{"id":2223,"date":"2014-04-29T07:37:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T14:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2014-04-29T07:37:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T14:37:05","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e33-avoiding-disposability-with-jacques-testard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2223","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E33: Avoiding Disposability with Jacques Testard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jacquestestard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2224\" style=\"border: 0; hspace: 5; vspace: 5;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jacquestestard.jpg\" alt=\"jacquestestard\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jacquestestard.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/jacquestestard-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Colin Marshall sits down in Knightsbridge, London with Jacques Testard, founding editor of the quarterly arts journal\u00a0<em>The White Review<\/em>. They discuss the re-issue of\u00a0<em>Nairn&#8217;s Towns<\/em> featuring past guest <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2186\">Owen Hatherley<\/a>; London&#8217;s surprisingly small literary culture and what, before founding\u00a0<em>The White Review<\/em>, he didn&#8217;t see getting published; the &#8220;deeply stereotypical Williamsburg existence&#8221; he once lived in New York (in an apartment called &#8220;Magicland&#8221;, no less); his path from his hometown of Paris to London, and what those cities throw into contrast about each other; the conversations he&#8217;s had with his also-bilingual brother about the differences between reading and speaking English and French, and the fact that they can take both languages &#8220;on their own terms&#8221;; the lack of genre distinctions in the French literary market; the amount of material <em>The White Review\u00a0<\/em>publishes in translation; how a 21st-century magazine must, above all else, avoid disposability; the interviews they run, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewhitereview.org\/interviews\/interview-with-will-self\/\">Will Self<\/a> and others; a &#8220;good writer&#8217;s&#8221; ability to transcend subject matter; the engagement and\/or existence strategies that apply in New York versus those that apply in London; class in Britain as tied to education, and class in America as tied to money; his experience at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/09\/a-week-in-culture-jacques-testard-editor\/\">Jaipur Literary Festival<\/a>; and what to expect in\u00a0<em>The White Review<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewhitereview.org\/current-issue\/\">current issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Download the interview\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E33_Jacques_Testard.output.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Knightsbridge, London with Jacques Testard, founding editor of the quarterly arts journal\u00a0The White Review. 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