{"id":19333,"date":"2011-08-10T12:55:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T16:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=19333"},"modified":"2011-08-10T23:53:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T03:53:58","slug":"on-the-shelf-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/on-the-shelf-10\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

  • Philip Levine<\/a> is America\u2019s new poet laureate.<\/li>\n
  • Save the Words<\/a> is dedicated to bringing underutilized vocabulary back into circulation. A locupletative goal!<\/li>\n
  • The Popeye Cookbook<\/a> is, not shockingly, heavy on the spinach.<\/li>\n
  • Bienvenue en France<\/em>, Google Books<\/a>!<\/li>\n
  • An unlikely hit: The Waste Land<\/a><\/em> app <\/a>earns back its costs in a mere six weeks.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cI think it\u2019s one of those things where you\u2019re standing in a room, and you\u2019re like, \u2018Let\u2019s make a new food magazine.\u2019 And that\u2019s a terrible idea. The world does not need a new food magazine<\/a> … But if it\u2019s such a bad idea that you can do a good version of it, then that\u2019s a cool challenge.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • An Edinburgh marathon reading of\u00a0Theresa Breslin\u2019s Prisoner in Alcatraz<\/a> <\/em>attempts to break the world reading record<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Signs of a publishing rebound<\/a>?<\/li>\n
  • John Burnside on researching a book: \u201cI went for a walk in the Arctic Circle <\/a>without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Watch Britten\u2019s Turn of the Screw<\/em>, live<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • \u201cThere was something a bit Wellsian<\/a> about\u00a0photographs of riots and looting across London this weekend<\/a>. Pictures of burning shops and broken windows and young men confronting uniformed police included crowdsourced images snatched by witnesses in the rapid, unexpected diffusion of trouble. The most dramatic, of\u00a0Tottenham on fire and the blackened aftermath<\/a>, are positively apocalyptic. To me, it all seems uncanny and reminiscent of late Victorian science fiction. Even the place names have that quality of ordinariness that Wells exploits in his fantasy of a London apocalypse: Tottenham in flames, insurrection in Enfield, anarchy in Leyton and Islington …\u201d<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A cultural news roundup. Philip Levine is America\u2019s new poet laureate. Save the Words is dedicated to bringing underutilized vocabulary back into circulation. A locupletative goal! The Popeye Cookbook is, not shockingly, heavy on the spinach. Bienvenue en France, Google Books! An unlikely hit: The Waste Land app earns back its costs in a mere […]<\/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":[2559],"tags":[3193,3189,865,3205,3198,1050,3196,3199,348,3191,3192,3195,3200,3202,3201,3204,3190,3197,3194,3203],"class_list":["post-19333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin","tag-arctic-circle","tag-food-magazine","tag-france","tag-google-books","tag-h-g-wells","tag-london","tag-looting","tag-philip-levine","tag-poet-laureate","tag-prisoner-in-alcatraz","tag-record","tag-riots","tag-save-the-words","tag-spinach","tag-the-popeye-cookbook","tag-the-waste-land","tag-theresa-breslin","tag-tottenham","tag-turn-of-the-screw","tag-vocabulary"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nOn the Shelf by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 10, 2011 \u2013 A cultural news roundup. 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