{"id":91352,"date":"2015-10-28T08:42:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T12:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=91352"},"modified":"2015-10-28T11:48:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T15:48:55","slug":"the-ghost-in-the-machine-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/28\/the-ghost-in-the-machine-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost in the Machine, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_91353\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1279px-charlie_lingar_and_his_son_listen_to_their_battery_radio._he_has_worked_for_the_company_for_fourteen_years_but_was..._-_nara_-_541193.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91353\" class=\"wp-image-91353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1279px-charlie_lingar_and_his_son_listen_to_their_battery_radio._he_has_worked_for_the_company_for_fourteen_years_but_was..._-_nara_-_541193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1279px-charlie_lingar_and_his_son_listen_to_their_battery_radio._he_has_worked_for_the_company_for_fourteen_years_but_was..._-_nara_-_541193.jpg 1154w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1279px-charlie_lingar_and_his_son_listen_to_their_battery_radio._he_has_worked_for_the_company_for_fourteen_years_but_was..._-_nara_-_541193-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1279px-charlie_lingar_and_his_son_listen_to_their_battery_radio._he_has_worked_for_the_company_for_fourteen_years_but_was..._-_nara_-_541193-1024x726.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-91353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man and his son listen to their battery radio, September 1946.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Jonathan Franzen investigates the necessary and sufficient features of that classic, oft-maligned form, <em>The New Yorker<\/em> story: \u201cWhat made a story <em>New Yorker<\/em> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-birth-of-the-new-yorker-story\" target=\"_blank\">its carefully wrought, many-comma\u2019d prose; its long passages of physical description, the precision and the sobriety of which created a kind of negative emotional space, a suggestion of feeling without the naming of it<\/a>; its well-educated white characters, who could be found experiencing the melancholies of affluence, the doldrums of suburban marriage, or the thrill or the desolation of adultery; and, above all, its signature style of ending, which was either elegantly oblique or frustratingly coy, depending on your taste.\u201d In Cheever\u2019s well-wrought \u201cThe Country Husband,\u201d we see \u201ca reminder of why \u2018the <em>New Yorker<\/em> story\u2019 became so dominant. In a country recovering from one war and entering others, living under a nuclear shadow, awaiting large-scale social upheavals, no scream could do justice to the American middle-class predicament. Only understatement could.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>For ammunition in your war against writer\u2019s block, look to the past\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_vault\/2015\/10\/27\/history_of_screenwriting_a_master_book_of_plots.html?wpsrc=fol_tw\" target=\"_blank\">Wycliff Aber Hill\u2019s <em>Ten Million Photoplay Plots<\/em>, from 1919, offers a superabundance of narrative solutions<\/a> for whatever ails you. (Okay, it only lists thirty-seven \u201cbasic dramatic situations,\u201d which is a far cry from ten million, but use your imagination.) Among such mainstays as \u201cfatal indiscretion\u201d and \u201cadultry [sic] with murder\u201d\u2014those are apparently different\u2014you\u2019ll find deep cuts like \u201cstruggle against God\u201d and \u201cinvoluntary criminal love,\u201d which contains fecund sub-possibilities: \u201cdiscovery that one has married his own mother \u2026 having through the villainous instigation of a third person taken a sister for wife \u2026 discovery that one is about to violate, unknowingly, a daughter.\u201d On second thought, just give up\u2014writing is silly, anyway.<\/li>\n<li>Today in spooky media: Long-Delayed Echoes (LDEs) have plagued radio since their discovery in 1927, and scientists can\u2019t really explain them. They could be signals reflected from outer space; signals reflected terrestrially; or, most plausibly, signs of alien life. \u201cIn 1960 Ronald Bracewell proposed in <em>Ronald Bracewell proposed in Nature<\/em> that <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/radio-ghosts-have-haunted-the-airwaves-for-nearly-a-century\" target=\"_blank\">if we were to be contacted by an autonomous artificially intelligent alien probe, the messages we received would most likely sound like the echoes<\/a> \u2026 the reflection of our own radio signals back to us being a highly energy efficient mode of establishing contact.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>For years, American writers have toiled in obscurity, with precious few monuments, commemorative plaques, or wax likenesses devoted to their memory. Well, friend, no more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/oct\/27\/american-writers-museum-slated-to-open-in-chicago-in-2017?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks?CMP=twt_books_b-gdnbooks\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago is soon to open the first-ever American Writers Museum<\/a>, where, god willing, the fraught history of our art-form, like so many before it, will be boiled down into propaganda and shoveled merrily down the throats of our youth. And if you\u2019re worried that a museum about words will look too much like a library\u2014perish the thought\u2014allow me to allay your fears: \u201cThe museum will focus on using new media and technology in exhibitions, not only to differentiate it from a library, but also to engage in contemporary forms of writing from social media to digital journalism.\u201d That is, not much writing will be featured at the American Writers Museum.<\/li>\n<li>Fact: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/123233\/untold-history-african-american-cookbooks\" target=\"_blank\">an unprecedented six cooking-related books by black women will have been published by the end of this month<\/a>.\u201d If six doesn\u2019t sound like many to you, remember that the tradition is rooted in memorization, not record: \u201cPlenty of my African American friends marvel over their family elders\u2019 ability to cook from memory, processes so rote that mistakes are rare. 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