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Everything that unfolds in “The Nanny” is a mystery because Cline doesn’t tell us upfront what’s going on. “Jesus,” he said, rubbing his eyes. Now this might be a great technique for hooking some readers. Her sunburn made her skin feel tight. In the hallway, she passed someone dumping the dregs of their drink into a potted plant. There is no ending. Rafe in his button-down and jeans, surrounded by women and children. Emma Cline Sort By Genre. Have you ever dreamed of writing fiction? “She considered it the definitive interview with her as a novelist, but it took me several days to get her to cop to the fact that she was an essayist, too.”, Between 2017 and 2019, I met Hirsch four times at the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation’s office in Midtown Manhattan, a stone’s throw from Grand Central Terminal. However, writing techniques are not the only thing I’m studying with this BASS 2020 project. “About a girl who was the first female falconer in Mongolia.” She paused. Mary, with her great house up in the canyons, all the seventies wood left untouched. It was a felt doughnut, dotted with felt sprinkles. She tried to keep a mild smile on her face, in case. His voice was cold. So her mother called Mary, the witness at her small courthouse wedding, though the wedding had been followed quickly by divorce. Kayla watched Dennis approach in the Volvo—he would have had to inch through the photographers at the main entrance. A special bonus episode, recorded live at On Air Fest on March 8, 2020 (just before social distancing sent everyone home), featuring a crowded room of lovely human beings enjoying an immersive live performance of The Paris Review Podcast. Kayla had been offered a TV interview. The silence was fine. The shoot had stopped again. He seemed pleased by his ingenuity. Kayla looked past Dennis but Sophie was gone. Jessica had sent Kayla up to their room to grab sunscreen for Henry. The room was empty. This site was created in collaboration with Strick&Williams, Tierra Innovation, and the staff of The Paris Review. “Suddenly, I had a different kind of day job,” he said. Jessica came in late, sitting down at the table. When he noticed Kayla was watching him, Dennis seemed to get self-conscious. Dennis started laughing, but it just seemed weary. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! The tone of his voice surprised her—when she glanced at him, he looked intently at the floor. She published her first novel, "The Girls", in 2016, to positive reviews. Because that part was true, anyway, she had gotten careless about texting Rafe, toward the end, and even if he rarely texted her back, Jessica would have seen right away what was happening. She tucked her bare legs in the sheets and pulled them up over herself. And what then? Did Dee Dee remember her? “Actually,” Kayla said, “I’m pretty tired. “I’m not in your eye line,” she said. It's Wonderful! Reception was awful this high in the canyon. Reading, Ruminating, Writing, & Other Neurological Disorders, News and scholarship on H.P. Then the whir of the projector, and on the screen appeared hovering portals of light and color, squares of beauty. It’s bull shit man. Kayla had no photos of her and Rafe together. The crew didn’t like talking to her anymore. She explores characters navigating the edge, the limits of themselves and those around them: power dynamics in families, in relationships, the distance between their true and false selves. “I found this in the forest,” Sophie said. I’m reading and reviewing The Best American Short Stories 2020 (BASS 2020) this year to see if I can spot what good writers do that I don’t. Everything he did was slow. He was proud to point out his book collection, lining the walls of a foyer, a reception area, and his large office. She would bet anything that Mary was tearing up right now, overcome by the sight of a soaring falcon or a close-up of an old man’s hands, wind whipping across a Mongolian plain. “Hi, you,” she’d said, going to kiss him, and he fumbled, kissing her back with tight lips. It was cashmere, the color of root beer. He was, after all, a good actor. Even then. I accept that in literary stories, but do most readers? What to do but continue to exist? They had dug up photos of Kayla lagging behind Rafe and Jessica, holding Henry’s hand. There was the sunscreen on the counter. “They found something in the gate.”