{"id":9653,"date":"2018-10-22T17:05:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T23:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=9653"},"modified":"2018-10-22T17:05:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T23:05:31","slug":"the-kind-of-fiction-we-need-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/22\/the-kind-of-fiction-we-need-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kind of Fiction We Need Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never read David Foster Wallace and have only peripheral awareness of who he even is, but based on this quote (from a book called <em>Conversations with David Foster Wallace<\/em>), I like the cut of his jib:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"long\"><p>Look, man, we\u2019d probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is? In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what\u2019s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times\u2019 darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it\u2019d find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"source\" style=\"text-align: left;\">(Thanks to my friend <a href=\"https:\/\/karenkaminski.com\/todays-quote-5\/\">Karen<\/a> for this little ray of light against the grimdark&#8230; )<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never read David Foster Wallace and have only peripheral awareness of who he even is, but based on this quote (from a book called Conversations with David Foster Wallace), I like the cut of his jib: Look, man, we\u2019d probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}