{"id":93504,"date":"2016-01-14T15:41:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T20:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=93504"},"modified":"2016-01-14T15:41:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T20:41:24","slug":"heartfelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/14\/heartfelt\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartfelt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/closed-on-account-of-rabies.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93517\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/closed-on-account-of-rabies.jpg\" alt=\"Closed-on-Account-of-Rabies\" width=\"600\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/closed-on-account-of-rabies.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/closed-on-account-of-rabies-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, I started obsessively revisiting the 1997 album\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Closed_on_Account_of_Rabies\" target=\"_blank\">Closed on Account of Rabies<\/a><\/em>, which features Edgar Allan Poe poems and stories interpreted by the likes of Jeff Buckley, Marianne Faithfull, Christopher Walken, and Debbie Harry. (David Bowie, in case you\u2019re wondering, was not involved, although I think some Bowie-related rabbit hole led me back to it.)\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I came across the album some years ago in a reduced bin in Tower Records, and for a while I enjoyed putting bits of it on mix tapes\u2014particularly Dr. John\u2019s take of \u201cBerenice\u201d and the Iggy Pop reading of \u201cThe Tell-Tale Heart.\u201d (Patience and Prudence\u00a0and this one Lou Reed bootleg also figured prominently in the rotation.) All my mix tapes had elaborate covers made from vintage postcards, of which I had a great many. Like the rest of this story, the album speaks loudly of the 1990s\u2014from the scoring to the casting, which found several of the readers in a proto-iconic moment. (Would Ed Sanders make the cut today?) It seems only natural that Ralph Steadman contributed the cover art.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s just be glad\u2014or puzzled\u2014that it exists, and thank the heavens above that we live in such a world, in such a time, and that no matter what happens and what genres are bent and trails forged, there are still things that will strike us as damned odd. Like a Poe character, the collective mind has its limits. (See: Sanders, Ed.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and incidentally, it\u2019s a pretty decent reading.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Sadie Stein is contributing editor of <\/em>The Paris Review<em>, and the <\/em>Daily<em>\u2019s correspondent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, I started obsessively revisiting the 1997 album\u00a0Closed on Account of Rabies, which features Edgar Allan Poe poems and stories interpreted by the likes of Jeff Buckley, Marianne Faithfull, Christopher Walken, and Debbie Harry. 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