. I was thinking of something—it always makes me laugh—that Joe Brainard said to a friend of mine on the phone and my friend shared with me. 7. I should go. She searched Rafe’s name, searched her own. The guy squinted into the middle distance, shrugged. “Really. There isn’t much in the house,” Mary said. It was strange to walk through the rooms, open the closets, touch the hanging dresses, Rafe’s pants, sweaters folded with tissue paper. He left me to pay. Revising your ideas of what’s going on, and your opinions of the characters, is part of the fun of litfic. She knew before they finished loading that there would be nothing. This makes “The Nanny” an important story to study because we know Cline has the knack for attracting readers. Was it the job that brought you East? This page is primarily managed by Random House. Rafe nodded at her but didn’t come over to say hi. Dennis steered Kayla through the last gasps of the party, toward the front door. Bugs Bunny. In ten remarkable stories, Emma Cline portrays moments when the ordinary is disturbed, when daily life buckles, revealing the perversity and violence pulsing under the surface. Sophie crouched but didn’t sit. The food was out on a table, guests hovering with their plates. I’ve looked up to him as an older brother ever since. “Okay, honey,” Sophie said, and patted her cheek gently. She had not seen it before, how annoyed he looked, beleaguered, surrounded by Jessica and Kayla, Henry, people who needed things from him. It was as if she’d once been fluent in another language, now forgotten. So many of the stories I admire require two or three readings before all the author’s efforts are revealed. Professor Hunnison, she thought miserably, do you ever think of me? Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. De meisjes. // Our theme song is composed by David Cieri. Lazy, grasping for shortcuts. Rodin’s challenge to classical notions of fixed iconographic goals, Michelangelo’s bodies as vessels for God’s will. ( Log Out /  It was Kayla’s day off; Jessica had taken Henry to one of the mountain towns for the afternoon. She could hear, from the living room, the sounds of the documentary, the swell of Mongolian music gaining in urgency. They were covered in sugar but you were supposed to ignore that, focus instead on the fishy fat plumping your brain and making it pinker and brighter. The wildness of the backyard made everything beyond it look fake: the city skyline, the stars. He didn’t actually say this in so many words, but she understood it, the sentiment was there in his big, swimmy eyes—he would stay in this hotel room all day. Emma Cline is an American writer and novelist, originally from California. Were there any new ones? And as soon as I started reading “The Nanny” I noticed that her story is full of significant details. The studio had given him so much money. I protested again. When we sat down, he said that we had both written poems about salt. She tried to eke out another thought from her inflamed brain. Bugs said these things without his mouth moving. “You’re sitting in my eye line,” Rafe said. Hirsch, whose honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Prix de Rome, and a MacArthur Fellowship, has also written several books about poetry, most notably the encyclopedic A Poet’s Glossary (2014), which was spawned by the popular How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999). The Girls is a 2016 debut novel by American author Emma Cline.It is loosely inspired by the Manson Family and the murder of actress Sharon Tate.. Getting short stories published is like making it onto farm team in baseball – but the real goal is to get into the show. The thing was, she was a smart girl. Would Rafe? WRITING LESBIAN FICTION, SCIENCE FICTION, AND FANTASY, SINCE THE 20TH CENTURY. Get some lunch?”, “Yes,” she said. I just don’t like to be bombarded. He looked grim. “I don’t know,” Kayla said. Waiting for Kayla. Kayla was wearing aviators and looked unhappy in the pictures, her lips thin, her hair brassy and overwashed. The first time she met Jessica was at the interview, after the agency had already approved her. Writing stories is much harder than it looks. “Why are they stopped?” she asked one of the lighting guys. She was a vain, silly girl. “I’m gonna try to sleep.”. He finished the brownie in one bite, wiping his lips with the napkin. Sophie and Kayla stood in silence, the noise of the party beyond, Sophie’s room easing from red to yellow to turquoise. In that case, any benefit you get from reading what I say comes from my observations, so I matter as well spill the beans. Kayla plucked her dress away from her armpits, but it was futile—the fabric would stain, of course it would. It couldn’t have been enjoyable for the twelve or thirteen people who were there. Kayla didn’t have her own car, had used one of Rafe and Jessica’s. They kept glancing at Kayla in the rearview. He has conducted five interviews for The Paris Review, among them conversations with W. S. Merwin, Derek Walcott, and Susan Sontag. Dennis started to say something, then stopped himself. About Emma Cline. The hills were a dark mass, occasionally marked with houses. “Well,” he said, “at least I don’t have to go to any more poetry readings.” He paused. This is really literary fiction of the finest in 2020. “You’ll feel better,” she said. He submitted himself to her with great patience. You time it so they’re settled into their characters and still showing up.”