{"id":25126,"date":"2012-01-04T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=25126"},"modified":"2012-01-04T12:15:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:15:33","slug":"on-the-shelf-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/on-the-shelf-29\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mooore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25135\" title=\"Moore.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/mooore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a>A cultural news roundup.<\/em><\/p>\n<li>RIP\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2012\/01\/josef-akvorecka-on-the-nazis-controlfreak-hatred-of-jazz\/250837\/\">Josef Skvorecky<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thornwillow.com\/site\/content\/less-ambitious-book-titles#.TwRi-KKSoNB.facebook\">The Adequate Gatsby<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/12\/29\/literary-characters-grown-up_n_1174658.html?ref=books\">Jay Caulfield<\/a>? <\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2012\/01\/james-franco-sells-his-first-novel-to-amazon-publishing\/\">Actors Anonymous<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The strange mystery of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/entertainment\/2012\/01\/new-york-times-book-critic-miciko-kaktuani-has-started-fake-twitter-war\/46845\/\">Michiko Kakutani\u2019s Twitter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The strange experience of <a href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/post\/15239079661\/mentors-jeffrey-kindley-on-marianne-moore\">eating with Marianne Moore<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBy two o\u2019clock on New Year\u2019s Day in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/jan\/03\/charles-disckens-bicentennial-enough-already\">Dickens bicentennial year<\/a>, I already found myself wishing that either he or I had never been born.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/19\/toward-a-north-korea-reading-list\/\">Reading North Korea<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21541719\">Martin Luther online.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203893404577098343417771160.html\">endless malleability of digital writing<\/a> promises to overturn a whole lot of our assumptions about publishing.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.finebooksmagazine.com\/fine_books_blog\/2012\/01\/the-worlds-most-expensive-book-at-auction.phtml\">The world\u2019s most expensive book<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/jan\/03\/bible-2011-bestseller-norway\">good year<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bokogsamfunn.no\/\">Good Book<\/a>. <\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cultural news roundup. 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The strange experience of eating with Marianne Moore. \u201cBy two o\u2019clock on New Year\u2019s Day in this Dickens bicentennial year, I already found myself wishing that either he or I had never been born.\u201d Reading [&hellip;]<\/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":[419],"tags":[1203,539,5506,2006,5507,5504,191,5505,659],"class_list":["post-25126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-charles-dickens","tag-james-franco","tag-josef-skvorecky","tag-marianne-moore","tag-martin-luther","tag-michiko-kakutani","tag-north-korea","tag-the-bible","tag-the-great-gatsby"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>On the Shelf by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 4, 2012 \u2013 A cultural news roundup. 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