{"id":16785,"date":"2011-06-08T16:03:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T20:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=16785"},"modified":"2018-12-12T16:23:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T21:23:59","slug":"on-the-shelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/08\/on-the-shelf\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A cultural news\u00a0bulletin. <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Gruffalo<\/em> author Julia Donaldson has been named the UK\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/jun\/07\/gruffalo-julia-donaldson-new-children-s-laureate\">seventh Children\u2019s Laureate<\/a>. Says she, \u201cI\u2019m hoping to bring some drama and music to the job. I always act out my own stories with lots of audience participation so I\u2019m planning to do lots more of that.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-13683221\">Jennifer Worth<\/a>, author of the <em>Call the Midwife<\/em> trilogy, has died at age seventy-five.<\/li>\n<li>Meghan Cox Gurdon\u2019s contention in the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> that<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303657404576357622592697038.html#articleTabs%3Darticle\"> YA fiction is too dark and depraved<\/a> has prompted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/jun\/07\/teen-fiction-accused\">debate and backlash<\/a>\u2014including a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/maureenjohnson\/status\/77206157579653120\">#YASaves<\/a>\u201d hashtag on Twitter.<\/li>\n<li>A new iPad app allows readers to see more than six hundred of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-13683880\">British Library\u2019s nineteenth-century texts<\/a> in their original editions\u2014including maps and illustrations. More than a thousand images can be viewed for free, until the paid app launches fully this summer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/07\/books\/harry-bernstein-writer-who-gained-fame-at-96-dies-at-101.html\">Harry Bernstein<\/a>, whose memoir, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/04\/books\/04grim.html\"><em>The Invisible Wall<\/em><\/a>, brought him fame at ninety-six, has died at 101.<\/li>\n<li>Can you pass the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/quiz\/2011\/jun\/02\/naipaul-test-author-s-sex-quiz\">Naipaul Test<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Compose a Twitter haiku in honor of <a href=\"http:\/\/koko.org\/haiku\/\">Koko the signing gorilla\u2019s fortieth<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And taking the \u201cbeach read\u201d to a literal extreme, a list of selected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/childrens-books-site\/2011\/jun\/08\/justin-somper-top-10-pirate-books\">pirate fiction.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cultural news\u00a0bulletin. 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I always act out my own stories with lots of audience participation so I\u2019m planning to do lots more of that.\u201d Jennifer Worth, author of the Call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[2507,2503,2502,2506,2505,2504],"class_list":["post-16785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-harry-bernstein","tag-jennifer-worth","tag-julia-donaldson","tag-koko","tag-maureen-johnson","tag-meghan-cox-gurdon"],"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>On the Shelf by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 8, 2011 \u2013 A cultural news\u00a0bulletin. 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