. Rafe had his hand on her under the sheet, his eyes closed. He looked like a sad and tired animal, pulling through the security gates, and Kayla felt, briefly, that she had done something terrible. If she were just sunburned, it would be fine, but it was sores, too, these raised red bites. “I even have to wear it at school.”. It takes a long time to create a first book, which goes through so many different iterations. What’s up with Mary and Dennis rescuing the damsel in distress who it turns out is a drama queen who only wants more time in the spot light which attempts to garner by playing cat and mouse with the Tabloid press. The final ones from Jessica were from two weeks ago, all logistical. Emma McLaughlin en Nicola Kraus zijn respectievelijk zevenentwintig en achtentwintig jaar oud, en werkten beiden ruim acht jaar als nanny in New York. In the end we are told the sad reality of Kayla’s dreams: Kayla lives in a society that admires people who create successful identities and she struggles to find anything at all to set herself apart. And now I see why we had that Twitter discussion about second reads a few days ago. Kayla understood that Mary was a nice person without really believing it; Mary irritated her. Mary had been her mother’s college roommate, now a drug and alcohol counselor. Mary stood in the porch doorway, just a black shadow. She blinked heavily and smiled. Kayla appears to be our protagonist, and she’s being fed on the fly, maybe even an inconvenient or unwanted guest. “You don’t think you are, but it’s my eye line, that’s the point,” Rafe said. Where was Dee Dee now? She could tell he was irritable, hungry, antsy, wanting a shower, wanting a drink. He stopped at the gate and waited to be buzzed in. In de tien verhalen figureren veel dolende, vaak licht verknipte meisjes, maar Cline kruipt net zo makkelijk in het hoofd van middelbare mannen die zich al hebben verzoend met de leegte van hun bestaan. Convincing her there was some lesson in all this. Emma Cline’s debut novel, The Girls, has taken the country by storm, easily becoming the most talked-about book of the year. Jessica touched the chain absently, smiled at her. I don’t think many people who are reading this blog plan to read these stories. Was it fair of Cline to hide Kayla’s faults from us? In this case, I think it was exaggerated to deliberately present Kayla initially with no information – a sort of paparazzi/tabloid approach, in which people only know that she was the nanny in bed with the dad. Once, at Bread Loaf, I heard Brigit Pegeen Kelly read her poem “Song.” It was mythic. Kayla sweated through her dress by the time she got to the set. “The Nanny” by Emma Cline is available to read online at The Paris Review. The sun washed out everything so it looked sketchy, unfinished. The on-set doctor had said to keep drinking water, to watch for cloudy thinking. Kayla sat up. She was waiting for them to shoot the opening sequence. Kayla felt a curious elation, a giddy feeling—how much time she had wasted trying to be beautiful, when it was obvious, now, how impossible that was. “Watch.” She flipped a switch on a plastic flower keychain and it started to cycle through different colored lights. She found herself testing out the wording, imagining how she would charac­terize the feeling to Rafe if he called. She pulled a ziplock from her backpack, and shook out a Sonata, nibbling off a bitter shard. Sophie gestured at two Barbies, nude and prone under a paper towel, their fingers fused and slightly fluted. All the pent-up feeling made me nervous and I felt exposed. “So we can just wait here.” His mouth was full, and he was ignoring the crumbs falling down his front, gumming up his teeth. “I feel bad. A script supervisor was doing a crossword on his phone. I can hang here.”, “You shouldn’t be alone,” Mary said. “I made this house for them,” Sophie said, indicating an empty bookshelf. Daddy: Stories - Kindle edition by Cline, Emma. That wasn’t how the world worked, and wasn’t it a little tragic that Dennis didn’t know that yet? He wished her well. But I’ve adjusted.”