{"id":95917,"date":"2016-03-23T09:20:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T13:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=95917"},"modified":"2016-03-23T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T14:32:24","slug":"pockets-theyre-still-great-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/23\/pockets-theyre-still-great-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Pockets\u2014They\u2019re Still Great! And Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_95919\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pockets.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95919\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95919\" class=\"wp-image-95919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pockets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pockets.jpg 3855w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pockets-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pockets-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/pockets-1024x743.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pockets!<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The cafard and mirthlessness that have long governed French philosophers have now extended to French writers of all kinds\u2014a new survey says they\u2019ve never been unhappier. Their proposed solution? Surrender. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/mar\/22\/les-miserables-gloomy-french-writers-face-crisis-as-incomes-plummet?CMP=twt_a-world_b-gdnworld\" target=\"_blank\">French writers have never felt more badly paid, undervalued, or under pressure<\/a> \u2026 More than half of established authors earn less than the minimum wage. Many are so depressed by the state of the book industry that they are considering giving up altogether, according to a new report that canvassed more than 100,000 authors of fiction and nonfiction \u2026 Although exact comparisons are difficult to make, French writers appear to be still doing better than their British or American equivalents.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>BREAKING: Nicholson Baker loves pockets. Give him a good pair of pockets, he\u2019s happier than a pig in shit. And who isn\u2019t, really? You gonna look me in the eye and tell me you <em>don\u2019t like pockets<\/em>? \u201cI\u2019m a pocket-loving guy,\u201d Baker says in a new podcast. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chipstone.org\/podcast.php\/108\/Episode-4:-Pockets\/\" target=\"_blank\">At any moment I got a couple pens\u2014like why would you have just one pen? For a long time I tried to do everything with pockets \u2026 the pocketing of things<\/a>. The prestidigitational trickery of being able to move things from the world of public visibility into a private place. It sort of feels to me like writing. Or I guess, what I like about writing, is that paragraphs take your most personal observations, or embarrassments sometimes, fantasies, whatever they are, and you fill them up, and it feels as if you\u2019re putting them away or you\u2019re stowing them, you\u2019re pocketing them. But then because of the weird and wonderful act of publishing, you\u2019re making public what you have hidden.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Terry Southern\u2019s letters are full of the humor you\u2019d expect from him, Will Stephenson writes\u2014but as windows into his personal life, they\u2019re curiously opaque. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordamerican.org\/magazine\/item\/784-nights-of-terror-days-of-weird\" target=\"_blank\">There\u2019s something cold about Southern\u2019s persona, in other words\u2014he\u2019s always in character, always on<\/a>. The letters come complete with scenes and dialogue\u2014a voice that\u2019s arch and faux-pretentious, recalling the comedian Lord Buckley\u2014and his habit of signing them under false names only thickens the fog. Reading the book, I wondered whether Southern would have really wanted to see it published, or whether that matters. I wondered whether I even liked Terry Southern anymore, having read it \u2026 The majority of these letters, though, have to do with the labor and economics of writing \u2026 In some ways, this is the major theme of the collection\u2014where is the next check going to come from?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Alex Mar on Doreen Valiente, once dubbed \u201cthe mother of modern paganism,\u201d who believed that witchcraft was simply a means of accessing one\u2019s own power: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinhouse.com\/blog\/42475\/42475.html#.VvCMcVNqSuQ.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">One particular image of Doreen Valiente tells two unresolvable stories at once<\/a>. In this black-and-white portrait, perhaps taken in the fifties at her home in Brighton, she is, at first glance, a suburban wife seated before a pale curtain, wearing a patterned cocktail dress, a string of stones around her neck. (She was in her thirties then, her jet-black hair cut short in a wavy bob, her lips and brows painted in.) But then the photograph becomes complicated: spread before her on a table is an altar laid out with a crystal ball, a bowl, rope, candles, and incense; in one hand she holds up a large bell, in the other a ritual knife \u2026 She is the Nerd Queen, a person of rare esoteric knowledge. She is Doreen Valiente, the Mother of Modern Witchcraft \u2026 \u2018I had never felt any objection to working in the nude,\u2019 she writes. \u2018On the contrary, it was fun to be free and to dance out the circle in freedom.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>I consider it part of my job to keep you abreast of quiet advances in the robot-writing community\u2014so you should know that artificial intelligences can now write well enough to make headway in literary contests. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/books\/jacketcopy\/la-et-jc-novel-computer-writing-japan-20160322-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">In Japan, a short novel co-written by an artificial intelligence program (its co-author is human) made it past the first stage of a literary contest<\/a> \u2026 Humans decided the plot and character details of the novel, then entered words and phrases from an existing novel into a computer, which was able to construct a new book using that information \u2026 The prize committee didn\u2019t disclose which of the four computer co-written entries advanced in the competition. The <em>Japan News<\/em> reports that one of the submitted books is titled <em>The Day a Computer Writes a Novel<\/em>, which ends with the sentences \u2018I writhed with joy, which I experienced for the first time, and kept writing with excitement. The day a computer wrote a novel. The computer, placing priority on the pursuit of its own joy, stopped working for humans.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cafard and mirthlessness that have long governed French philosophers have now extended to French writers of all kinds\u2014a new survey says they\u2019ve never been unhappier. Their proposed solution? Surrender. \u201cFrench writers have never felt more badly paid, undervalued, or under pressure \u2026 More than half of established authors earn less than the minimum wage. 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