite the stain it once was \u2026 Still the canon is for the most part seriously dented by the effects of what you could call the Hemingway attitude\u2014this idea that a woman is contaminated by self-destructiveness, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/122745\/drunk-confessions-women-and-cliches-literary-drunkard\" target=\"_blank\">contaminated in a way that slurs her art<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe role of a novel is to entertain readers, and fear is one of the most entertaining things there is \u2026 I don\u2019t particularly feel like apologizing. It\u2019s impossible to increase the proportion already given to Islam in the news. We\u2019re already nearly at 100% \u2026 A good provocateur knows who he\u2019s going to shock. 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