. Still, it smelled like a teenager, fumes of Old Spice and cheap jerk-off lotion, unwashed sports equipment lingering in the closet. At first I wondered if this was going to be a #MeToo story, but it’s not. He was wearing a visor whose brim was gnawed with age, a fleece vest embroidered with the logo of a vitamin company. Since I don’t think I should spoil the story for you, I can’t tell you why Cline is doing this. Most readings just make me slink farther and farther down in my seat. “Dennis and I are going to a friend’s for dinner tonight,” Mary said. Had she heard the news? “The Tree” excerpted from Collected Poems: 1950-2012 © 2016 by the Adrienne Rich Literary Trust. Cline captures a young woman who flows along with an almost nihilistic outlook. Then Kayla is on the run from paparazzi and bad press. He wanted to tell me about a long poem he’d written about the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. She pressed a wet finger to the bag to pick up any residue, then gave up, swallowing the second half of the pill with the last sip of her beer. Mary poured her more water. That rarely happens. 6. Cline is echt heel goed. To summon someone like Dennis to a place like this. One shelf had a Band-Aid box next to a Barbie lying on its side in a tight, shiny dress. A split-second reprieve where she could believe that perhaps the forces in the universe were aligning and aiming something from Rafe in her direction. De … Strange how these were facts that would mean something to other people, too, strangers who didn’t even know him. She wasn’t as pretty as Jessica. She opened her eyes when she felt a soft object pressing against her mouth. She knew Rafe didn’t want her to make a scene. She came across a new photo—she looked only okay. It had been one of the appealing things about the job, the car, though now it seemed very stupid, another way her life was tethered to those people. If you wait too long everyone just hates each other, they’re rushing through it. “You should get up,” Dennis said. We got in line to buy coffee and he started singing and carrying on, talking to everyone. When Kayla didn’t say anything, the girl busied herself with a box in the corner. But it wasn’t really true, was it, that she was terrible? It’s not that we eventually turn against Kayla completely, but it would have been more useful knowing her weaknesses sooner. Emma Cline is the author of the highly praised bestseller The Girls, which was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and the John Leonard Award from the National Book Critics Circle, and the short story collection Daddy…. She read it aloud while Henry stared at the ceiling. The story concludes in a way that turns even us against her: Would the story had been just as successful is Cline had told us right up front that Kayla was on the run for having sex with a married actor and the popular opinion was against her? "Emma Cline is an American writer and novelist, originally from California. A certain pair of jeans she loved was not, she saw, as flattering as she’d imagined it to be. “You’re a nice girl,” he said. But how can I talk about the story then? Kayla shook her head. She’d been dreaming. I’ve even studied it in college. “I’m fine.” Kayla made her voice excessively polite. She was bent close to Jessica’s face: her skin lightly tanned, her hair almost the same color, all her features so tiny and symmetrical that Kayla could hardly look away, absorbed in the seamlessness of Jessica’s beauty. Before Tuesday there had been hardly any record of Kayla: an old fund-raising page from Students for a Free Tibet; a blog run by a second cousin with photos from a long-ago family reunion, teenage Kayla, mouth full of braces, holding a paper plate bent with barbecue. Where classic films are very much alive! For Henry’s eighth birthday, Kayla got him a machine that carbonated water and a book she had loved as a child. This makes “The Nanny” an important story to study because we know Cline has the knack for attracting readers. She said it silently to herself and her heart pounded faster. Through the course of the story we learn she wasn’t smart enough. Where had he found a brownie along the way? She was distracted: her necklace had caught on her sweater. Someone opened the door. There’s several answers to that. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Granta, and The Paris Review, and she was the winner of the 2014 Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review. The actual filming was too far from the trailer for Kayla to hear anything. 'Emma Cline is een waanzinnig goede schrijver. Kayla’s dress had ridden up and her underwear was showing. He knew she was here. It’s really about Kayla attitude towards the world. She could feel the makeup girl glancing at them. Kayla had always expected something like this to happen to her. Met buitengewoon inzicht en scherpte toont ze alledaagse misverstanden met perverse, gewelddadige en levensveranderende gevolgen. Rafe had once pulled the crotch of that one-piece to the side to stick a blunt finger inside her. It was Dennis, Dennis with his blousy shirt, his hairy forearms. Join the writers and staff of The Paris Review at our next event. You’re a Midwesterner. Mary and Dennis hope to help Kayla, and see her as a good person – at first. “How’d you start acting?” she asked. Maybe check the garage refrigerator?”