{"id":22961,"date":"2011-11-03T10:51:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T14:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=22961"},"modified":"2011-11-03T10:52:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T14:52:12","slug":"st-mark%e2%80%99s-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/03\/st-mark%e2%80%99s-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Mark\u2019s Saved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/marks1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22971\" title=\"St. Mark\u2019s.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/marks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a>Great news in this morning\u2019s <em>Observer<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2011\/11\/st-marks-bookshop-spared-rental-doom\/\">Cooper Union has agreed to give St. Mark\u2019s Bookshop a break on the rent<\/a>, and the store will remain open.\u00a0Many thanks to our readers who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/05\/saving-st-marks\/\">helped save St. Mark\u2019s<\/a>, whether by signing the petition or just by picking up a copy of the <em>Review<\/em>. (The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/06\/help-us-support-st-mark%e2%80%99s\/\">save\u2013St. Mark\u2019s discount<\/a> will remain in effect until our winter issue appears.)<\/p>\n<p>And three cheers for Cooper Union!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news in this morning\u2019s Observer: Cooper Union has agreed to give St. Mark\u2019s Bookshop a break on the rent, and the store will remain open.\u00a0Many thanks to our readers who helped save St. Mark\u2019s, whether by signing the petition or just by picking up a copy of the Review. 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