{"id":17722,"date":"2011-06-29T15:30:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T19:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=17722"},"modified":"2011-06-29T15:46:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T19:46:43","slug":"on-the-shelf-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/29\/on-the-shelf-4\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A cultural news roundup.<\/em><\/p>\n

  • Philip Roth<\/a> is done with reading fiction. <\/li>\n
  • As of this writing, there are 718 poetry apps<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • Coups! Cabals! Backstabbing! Drama at the Poetry Society<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • What is<\/em> \u201cdistant reading?<\/a>\u201d <\/li>\n
  • \u201cWhat seems to be happening is that Amazon\u2019s platform is being overwhelmed <\/a>by spammers who \u2018scrape\u2019 content from websites or, in some cases, actually lift entire texts, and republish them as ebooks.\u201d <\/li>\n
  • The top 10 books of 2011<\/a>? <\/li>\n
  • Face it: you can\u2019t read everything<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • \u201cI found myself thinking about \u2018translated\u2019 and \u2018foreign\u2019 as two separate things<\/a>\u2014sometimes a translated world can feel far more familiar than the foreign worlds I might find in a novel of the English language; and as a reader I am at home with both familiarity and foreignness.\u201d <\/li>\n
  • Don\u2019t even bother trying to go to this year\u2019s Edinburgh Book Festival<\/a>! <\/li>\n
  • And just in time for\u00a0Independence\u00a0Day: Plath, Hemingway, Capote and Woolf\u2014in their bathing suits.<\/a><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A cultural news roundup. Philip Roth is done with reading fiction. As of this writing, there are 718 poetry apps. Coups! Cabals! Backstabbing! Drama at the Poetry Society. What is \u201cdistant reading?\u201d \u201cWhat seems to be happening is that Amazon\u2019s platform is being overwhelmed by spammers who \u2018scrape\u2019 content from websites or, in some cases, […]<\/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":[571,1244,99,2703,2704,530,2705,969],"class_list":["post-17722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-ernest-hemingway","tag-kindle","tag-philip-roth","tag-poetry-society","tag-sylvia-plath","tag-translation","tag-truman-capote","tag-virginia-woolf"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nOn the Shelf by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 29, 2011 \u2013 A cultural news roundup. Philip Roth is done with reading fiction. As of this writing, there are 718 poetry apps. Coups! Cabals! Backstabbing! 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