{"id":91129,"date":"2015-10-22T09:16:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T13:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=91129"},"modified":"2015-10-22T10:27:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T14:27:59","slug":"thoreau-kids-love-the-guy-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/22\/thoreau-kids-love-the-guy-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoreau? Kids Love the Guy! And Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_91132\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/henry-david-thoreau-stamp-lanjee-chee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91132\" class=\"wp-image-91132 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/henry-david-thoreau-stamp-lanjee-chee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/henry-david-thoreau-stamp-lanjee-chee.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/henry-david-thoreau-stamp-lanjee-chee-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-91132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lanjee Chee\u2019s Thoreau stamp, designed ca. 1967.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Kathryn Schulz\u2019s Thoreau-bashing <em>New Yorker <\/em>piece last week was only the latest in a long tradition of broadsides against <em>Walden<\/em>\u2014people love to hate Thoreau. James Russell Lowell, Garrison Keillor, Jill Lepore, and Bill Bryson have all taken swipes at him in print. But all of them, and especially Schulz, are dearly misreading him, especially when they accuse him of misanthropy: \u201cHe was active in circulating petitions for neighbors in need. He was attentive to what was going on in the community. He was involved in the Underground Railroad. He quit his first teaching job, in protest, because he was expected to administer corporal punishment, and struggled to find a new one. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/123162\/everybody-hates-henry-david-thoreau\" target=\"_blank\">He loved watermelons, and threw an annual watermelon party for his friends, of whom he had plenty. Children were especially fond of him<\/a> \u2026 He was very handy. He could dance, and play music. He wrote lovingly about his father, mother, and siblings in his journals, and they wrote lovingly about him, and he was so devastated by his brother\u2019s death that he developed symptoms of tetanus in sympathy.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Notes from the annals of traffic planning: one of the greatest innovations in Frederick Law Olmsted\u2019s designs for Central Park was his way of guiding people and horses\u2014and, later, cars\u2014gently away from one another: \u201cIn 1900 there were some two hundred horse-related deaths in New York City. Thus Olmsted and Vaux\u2019s strict division of circulation in the park acknowledged the ever-present danger of such accidents by consigning heavy east\u2013west vehicular traffic to crosstown transverses sunk well below surface level, while above-grade pedestrian footpaths dipped beneath north\u2013south roadways through small bridges and short tunnels \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2015\/nov\/05\/frederick-law-olmsted-americas-green-giant\/\" target=\"_blank\">This concept of dual circulation soon became an article of faith among progressive planners in the United States and Europe<\/a>. Clarence Stein and Henry Wright\u2019s much-praised 1929 design for Radburn, New Jersey\u2014touted as the \u2018New Town for the Motor Age\u2019\u2014so effectively segregates cars and people that children can walk to local schools and playgrounds without crossing a street. Stein, whose Central Park West apartment overlooked the 65th Street Transverse, said that he discovered what became known as \u2018the Radburn idea\u2019 simply by peering out his front window.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The Polish writer Agnieszka Taborska is gazing seaward, as writers are wont to do. In the ocean she\u2019s found a suitable home for surrealism: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymptotejournal.com\/nonfiction\/agnieszka-taborska-the-sea-or-the-poet-at-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">The sea calms and alarms. Its swoosh is compared to a hundred sounds at once and yet there\u2019s no way to convey the whole complexity<\/a>. Screams, wails, thunderclaps, whistles, moans, rumbles, shrieks of exhortation, the boom of waves breaking on rocks, seagulls\u2019 cries, sirens\u2019 chants, the weeping of sailors tickled to death, half-audible words coming from no one knows where, transfused with their own echo. Ghost ships on the horizon, spirits of castaways floating on waves nearer the shore, shadowed by the amused look of a mermaid combing her wet locks for eternity \u2026 And then there are the beaches! Dunes torn asunder by secret life.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDo you remember Novokuznetskaya Station? \u2026 My mother threw up at each of the throne-like benches and felt sick at the sight of the lamps that look like a dentist\u2019s spittoons\u2026\u201d Each chapter of Hamid Ismailov\u2019s newly translated <em>The Underground <\/em>is named after a Moscow metro station, which is fun and all, but how is a bewildered, provincial American reader to make heads or tails of these places? <a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/a-google-tour-through-the-underground\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can use Google, for starters\u2014it brings those sick-making spittoon-lamps right to life<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Isn\u2019t it high time that we give Ursula K. Le Guin the anarchist cred she deserves? \u201cLe Guin has received her due as a master crafter, as the lyrical chronicler of worlds of the imagination, spaces apart from the world, where children and lingering adults can find an oasis. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/fiction\/le-guins-anarchist-aesthetics\" target=\"_blank\">But the political implications of her anarchist aesthetics go much further than that<\/a> \u2026 Stalin said that the poet should be the engineer of human souls. Le Guin is the anti-engineer.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathryn Schulz\u2019s Thoreau-bashing New Yorker piece last week was only the latest in a long tradition of broadsides against Walden\u2014people love to hate Thoreau. James Russell Lowell, Garrison Keillor, Jill Lepore, and Bill Bryson have all taken swipes at him in print. 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