{"id":22162,"date":"2011-10-12T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=22162"},"modified":"2011-10-12T16:11:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T20:11:17","slug":"on-the-shelf-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/12\/on-the-shelf-19\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

  • Roberto Saviano<\/a> has won the PEN\/Pinter International Writer of Courage Award for his expos\u00e9s on the Naples mafia. <\/li>\n
  • Steve Jobs, the movie<\/a>?<\/li>\n
  • Catch-22<\/em>, the\u00a0cartoon<\/a>!<\/li>\n
  • Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker<\/a> is now an editor at large at Faber & Faber.<\/li>\n
  • Christopher Hitchens<\/a>: \u201cThe influence of Larkin is much greater than I thought. He\u2019s perfect for people who are thinking about death. You\u2019ve got that old-line Calvinist pessimism and modern, acid cynicism\u2014a very good combo. He\u2019s not liking what he sees, and not pretending to.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Amy Winehouse\u2019s father, Mitch<\/a>, will write a memoir.<\/li>\n
  • Asterix<\/a> goes on the road in his retirement. <\/li>\n
  • Audio fiction<\/a> goes Hollywood. <\/li>\n
  • Dale Carnegie<\/a> goes digital. <\/li>\n
  • Margaret Atwood<\/a> goes green.<\/li>\n
  • Coetzee\u2019s papers<\/a>, meanwhile, go to the University of Texas. <\/li>\n
  • \u201cThe first real recipes for what you could identify as biscotti<\/a> come from about 1550 or so.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Franzen on David Foster Wallace\u2019s non-fiction<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Literary matchmaking<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Literary jerks<\/a>.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A cultural news roundup. Roberto Saviano has won the PEN\/Pinter International Writer of Courage Award for his expos\u00e9s on the Naples mafia. Steve Jobs, the movie? Catch-22, the\u00a0cartoon! Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker is now an editor at large at Faber & Faber. Christopher Hitchens: \u201cThe influence of Larkin is much greater than I thought. He\u2019s […]<\/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":[4334,4335,4337,4333,3022,1626,4336,154,4332,829,4331,110,4330,714,4329,4328,2253,4327,4274],"class_list":["post-22162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin","tag-amy-winehouse","tag-asteriz","tag-biscotti","tag-calvinist","tag-catch-22","tag-christopher-hitchens","tag-dale-carnegie","tag-david-foster-wallace","tag-faber-faber","tag-j-m-coetzee","tag-jarvis-cocker","tag-jonathan-franzen","tag-mafia","tag-margaret-atwood","tag-naples","tag-pen","tag-philip-larkin","tag-robert-saviano","tag-steve-jobs"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nOn the Shelf by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"October 12, 2011 \u2013 A cultural news roundup. 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