. She didn’t know these people. Emma Cline is from California. They were actually alone only once. He looked like he was twenty years old. Kayla liked them, too—one for him, two for her. They’d made his eyebrows too dark and they read clownish. Should we always read short stories twice immediately? '...and say my glory was I had such friends.' No. I was then invited to read outside on the parkway in Philadelphia. Personally, I would have preferred to know the ending right up front, and then got to watch Kayla closely throughout the story to understand all the interactions of the characters. What would they do, take her phone away? Outside was nicer. “Dennis, do we have any beer? Change ), sf & critical theory join forces to destroy the present, Multiple Estrangements in Philosophy and Science Fiction, (mostly) short reviews of (mostly) short fiction, A celebration of stories that, while they may have been invented, are still true, The Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Author & Editor Blog, Witchcraft, Magick, Paganism & Metaphysical Matters. The book was shortlisted for the John Leonard Award from the National Book Critics Circle and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Poor Henry. She flipped through it: the kid appeared to go to the kind of school where everyone learned to knit in lieu of taking prescription amphetamines. First and foremost, we naturally like the art form, but more specifically, we get hooked by the opening: I didn’t find this opening very enticing. ( Log Out /  Probably, Mary thought, this was just the result of an absent father, an overworked mother. Must be cheerful, enthusiastic and selfless--bordering on masochistic. Gabriel (2014), Hirsch’s ninth book, is a virtuosic confessional sequence in tercets about the life and death, at twenty-two, of his troubled son. She opened her texts. Rafe was away for almost a month, filming eight time zones away, but as soon as Henry was on winter break, he and Jessica flew to meet him, Kayla coming, too, her pay doubled. “Up we go,” Dennis said. They ran the scene again. “Thank you,” Kayla said. Things I want to remember – James Wallace Harris, by James Wallace Harris, Sunday, November 15, 2020. Kayla is hired by Rafe and Jessica to nanny their son Henry. You were obviously undeterred by the unnerving experience. Met buitengewoon inzicht en scherpte toont ze alledaagse misverstanden met perverse, gewelddadige en levensveranderende gevolgen. His gaze is concentrated and powerful. De kwetsbare psyche van de mens valt in handen van een manipulatieve, gevaarlijke man. It was strange. For lunch, Kayla made grilled cheese sandwiches on brown bread and cut apple slices. Those were certainly “challenging” years. Her voice was faint. But then, we wouldn’t know the breadcrumbs Cline sprinkled throughout the story meant unless we read the story twice. Dennis scanned Kayla’s face, her eyes, her mouth, and she could tell he was seeing what he wanted to see, finding confirmation of whatever redemptive story he’d told himself about who she was. BASS 2020: “Sibling Rivalry” by Michael Byers, The Best American Short Stories 2020 Project, The Best American Short Stories 2020 – Auxiliary Memory, BASS 2020: Emma Cline, “The Nanny” from The Paris Review #231 | A Just Recompense, BASS 2020: Leigh Newman, “Howl Palace” from Paris Review #230 | A Just Recompense. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. People only ever “invited” Rafe to do the things he was supposed to do. He kept joking about how he didn’t know how to do anything. Emma Cline is the author of The Girls, which was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize and the John Leonard Award from the National Book Critics Circle.She received the Plimpton Prize from The Paris Review and was chosen as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists.She is from Northern California. Her name was Dee Dee and all Kayla remembered was that she had a tendency to shower with the curtain open, that she picked at her face at the sink, leaving behind tiny shrapnel of pus on the mirror. Not what you see. They’re just too cute. Would he ever know this feeling? She had lots of them: Rafe liked to nap with one arm flung over his head. A waste, she probably believed, Kayla just twenty-four years old and now this. I do know what’s happening because I’ve already read the story, but at this point for first time readers, the motives of this paragraph are a mystery. When Kayla didn’t respond, she kept on. Person. I told him that I had a lot of ideas about teaching poetry and he should ask me about them. I’d just gotten hired for a job in the Pennsylvania Poetry in the Schools program. I’m just gonna go to bed.”