{"id":91927,"date":"2015-11-13T09:18:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T14:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=91927"},"modified":"2015-11-13T11:08:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T16:08:52","slug":"dying-in-a-national-park-is-very-unpleasant-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/13\/dying-in-a-national-park-is-very-unpleasant-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Dying in a National Park Is Very Unpleasant, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_91928\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/greetings_from_yellowstone_national_park_-_old_faithful_great_falls_and_grand_canyon_road_beggars_70639.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91928\" class=\"wp-image-91928\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/greetings_from_yellowstone_national_park_-_old_faithful_great_falls_and_grand_canyon_road_beggars_70639.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/greetings_from_yellowstone_national_park_-_old_faithful_great_falls_and_grand_canyon_road_beggars_70639.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/greetings_from_yellowstone_national_park_-_old_faithful_great_falls_and_grand_canyon_road_beggars_70639-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/greetings_from_yellowstone_national_park_-_old_faithful_great_falls_and_grand_canyon_road_beggars_70639-1024x665.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-91928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A postcard made between 1930 and 1945.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Flogging! Embezzling! The public humiliation of a churchman named John Winterbottom! These and more await you in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/nov\/12\/unseen-charlotte-bronte-story-and-poem-discovered\" target=\"_blank\">an unpublished story by Charlotte Bront\u00eb<\/a>, discovered in the \u201cmuch-treasured\u201d pages of the family copy of Robert Southey\u2019s <em>The Remains of Henry Kirke White<\/em>. There\u2019s a new poem, too: \u201cThe pieces have been dated to 1833, when Charlotte would have been around seventeen \u2026 Historian Juliet Barker, author of the biography <em>The Bront\u00ebs<\/em>, said that \u2018the book alone is a valuable acquisition because of its rare associations with Mrs Bront\u00eb \u2019 \u2026 According to the Bront\u00eb Society, the Southey title is one of Maria\u2019s \u2018rare surviving possessions,\u2019 after a box containing all her property was shipwrecked off the Devon coast shortly before she married Patrick Bront\u00eb in 1812. It also features Patrick\u2019s Latin inscription, reading that it was \u2018the book of my dearest wife and it was saved from the waves. So then it will always be preserved.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in national parks and the macabre: \u201cFor years, I\u2019ve been an avid reader of what I call the <em>Death in \u2026<\/em> \u00a0books. It\u2019s not quite an actual series\u2014there are four so far, from three different publishers\u2014but the <em>Death in \u2026<\/em> \u00a0books all do the same thing: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/15\/magazine\/letter-of-recommendationthe-death-in-books.html?mtrref=undefined\" target=\"_blank\">They chronicle accidents, murders and mishaps in several of America\u2019s most treasured national parks, giving us <em>Death in Yellowstone<\/em>, <em>Death in Yosemite<\/em>, <em>Death in the Grand Canyon<\/em>, and <em>Death in Big Bend<\/em><\/a>. The Yellowstone, Yo\u00adsemi\u00adte and Grand Canyon books purport to chronicle every single death (excluding illness and car accidents) from the mid-nineteenth century onward, sorted into chapters by type: flash floods, bear maulings, murder, falls, poison gas and so on \u2026 The <em>Death in &#8230;<\/em> \u00a0books are morbid documents, and their authors\u2019 defensiveness about that only proves the point. But what\u2019s so wrong with being morbid?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOne thinks, usually, of drizzle being the opposite of thick, and of being lazy and gentle rather than sudden and sweeping. Still, an admirable deployment of the gerund.\u201d That\u2019s Christian Lorentzen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2015\/11\/17-reviews-of-opening-lines-of-new-books.html?mid=twitter_vulture\" target=\"_blank\">dismantling one of seventeen opening lines from new books<\/a>. (In this case, the line is from Lauren Groff\u2019s <em>Fates and Furies<\/em>: \u201cA thick drizzle from the sky, like a curtain\u2019s sudden sweeping.\u201d) Look away, children.<\/li>\n<li>Sixty-five years after its publication, the childbirth scene from Barbara Comyns\u2019s <em>Our Spoons Came from Woolworths <\/em>still has everyone talking\u2014and it resonates with contemporary literature: \u201cWinding up in a public hospital, Sophia [<em>Spoons<\/em>\u2019s heroine] is prodded, rebuked, and shamed for her body\u2019s involuntary actions. It\u2019s a setting in which women giving birth are seen either as docilely on track, or deviant \u2026 [This] brings to mind Maggie Nelson\u2019s query in \u2026 <em>The Argonauts<\/em>, about the process of childbirth: \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/bombmagazine.org\/article\/87991110\/and-everything-tasted-of-soap\" target=\"_blank\">How can an experience so profoundly strange and wild and transformative also symbolize or enact the ultimate conformity<\/a>?\u2019 \u2026 Ferrante, for one, has said that her heroines don\u2019t suffer so much as struggle. Comyns enacts the opposite: arguably, her characters suffer. Sophia exits each chapter of her life and enters a new one clearly exhausted, clearly in pain, and yet we don\u2019t see her thrashing much. Her narration is triumphant proof that she has made it through, but the way out is seeded with resignation.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A note to the bagpipers: listen, let\u2019s not beat around the bush. There are times when ordinary, run-of-the-mill bagpiping will suffice, and there are times when life calls for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/extreme-bagpiping-situations-from-antarctica-to-the-beaches-of-dday\" target=\"_blank\">extreme bagpiping<\/a>. Those are the times I want to hear about. I\u2019m talking about bagpiping on the beaches of Normandy during D-Day. I\u2019m talking about bagpiping in Antarctica with a penguin beside you. I\u2019m talking about bagpiping on the International fucking Space Station.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flogging! Embezzling! The public humiliation of a churchman named John Winterbottom! These and more await you in an unpublished story by Charlotte Bront\u00eb, discovered in the \u201cmuch-treasured\u201d pages of the family copy of Robert Southey\u2019s The Remains of Henry Kirke White. There\u2019s a new poem, too: \u201cThe pieces have been dated to 1833, when Charlotte [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[20194,7033,4217,19976,7869,20192,20193,16752,19296],"class_list":["post-91927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-bagpiping","tag-barbara-comyns","tag-charlotte-bronte","tag-childbirth","tag-christian-lorentzen","tag-death-in-yellowstone","tag-lauren-groff","tag-maggie-nelson","tag-national-parks"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lessons from a Series of Books About Death in National Parks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This and more in today\u2019s roundup...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/13\/dying-in-a-national-park-is-very-unpleasant-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dying in a National Park Is Very Unpleasant, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"November 13, 2015 \u2013 Flogging! 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