{"id":24788,"date":"2011-12-16T12:30:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=24788"},"modified":"2011-12-16T11:49:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T16:49:21","slug":"bah-humbug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/bah-humbug\/","title":{"rendered":"Bah, Humbug!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dickens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24794\" title=\"dickens\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dickens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Stop by Housing Works Bookstore Cafe this Sunday afternoon to hear Emma Straub, Eileen Myles, Kurt Andersen, Joshua Cohen, Ira Glass, John Hodgman, and many others, including our own Lorin Stein, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.housingworks.org\/events\/detail\/what-the-dickens-second-annual-a-christmas-carol-marathon\">second annual marathon reading of <em>A Christmas Carol<\/em><\/a>. (Spoiler alert: Lorin  reads the part where Scrooge renounces his Scroogey ways.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong> Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, 126 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012.<br \/><strong>When:<\/strong> Sunday, December 18, 1 P.M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop by Housing Works Bookstore Cafe this Sunday afternoon to hear Emma Straub, Eileen Myles, Kurt Andersen, Joshua Cohen, Ira Glass, John Hodgman, and many others, including our own Lorin Stein, in the second annual marathon reading of A Christmas Carol. 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