. Mary seemed taken aback, and Kayla took the opportunity to pick up her beer, her phone, to walk past Mary and make her way to the bedroom. Her body would go. Fiction; Daily; Back to Author Index Fiction The Nanny Issue no. Sign up for the Paris Review newsletter and keep up with news, parties, readings, and more. These first collections set the stage for others, such as On Love (1998) and Lay Back the Darkness (2003), that spotlighted a poet of both emotion and intellect, a poet as able to explore metaphysical subjects as to give voice to the disenfranchised. “’Cause I get claustrophobic.”, “Yeah,” Sophie whined through the mask. How many poetry readings do you think you’ve gone to? A cigar box of coins and a pair of cuff links made from typewriter keys, a yearbook in which only girls had written. The one time she’d gone to the store, someone had taken photos of her filling up Mary’s car with gas on the way back. God help us. The first few days, she felt fine, but Kayla had a delayed reaction to the required vaccines, the whites of her eyes going milky, dreams leaking into her waking life. Best to parcel them out, save some for later. And I’m seeing you.”. What if we were told Kayla was a graduate school dropout at the beginning of the story and she was searching for any kind of recognition she could latch onto? That was between them always, the pretended unknowing. Giotto and his reimaginings of De Voragine’s text in his frescoes. Jessica was always around, or some PA with a walkie-talkie appearing to “invite” Rafe to set. “I’m not even that hungry.”. What scene was this? The dress was a nice fabric, a sort of linen and silk blend, the color of asphalt—she fingered the fabric, idly, where it draped across her knees. She could try to walk closer to the road again, out by the neighbor’s fence, but Mary would notice and say something. An interview in Playboy, too, though apparently they were no longer shooting nudes. Can I trust you to go read the story and then come back? “Can you just—” Jessica gestured, and Kayla took over, gentling the latch, trying not to tug so the sweater wouldn’t stretch. The security cameras were recording her getting into Dennis’s car. Evidently Kayla is hiding out because she’s become notorious on the internet with a famous person named Rafe. Was that the second or the third time? If you searched him, everything was there—his allergies, his approximate height, photos of him as a young man. After they’d arrived, Rafe had barely looked at her. They were shooting by the cliffs that day, close enough that Kayla walked the ten minutes through the dunes, full of sand gnats and horseshit. A lot of times, initial confusion is just part of the whole in media res thing. Even though I’m about to nitpick another story, I must reiterate that all these stories are well written and entertaining. But how could Kayla explain? She watched Rafe say something, watched him tilt his face up at the sky. “Unless I give you the medicine.” Kayla heard Sophie fumble in the room, the sound of drawers and boxes. The things she had once known—Rodin! Kayla sat cross-legged, her glass cradled in her lap. She just goes through the motions as Mary and Dennis take care of her out of pity. But the actors don’t jell yet, you see. What I see. Finally Finished War and Peace – But Do I Recommend It? She published her first novel, The Girls, in 2016, to positive reviews. It was a very sad call because Joe was dying of AIDS-related pneumonia, but then he brightened up a little. Her face. Bugs didn’t have anywhere else to be. Lovecraft (1890–1937) and his works, Articles about riveting topics in science. The contents of the endless gift bags, perfume and makeup, so many lotions, a microcurrent wand, items Kayla would search out online, finding the exact retail prices, adding up the numbers until she got a little drunk. He checked his phone. However, I’m not sure what kind of reader will like them. People had an animal instinct for power, could sense that her usefulness was at its end. What could have been a long and sustained period of enjoyment and satisfaction as you realized your literary ambitions with a successful first (and distinctly feminine) literary novel became a time of sustained anxiety and fear. Brightened up a little the final ones from Jessica were from a rock climbing accident Unless read... 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