{"id":19631,"date":"2011-08-17T12:44:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T16:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=19631"},"modified":"2011-08-17T12:44:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T16:44:47","slug":"on-the-shelf-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/on-the-shelf-11\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

  • Just Kids<\/a><\/em> gets the big-screen treatment.<\/li>\n
  • So does Tolkien<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • Kathryn Stockett<\/a> triumphs in court (as well as at the movies).<\/li>\n
  • Need an alternative to The Help<\/em>? Try Welty<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • \u201cAs a kid I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library<\/a> on their way to work during the summer holidays and I would walk home at night. For several years I read the children\u2019s library until I finished the children\u2019s library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them. With the kids\u2019 library I did it alphabetically but I discovered I couldn’t do that with the adult one because there were too many big boring books to read, so I did it by interesting covers.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • A tribute to Wendy Wasserstein<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • Amazon<\/a> moves in on publishing with first \u201cmajor\u201d deal.<\/li>\n
  • The next best thing to a vacation? Reading about a vacation<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • The movies may be complete, and the books long finished, but Harry Potter fans need not despair:\u00a0Pottermore launches in October<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • The case for spoilers!<\/a> <\/li>\n
  • Who\u2019s your favorite deliciously awful fictional character<\/a>? <\/li>\n
  • Bookstores clear a \u201cRick Perry<\/a>\u201d section. <\/li>\n
  • \u201cAh ha! I\u2019ve finally put my finger on a concrete reason for my lingering, irrational, doubtless soon-to-be-jettisoned prejudice against e-readers<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A cultural news roundup. Just Kids gets the big-screen treatment. So does Tolkien. Kathryn Stockett triumphs in court (as well as at the movies). Need an alternative to The Help? 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