{"id":97869,"date":"2016-05-09T08:59:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T12:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=97869"},"modified":"2016-05-09T10:32:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T14:32:04","slug":"the-natural-springs-of-new-york-city-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/09\/the-natural-springs-of-new-york-city-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Natural Springs of New York City, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_97870\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/nyhssprings.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97870\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97870\" class=\"wp-image-97870\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/nyhssprings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/nyhssprings.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/nyhssprings-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/nyhssprings-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman drinks at Carman Spring, on West 175th Street east of Amsterdam Avenue, New York City, c.\u00a01897\u20131902. Photo: James Reuel Smith\/New York Historical Society.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Today in the expenditure of effort: one reason serialization has become so popular, Juliet Lapidos, is that it curtails the reader\u2019s (or viewer\u2019s) setup time, encouraging a kind of economy in entertainment: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2016\/05\/i-love-serial-entertainment-and-so-can-you\" target=\"_blank\">The most demanding part of any narrative art form is the beginning, when everything\u2014the style, the plot, the characters, perhaps even the universe in which the characters operate\u2014is new<\/a> \u2026 Series minimize that period of difficulty relative to the total experience. You do the work once, and then you\u2019re free and easy \u2026 For the last twelve years, I\u2019ve been addicted to serial novels.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Gregory Woods\u2019s new book,\u00a0<em>Homintern<\/em>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>is a history of gay conspiracy in the arts\u2014a history that, as Caleb Crain writes, requires some paradoxical thinking to address properly: \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/may\/06\/homintern-by-gregory-woods-review\">Homintern <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/may\/06\/homintern-by-gregory-woods-review\">was a portmanteau word, a mash-up of<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/may\/06\/homintern-by-gregory-woods-review\"> Comintern, <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/may\/06\/homintern-by-gregory-woods-review\" target=\"_blank\">the name of the international communist organization that flourished between the two world wars, and<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/may\/06\/homintern-by-gregory-woods-review\"> homosexual<\/a><\/em>. It referred, originally in jest, to the notion that a clique of gay men and (in smaller numbers) lesbian women controlled the arts world from behind the scenes, giving undue preference to the work of their lovers, ex-lovers and would-be lovers, and skewing taste away from the \u2018natural\u2019 and \u2018wholesome\u2019 \u2026 [Woods] rightly debunks the idea of a Homintern, pointing out that it\u2019s unfair to single out gay men for mixing romance and art\u2014\u2018as if,\u2019 he writes, \u2018heterosexual people never dedicate their books to their lovers or spouses\u2019 \u2026 Woods then proceeds, however, to devote the bulk of his book to recounting, and even celebrating, links between gay men in the arts that were half hidden and often sexual in nature\u2014the same links that he thinks it would be unjust, if not paranoid, to make too much of.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Easy advice: when you\u2019re feeling down, look at a painting of a Russian person\u2019s face. You\u2019ll be surprised, delighted, perhaps even moved. They\u2019re formidable faces. Jenny Uglow is especially fond of the portraitist Ilya Repin, whose work is well represented in a new show at the National Portrait Gallery: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2016\/05\/04\/russian-portraits-age-of-tchaikovsky-astonishing-faces\/\" target=\"_blank\">I found these serious, unsmiling portraits astonishing. They feel governed by the belief that a portrait\u2014like an intense conversation between artist and sitter\u2014can bring us closer to its subject than any new-fangled photograph could do<\/a> \u2026 There is humor in Repin\u2019s portraits as well as empathy and understanding. Great warmth, for example, in his sexy, self-possessed pianist Sophie Menter, Liszt\u2019s brilliant prot\u00e9g\u00e9; and a keen wit in his classic swagger-portrait of the salonni\u00e8re Baroness Varvara Ikskul von Hildenbandt with her wickedly pointed hat and veil. At once bold and restrained, this is painted with such enjoyment that we can almost feel the weight of the locket chain round her arm and touch the gathers of her scarlet blouse and sweeping skirt.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A century ago, James Reuel Smith could still recall the days when a New Yorker might reasonably expect to stumble upon a natural spring within city limits: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nyhistory.org\/james-reuel-smiths-new-york-city-springs\/\" target=\"_blank\">In the days, not so very long ago, when nearly all the railroad mileage of the metropolis was to be found on the lower half of the Island, nothing was more cheering to the thirsty city tourist afoot or awheel than to discover a natural spring of clear cold water, and nothing quite so refreshing as a draught of it<\/a>.\u201d(His book <em>Springs and Wells of Manhattan and the Bronx: New York City at the End of the Nineteenth Century<\/em> contains an abundance of photographs of refreshed spring-sippers.)<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s about time someone wrote a history of oral histories that isn\u2019t also an oral history: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/niemanstoryboard.org\/stories\/the-opposite-of-writing\/\" target=\"_blank\">The term <em>oral history<\/em> has been around for decades, though, early on, it was primarily the domain of folklorists, archivists, and academics<\/a>. In the 1930s, the Federal Writer\u2019s Project, funded by the New Deal, gathered the first-person narratives of former slaves, still alive in America; people who had traveled West in covered wagons; and others with interesting stories, say, about meeting Billy the Kid or surviving the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 \u2026 Some early guidelines, penned by longtime oral historian Willa Baum, in her book <em>Oral History for the Local Historical Society<\/em>, included tips that remain relevant even now: \u2018An interview is not a dialogue \u2026 Ask one question at a time \u2026 Ask brief questions \u2026 Don\u2019t let periods of silence fluster you \u2026 Try to avoid \u201coff-the-record\u201d information \u2026 Don\u2019t switch the recorder off and on \u2026 Don\u2019t use the interview to show off your knowledge, vocabulary, charm or other abilities.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in the expenditure of effort: one reason serialization has become so popular, Juliet Lapidos, is that it curtails the reader\u2019s (or viewer\u2019s) setup time, encouraging a kind of economy in entertainment: \u201cThe most demanding part of any narrative art form is the beginning, when everything\u2014the style, the plot, the characters, perhaps even the universe [&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":[18792,22249,22251,22252,22253,125,22254,9459,100,22250,22248,17520,8009,22255],"class_list":["post-97869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-conspiracy","tag-homintern","tag-ilya-repin","tag-james-reuel-smith","tag-natural-springs","tag-new-york-city","tag-oral-historians","tag-oral-history","tag-photography","tag-russian-portraits","tag-serial-storytelling","tag-serialization","tag-water","tag-willa-baum"],"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>Remember When NYC Had Natural Springs? 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