{"id":95542,"date":"2016-03-14T09:31:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T13:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=95542"},"modified":"2016-03-14T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T14:29:00","slug":"twenty-brutal-years-of-tuscan-sun-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/14\/twenty-brutal-years-of-tuscan-sun-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Brutal Years of <i>Tuscan Sun<\/i>, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_95545\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/under-the-tuscan-sun-di-01.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95545\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95545\" class=\"wp-image-95545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/under-the-tuscan-sun-di-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/under-the-tuscan-sun-di-01.jpg 1330w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/under-the-tuscan-sun-di-01-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/under-the-tuscan-sun-di-01-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/under-the-tuscan-sun-di-01-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from the film adaptation of <i>Under the Tuscan Sun<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Because people are incorrigibly nosy, and because no one seems to find it enjoyable to let an author write her books in peace, an Italian professor has sallied forth with yet another dubious claim as to the true identity of Elena Ferrante. And the professor\u2019s guess isn\u2019t very creative, either; it\u2019s just another professor. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/mar\/13\/who-is-elena-ferrante-novelist-issues-denial-as-guessing-game-goes-on\" target=\"_blank\">The latest writer forced to deny that she is the creator of the critically acclaimed Neapolitan novels is Marcella Marmo<\/a>, a professor of contemporary history at the University of Naples Federico II. \u2018Truly no, I am not Elena Ferrante,\u2019 she told <em>Corriere della Sera<\/em>, saying she had only read the first novel in the Neapolitan series and the newspaper should give her the other books as an apology.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in <em>super<\/em>: what a shitty word <em>super <\/em>is, with its grating long <em>u<\/em>, its relentless cheer, its strange ties to start-up culture. Teddy Wayne writes \u201c<em>Super <\/em>followed by an adjective\u2014in other words, in adverbial form\u2014was more than five times as common from 2010 to \u201912 as from 1990 to \u201994, with the biggest leaps coming in the last decade \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/13\/fashion\/super-tuesday-super-saturday.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">What was once reserved for the best, the most awe-inspiring and the wondrous is now routinely deployed for the mundane, the banal and the taste of fro-yo<\/a> \u2026 It is a prefix for a wealth of hard math and science terms (such as superset or superstring theory). It can imbue a nebulous proposition with what sounds like data-tested objectivity: \u2018We have implemented a superaccessible user database\u2019 comes off as more authoritative or more high-tech than \u2018We have implemented a very accessible user database.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>Eileen Myles has become that strangest of subspecies, the famous poet. Arielle Greenberg wonders why Myles\u2019s fame has itself garnered so much attention, and what it might mean for her work: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/article\/252134\" target=\"_blank\">It is weird for a poet to be famous, and no one feels this weirdness more deeply than poets themselves. It\u2019s even more weird for a poet to be newly more famous\u2014genuinely, glossy-magazine famous\u2014in her mid-sixties, after writing nineteen books<\/a> \u2026 Why is the media so obsessed with Myles\u2019s ascent into mainstream celebrity? I think a host of reasons are at play: the way Americans try to get \u2018cultured\u2019 by osmosis so that stylish articles about poetry make us feel more intellectual, the \u2018bootstraps\u2019 nature of Myles\u2019s story, the novelty of someone who ran for president as a piece of performance art getting photographed for glossy magazines. I find myself thinking about a term used a lot in my circles in the early 1990s: co-opting. Back then, it seemed that everything authentic and revolutionary and vital\u2014the riot grrl movement, grunge music, hip-hop\u2014was quickly gobbled up by the establishment and spat back out in clean, shiny packages for mass consumption. I worry that the hoopla over Myles is an attempt by the media to take everything underground about her and her work and use it to make itself look cool.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul\u2019s new film <em>Cemetery of Splendor <\/em>continues his long, oblique, quiet approach to political cinema, in which characters struggle to awake from the bland dream of history: \u201cBy far the most nakedly political film of Weerasethakul\u2019s career, it is a gentle, open-hearted story of human connection, and it is underlain at every moment by rage and dread. Midway through the film, the two main characters, Jen and Itt, go to the movies. In a slick modern multiplex, they watch a trailer for a schlocky horror flick, a fevered montage of impalements, heaving breasts, and prehensile tongues. This sequence is as close to a direct statement of intent as you\u2019ll ever find in a Weerasethakul film. <em>Cemetery of Splendor<\/em> has no gore, no bug-eyed demons or shrieking victims, and it makes time for flirtatious conversations with the local librarian, a long sales pitch for a miracle skin cream, and several public group workouts (a charmingly inexplicable staple of this filmmaker\u2019s work). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2016\/03\/13\/cemetery-of-splendor-thailand-genial-nightmares\/\" target=\"_blank\">But it too is a horror movie, all the more unsettling for its poky, daylit geniality<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s been twenty years since <em>Under the Tuscan Sun <\/em>was published, turning Tuscany into an unseemly pastiche of luxury and authentic European living. What have we done since? Jason Wilson explains: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/under-the-crushing-weight-of-the-tuscan-sun?intcid=mod-latest\" target=\"_blank\">I have sat on Tuscan-brown sofas surrounded by Tuscan-yellow walls, lounged on Tuscan patios made with Tuscan pavers, surrounded by Tuscan landscaping<\/a>. I have stood barefoot on Tuscan bathroom tiles, washing my hands under Tuscan faucets after having used Tuscan toilets. I have eaten, sometimes on Tuscan dinnerware, a Tuscan Chicken on Ciabatta from Wendy\u2019s, a Tuscan Chicken Melt from Subway, the $6.99 Tuscan Duo at Olive Garden, and Tuscan Hummus from California Pizza Kitchen. Recently, I watched my friend fill his dog\u2019s bowl with Beneful Tuscan Style Medley dog food. This barely merited a raised eyebrow; I\u2019d already been guilty of feeding my cat Fancy Feast\u2019s White Meat Chicken Tuscany. Why deprive our pets of the pleasures of Tuscan living?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because people are incorrigibly nosy, and because no one seems to find it enjoyable to let an author write her books in peace, an Italian professor has sallied forth with yet another dubious claim as to the true identity of Elena Ferrante. 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