{"id":22676,"date":"2011-10-26T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T19:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=22676"},"modified":"2011-10-26T17:23:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T21:23:58","slug":"on-the-shelf-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/on-the-shelf-21\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

  • Whiting winners <\/a>have been announced.<\/li>\n
  • A Shakespeare organization defends the Bard\u2019s honor<\/a> against the slander of Anonymous<\/em>. <\/li>\n
  • After all,\u00a0\u201cWith its portrayal of William Shakespeare as a drunken buffoon who could hardly read<\/a>, let alone write some of the finest poetry in the English language, Roland Emmerich\u2019s Anonymous<\/em> was unlikely to be popular with the Stratford set.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Ditto Joss Whedon\u2019s Much Ado About Nothing<\/em>.<\/a><\/li>\n
  • We imagine Melville fans will be wary of Moby-Dick<\/a><\/em> in space<\/a>, too. <\/li>\n
  • Speaking of Moby-Dick<\/a><\/em> …<\/li>\n
  • Here\u2019s one for purists: Tolkien\u2019s original Hobbit <\/em>illustrations.<\/a><\/a> <\/li>\n
  • A Harold Pinter <\/a>sketch has been rediscovered. <\/li>\n
  • Ditto a forgotten O\u2019Neill one-act<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Protest for tots<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Archimedes\u2019s brain.<\/a> <\/li>\n
  • Tintin\u2019s long shadow<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • Authors\u2019 heavy beards<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cFrom the moment Ron Shaoul took it upon himself\u00a0to investigate the practice of reading on the toilet<\/a>, scouring medical literature and turning up nothing of note as to its public health consequences, the situation became clear that here, on his hands, was a big job.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Writers for the 99 percent<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Booksellers, spies<\/a> … two sides of the same coin!<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A cultural news roundup. Whiting winners have been announced. A Shakespeare organization defends the Bard\u2019s honor against the slander of Anonymous. After all,\u00a0\u201cWith its portrayal of William Shakespeare as a drunken buffoon who could hardly read, let alone write some of the finest poetry in the English language, Roland Emmerich\u2019s Anonymous was unlikely to be […]<\/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":[4620,4611,4618,4619,4616,4083,3341,4615,952,4612,4617,4613,4614,2640,4451,1253,2295],"class_list":["post-22676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin","tag-4620","tag-anonymous","tag-archimdedes","tag-eugene-oneill","tag-harold-pinter","tag-herman-melville","tag-j-r-r-tolkein","tag-joss-whedon","tag-moby-dick","tag-much-ado-about-nothing","tag-protest","tag-roland-emmerich","tag-stratford","tag-the-hobbit","tag-tintin","tag-whiting-awards","tag-william-shakespeare"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nOn the Shelf by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"October 26, 2011 \u2013 A cultural news roundup. 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