{"id":96163,"date":"2016-03-28T09:23:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T13:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=96163"},"modified":"2016-03-28T10:18:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T14:18:57","slug":"malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Malthusian Flotsam and Unspeakable Jetsam, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_96166\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hyperion_plant.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-96166\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96166\" class=\"wp-image-96166\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hyperion_plant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hyperion_plant.jpg 2304w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hyperion_plant-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hyperion_plant-768x563.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hyperion_plant-1024x751.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-96166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kirk Crawford.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Jim Harrison <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/03\/27\/469817873\/legends-of-the-fall-author-who-found-freedom-outdoors-dies-at-78\" target=\"_blank\">has died at seventy-eight<\/a>. \u201cYou don\u2019t write\u2014an artist doesn\u2019t create, or very rarely creates\u2014good art in support of different causes,\u201d he told <em>The Paris Review <\/em>in 1988. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2511\/the-art-of-fiction-no-104-jim-harrison\" target=\"_blank\">And critics have an enormous difficulty separating the attitudes of your characters from your attitudes as a writer<\/a>. You have to explain to them: I am not all the men in my novels. How could I be? I\u2019m little Jimmy back here on the farm with my wife and two daughters, and, at one time, three female horses, three female cats, and three female dogs, and I\u2019m quite a nice person.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Fact: you, too, can enjoy Aldous Huxley waxing lyrical about a controversial Los Angeles sewage treatment plant. \u201cOne day in 1939, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Mann, and two women walk along the shore south of Los Angeles. The weather is beautiful, the beach is empty, and Shakespeare is debated. Then the group realizes that something\u2019s funny about the beach. As Huxley put it in the essay, \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2016\/03\/l-a-sludge\" target=\"_blank\">Like Hyperion to a Satyr,\u2019 they are suddenly walking among \u2018ten million emblems and mementos of Modern Love \u2026 Malthusian flotsam and unspeakable jetsam<\/a>.\u2019 The four had found themselves among a sea of used condoms that ejected by Los Angeles\u2019s Hyperion sewage treatment plant. Huxley returned to those shores a few years later, after LA upgraded the plant in 1950. He was overjoyed with what he saw, and what he thought the vista suggested about the city: \u2018Another torrent, this time about 99.95 percent pure, rushes down through the submarine outfall and mingles, a mile offshore, with the Pacific. The problem of keeping a great city clean without polluting a river or fouling the beaches, and without robbing the soil of its fertility, has been triumphantly solved.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>In America, Joseph Brodsky is often held up as \u201cthe poster boy for Soviet persecution,\u201d as Cynthia Haven writes\u2014but a new biography is trying to change that perception: \u201cEllendea Proffer Teasley, in her short new memoir, <em>Brodskij sredi nas<\/em> (<em>Brodsky Among Us<\/em>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/joseph-brodsky-darker-and-brighter\/\" target=\"_blank\">offers a different view of the poet. It\u2019s an iconoclastic and spellbinding portrait, some of it revelatory<\/a>. Teasley\u2019s Brodsky is both darker and brighter than the one we thought we knew, and he is the stronger for it \u2026 According to the leading critic Anna Narinskaya, writing in the newspaper <em>Kommersant<\/em>, Teasley\u2019s memoir had been written \u2018without teary-eyed ecstasy or vicious vengefulness, without petty settling of scores with the deceased\u2014or the living\u2014and at the same time demonstrating complete comprehension of the caliber and extreme singularity of her \u201chero\u201d \u2019 \u2026 Even so, the book has yet to find a publisher in English, the language in which it was written.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Do you want Saul Bellow\u2019s desk? He sat there, wrote some books. And it\u2019s nice\u2014a mahogany roll-top job dating to the Victorian era. A steal at ten thousand bucks. Please buy it. Please, please buy it. No one else is buying it, Bellow\u2019s son told the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/why-nobody-wants-saul-bellows-desk-1458753780\" target=\"_blank\">I guess space is expensive on the Upper West Side. Nobody\u2019s got room for a giant piece of furniture<\/a> \u2026 I thought, well, this will provoke discussion. But it really didn\u2019t \u2026 I\u2019m moving to a smaller place and the desk just isn\u2019t fitting into the plan.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Problem: a staging at the Park Avenue Armory of Louis Andriessen\u2019s 1988 avant-garde opera, <em>De Materie<\/em>, calls for one hundred sheep. Solution: get the fucking sheep. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/26\/arts\/music\/a-new-breed-of-opera-diva-sheep.html\" target=\"_blank\">Simply getting hold of so many stage-ready sheep was an exceptionally difficult bit of opera casting<\/a> \u2026 The bane of international opera stars is a visa system that can be difficult to navigate. For opera sheep, it is getting the right veterinary certificates, exhibiting permits, humane handling paperwork and the like \u2026 Then there was the question of where to house them. The ovine troupers could not sleep at the Armory; could not commute from Pennsylvania; and would not have been welcome at the hotels that usually cater to visiting sopranos. So accommodations were found at the Bronx Equestrian Center, which has stables in Pelham Bay Park. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which has jurisdiction over animals in performances, issued a permit to allow the project to go ahead \u2026 Then the Armory had to be readied. A backstage paddock was built and soundproofed \u2026 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Harrison has died at seventy-eight. \u201cYou don\u2019t write\u2014an artist doesn\u2019t create, or very rarely creates\u2014good art in support of different causes,\u201d he told The Paris Review in 1988. \u201cAnd critics have an enormous difficulty separating the attitudes of your characters from your attitudes as a writer. You have to explain to them: I am [&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":[7282,5460,17610,225,21690,1054,5810,21688,217,11989,2204,21691,1194,21689,13513],"class_list":["post-96163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-aldous-huxley","tag-deaths","tag-desks","tag-furniture","tag-hyperion","tag-jim-harrison","tag-joseph-brodsky","tag-legends-of-the-fall","tag-los-angeles","tag-obituaries","tag-opera","tag-park-avenue-armory","tag-saul-bellow","tag-sewage-treatment","tag-sheep"],"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>Malthusian Flotsam and Unspeakable Jetsam, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"March 28, 2016 \u2013 Jim Harrison has died at seventy-eight. \u201cYou don\u2019t write\u2014an artist doesn\u2019t create, or very rarely creates\u2014good art in support of different causes,\u201d he\" \/>\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\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malthusian Flotsam and Unspeakable Jetsam, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"March 28, 2016 \u2013 Jim Harrison has died at seventy-eight. \u201cYou don\u2019t write\u2014an artist doesn\u2019t create, or very rarely creates\u2014good art in support of different causes,\u201d he\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-03-28T13:23:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-03-28T14:18:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hyperion_plant.