{"id":924,"date":"2012-09-20T15:06:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T22:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=924"},"modified":"2012-09-20T15:13:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T22:13:05","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s2e8-paris-legitimizes-with-daniel-levin-becker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S2E8: Paris Legitimizes with Daniel Levin Becker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-925\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"becker\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/becker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in San Francisco&#8217;s Castro with <a href=\"http:\/\/dinnerlunchbreakfast.com\/\">Daniel Levin Becker<\/a>, member of the experimental literary group Oulipo, reviews editor at the <em>Believer<\/em>, and author of <em>Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature<\/em>. They discuss whether Oulipo membership impresses the ladies; his earlier, long pre-Oulipo days, when he would make mixtapes consisting entirely of songs without the letter &#8220;e&#8221; in the title; his fascination with taking mundane patterns, applying enough work to them, and making something pretty incredible; palindromes, beau pr\u00e9sent, homophones, metro poems, mathematical constraints, and Greimas squares; his Fulbright-enabled stay in Paris to organize Oulipo&#8217;s junk, which led to his writing a book on the group, and then to their offer of membership even before he thought he had accrued the necessary literary steez; whether Paris retains its status as a literary-minded young American&#8217;s dream, and its status as a &#8220;literary mindfuck&#8221; nevertheless; what Paris legitimizes, including but not limited to <a href=\"http:\/\/brucemctague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/orangina-21.jpg\">sexy Orangina animals<\/a>; &#8220;gamification,&#8221; in the artistic, urban, and Silicon Valley senses; the possible use of Oulipian restrictions in <em>Many Subtle Channels<\/em> itself; what makes Oulipo distinctively French, and what its irony about the canon may have in common with the irony of D.A.R.E. shirts worn in the United States; the Believer as a representative of west coast United States literary culture, and how the scrappiness of Chicago stands in contrast; and when he suspends his Chicagoan-ness, and how much of that involves not eating spicy meats.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s2e8-paris-legitimizes-with-daniel-levin-becker\">Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s2e8-paris-legitimizes-with-daniel-levin-becker\">\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in San Francisco&#8217;s Castro with Daniel Levin Becker, member of the experimental literary group Oulipo, reviews editor at the Believer, and author of Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature. They discuss whether Oulipo membership impresses the ladies; his earlier, long pre-Oulipo days, when he would make mixtapes consisting entirely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}