{"id":17490,"date":"2011-06-22T17:49:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T21:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=17490"},"modified":"2018-12-12T15:38:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T20:38:13","slug":"on-the-shelf-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/22\/on-the-shelf-3\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A cultural news roundup.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/21\/books\/a-whitney-ellsworth-new-york-review-publisher-dies-at-75.html?_r=1\">A. Whitney Ellsworth<\/a>, the first publisher of <em>The New York Review of Books<\/em>, has died at seventy-five.<\/li>\n<li>Even Kate Middleton\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-2006615\/Kate-Middleton-Wimbledon-letter-Thank-note--spelling-mistake.html\">spelling<\/a> is under scrutiny.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/jun\/20\/andrea-levy-wins-walter-scott-prize\">Andrea Levy\u2019s<\/a> <em>The Long Song<\/em> has won the Walter Scott prize for historical fiction.<\/li>\n<li>Whoa. Keanu Reeves <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/harriet\/2011\/06\/keanu-reeves-first-book-of-poetry-finally\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HarrietTheBlog+%28Harriet%3A+The+Blog%29\">writes poetry<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/22\/pottermore-whats-next-for-harry-potter\/?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Pottermore<\/a> mania!<\/li>\n<li>Celebrate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/interactive\/2011\/jun\/20\/independent-booksellers-week-twitter-map\">Independent Bookseller\u2019s Week<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Hobbit<\/em> movie will contain <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/20\/hobbit-cast-adds-evangeline-lilly-dame-edna-and-sherlock-holmes\/?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">an elf character <\/a>not found in the original book, to be played by Evangeline Lilly.<\/li>\n<li>The first self-published author to sell a million e-books is one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/jun\/22\/pass-notes-john-locke-ebooks\">John Locke<\/a> (not to be confused with the philosopher).<\/li>\n<li>Says<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/06\/20\/137151021\/you-think-thats-bad-fiction-of-the-unfamiliar?ft=1&amp;f=1032\"> Jim Shepard <\/a>of his ominously named story collection <em>You Think That\u2019s Bad<\/em>: \u201cIt does seem to embody some of the characters\u2019 worldviews &#8230; [It\u2019s like saying,] \u2018Wait until you see what\u2019s coming.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In order to compete against online retailers, independent bookstores may have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/22\/business\/media\/22events.html?ref=books\">to start charging<\/a> for their events.\u00a0Ann Patchett is concerned:\u00a0\u201cI wouldn\u2019t want the people who have no idea who I am and have nothing else to do on a Wednesday night shut out. Those are your readers.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Who will win the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/childrens-books-site\/quiz\/2011\/jun\/22\/quiz-greenaway-winners\">Greenaway Medal<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/the-greatest-baseball-game-ever-played\/\">the greatest baseball game ever played<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cultural news roundup. A. Whitney Ellsworth, the first publisher of The New York Review of Books, has died at seventy-five. Even Kate Middleton\u2019s spelling is under scrutiny. Andrea Levy\u2019s The Long Song has won the Walter Scott prize for historical fiction. Whoa. Keanu Reeves writes poetry. Pottermore mania! Celebrate Independent Bookseller\u2019s Week. 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