{"id":92581,"date":"2015-12-07T09:02:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T14:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=92581"},"modified":"2015-12-07T10:25:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T15:25:34","slug":"you-and-your-fantastic-hopes-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/07\/you-and-your-fantastic-hopes-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"You and Your Fantastic Hopes, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_92582\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kurtjanevonnegutandfamily1955.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92582\" class=\"wp-image-92582\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kurtjanevonnegutandfamily1955.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kurtjanevonnegutandfamily1955.jpg 961w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kurtjanevonnegutandfamily1955-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-92582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kurt Vonnegut with his wife Jane and their three children, Mark, Edie, and Nanette, in 1955. Photo: Edie Vonnegut<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Our new Winter issue, out now, features an interview with Gordon Lish, the editor whose drastic emendation of Raymond Carver\u2019s work remains contentious even now, decades after the fact. In an excerpt of the interview in the<em>\u00a0Guardian<\/em>, Lish talks about his reasoning with Carver: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/dec\/05\/gordon-lish-books-interview-editing-raymond-carver\" target=\"_blank\">I saw in Carver\u2019s pieces something I could fuck around with. There was a prospect there, certainly<\/a>. The germ of the thing, in Ray\u2019s stuff, was revealed in the catalogue of his experience. It had that promise in it, something I could fool with and make something new-seeming \u2026 But Carver\u2019s were not the only ones I\u2019d worked on to that extent. Not the only ones by a long shot. There were many. I\u2019ve been decried for a heinous act. Was it that? Me, I think I made something enduring. For its being durable, and, in many instances, beautiful.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a> to read the whole interview.<\/li>\n<li>Kobe Bryant\u2019s versified retirement announcement is only the latest example (and, if we\u2019re being honest with ourselves, not an especially sublime one) of the sports poem, a venerated form whose proponents include Randall Jarrell (\u201cSay Goodbye to Big Daddy\u201d) William Carlos Williams (\u201cThe Crowd at the Ball Game\u201d) and Marianne Moore (\u201cBaseball and Writing\u201d). But how to tell which is the most accomplished of all time? With a March Madness\u2013style tournament, of course, conducted by\u00a0<em>Daily <\/em>contributor Adrienne Raphel: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/article\/251562\" target=\"_blank\">In honor of Bryant, I\u2019ve pitted sixteen sports poems against one another<\/a>\u2014with both \u2018sports\u2019 and \u2018poems\u2019 arbitrarily defined \u2026 to determine which sports poem should be crowned victorious. The four regions: Basketball, Baseball, Football, and Running.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Zadie Smith argued in 2008 that literature was too dominated by lyrical realism. In a new interview with <em>The White Review<\/em>, she refines her thinking: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewhitereview.org\/interviews\/interview-with-zadie-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\">The fashionable argument against \u2018realism\u2019 has become a bit simple-minded<\/a> \u2026 In fact I think we are rather sophisticated in our understanding of the limits and illusions of language, and that this is again largely due to our familiarity with the literary uses of language in everyday life. When you hear, for example, two girls at a bus stop and one is telling the other a \u2018story\u2019\u2014\u2018and she was like \u2026 and I was like \u2026 and they were like\u2019\u2014the storytelling girl is not doing this because she imagines that with this act of mimesis, with this \u2018realistic\u2019 re-telling, she has fooled her listener into believing that what she is presenting is \u2018authentic\u2019 or an unvarnished truth, in some sense essentially \u2018real\u2019\u2014no. She is performing a speech act in which both parties understand, at least to some degree, that what is happening is a form of \u2018performance\u2019, a bracketed and partial reality. The problem with the argument that all realism is na\u00efve is that it assigns to both parties in the literary exchange\u2014the reader and the writer\u2014an almost childlike innocence in the face of literary artifice.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s wife Jane played a critical role in her husband\u2019s career\u2014it was she who convinced him that he should write at all. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/how-jane-vonnegut-made-kurt-vonnegut-a-writer\" target=\"_blank\">Many of the ideas and themes that characterize Vonnegut were born in the conversation between Kurt and Jane<\/a>, and throughout his career she remained a voice in the text \u2026 Her faith sometimes baffled him. \u2018I can only hope, and this on your instigation, that I\u2019ve not reached my full stature,\u2019 he wrote. \u2018I\u2019m willing to work like a dog to attain it.\u2019 And he did &#8230; \u2018I don\u2019t want to let you and your fantastic hopes down with a thump.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>Did you know? This thing called Art Basel happened in Miami: a bunch of overblown parties that may or may not have been art-related. Kaitlin Phillips was there, watching the arrivistes: \u201cChristopher Bollen playful-seriously accused all artists of the Dunning-Kruger effect, \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artforum.com\/diary\/#entry56547\" target=\"_blank\">a psychological term for people who highly exaggerate their skill sets. I feel like all artists have to be sufferers of it.<\/a> What you are trying to achieve, like, outweighs even your own experience of what it is\u2019 \u2026 Aesthetically, I\u2019m more willing to diagnose the suits from last night with Dunning-Kruger; the men without so much as a Wikipedia entry, or even a personality, let alone charisma or looks, god forbid politesse, trying to <em>talk<\/em> their way into clubs. But I\u2019m being morbid. \u2018What is your criteria? I just want to learn,\u2019 said a man, angrily. \u2018There\u2019s no criteria,\u2019 said the doorman, a real cool customer. <em>And<\/em> there were women too: \u2018You don\u2019t understand the culture,\u2019 lisped (or rasped) a thickly beautiful woman in a thick Italian accent. \u2018You don\u2019t <em>understand the culture<\/em>.\u2019 Neither, apparently, did she, not that I don\u2019t sympathize with the trials of a chunky-junky-jewelry woman. It\u2019s a postlapsarian scene, baby\u2014you can\u2019t just walk in on the Louboutins you never learned to walk in.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our new Winter issue, out now, features an interview with Gordon Lish, the editor whose drastic emendation of Raymond Carver\u2019s work remains contentious even now, decades after the fact. 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