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2304\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1689\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dan Piepenbring\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dan Piepenbring\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6b16ca558fc538230f135c3220dfd3c8\"},\"headline\":\"Malthusian Flotsam and Unspeakable Jetsam, and Other News\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-28T13:23:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-03-28T14:18:57+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/\"},\"wordCount\":741,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hyperion_plant.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Aldous Huxley\",\"deaths\",\"desks\",\"furniture\",\"Hyperion\",\"Jim Harrison\",\"Joseph Brodsky\",\"Legends of the Fall\",\"Los Angeles\",\"obituaries\",\"opera\",\"Park Avenue Armory\",\"Saul Bellow\",\"sewage treatment\",\"sheep\"],\"articleSection\":[\"On the Shelf\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/\",\"name\":\"Malthusian Flotsam and Unspeakable Jetsam, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hyperion_plant.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-28T13:23:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-03-28T14:18:57+00:00\",\"description\":\"March 28, 2016 \u2013 Jim Harrison has died at seventy-eight. \u201cYou don\u2019t write\u2014an artist doesn\u2019t create, or very rarely creates\u2014good art in support of different causes,\u201d he\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hyperion_plant.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hyperion_plant.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Malthusian Flotsam and Unspeakable Jetsam, and Other News\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"description\":\"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"width\":696,\"height\":696,\"caption\":\"The Paris Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6b16ca558fc538230f135c3220dfd3c8\",\"name\":\"Dan Piepenbring\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6fde7ced443ba5b52db3b06239dca8a2eaeff111fccecd7bf483663c99d2762b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6fde7ced443ba5b52db3b06239dca8a2eaeff111fccecd7bf483663c99d2762b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Dan Piepenbring\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/dpiepenbring\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Malthusian Flotsam and Unspeakable Jetsam, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring","description":"March 28, 2016 \u2013 Jim Harrison has died at seventy-eight. \u201cYou don\u2019t write\u2014an artist doesn\u2019t create, or very rarely creates\u2014good art in support of different causes,\u201d he","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Malthusian Flotsam and Unspeakable Jetsam, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring","og_description":"March 28, 2016 \u2013 Jim Harrison has died at seventy-eight. \u201cYou don\u2019t write\u2014an artist doesn\u2019t create, or very rarely creates\u2014good art in support of different causes,\u201d he","og_url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/","og_site_name":"The Paris Review","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","article_published_time":"2016-03-28T13:23:32+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-03-28T14:18:57+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2304,"height":1689,"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hyperion_plant.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Dan Piepenbring","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@parisreview","twitter_site":"@parisreview","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dan Piepenbring","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/"},"author":{"name":"Dan Piepenbring","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6b16ca558fc538230f135c3220dfd3c8"},"headline":"Malthusian Flotsam and Unspeakable Jetsam, and Other News","datePublished":"2016-03-28T13:23:32+00:00","dateModified":"2016-03-28T14:18:57+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/"},"wordCount":741,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hyperion_plant.jpg","keywords":["Aldous Huxley","deaths","desks","furniture","Hyperion","Jim Harrison","Joseph Brodsky","Legends of the Fall","Los Angeles","obituaries","opera","Park Avenue Armory","Saul Bellow","sewage treatment","sheep"],"articleSection":["On the Shelf"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/","name":"Malthusian Flotsam and Unspeakable Jetsam, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hyperion_plant.jpg","datePublished":"2016-03-28T13:23:32+00:00","dateModified":"2016-03-28T14:18:57+00:00","description":"March 28, 2016 \u2013 Jim Harrison has died at seventy-eight. \u201cYou don\u2019t write\u2014an artist doesn\u2019t create, or very rarely creates\u2014good art in support of different causes,\u201d he","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hyperion_plant.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/hyperion_plant.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/malthusian-flotsam-and-unspeakable-jetsam-and-other-news\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Malthusian Flotsam and Unspeakable Jetsam, and Other News"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","name":"The Paris Review","description":"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization","name":"The Paris Review","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","width":696,"height":696,"caption":"The Paris Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/6b16ca558fc538230f135c3220dfd3c8","name":"Dan Piepenbring","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6fde7ced443ba5b52db3b06239dca8a2eaeff111fccecd7bf483663c99d2762b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6fde7ced443ba5b52db3b06239dca8a2eaeff111fccecd7bf483663c99d2762b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Dan Piepenbring"},"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/dpiepenbring\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96170,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96163\/revisions\/96170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}