{"id":25882,"date":"2012-01-25T13:30:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=25882"},"modified":"2012-01-24T20:02:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T01:02:36","slug":"on-the-shelf-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/on-the-shelf-32\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/dickens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25893\" title=\"Charles Dickens.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/dickens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"437\" \/><\/a>A cultural news roundup.<\/em><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/23\/world\/asia\/doubt-cast-on-death-threat-that-kept-rushdie-from-festival.html?_r=1&amp;ref=booksandliterature\">Who threatened Rushdie?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The author takes his critics\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/SalmanRushdie\/status\/160432223915474944\">to Twitter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20120118-714974.html\">victory<\/a> for publishers.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt was only when I read his article on wallpaper that I realised a hitherto unappreciated aspect of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/jan\/24\/charles-dickens-world-home-interiors\">Charles Dickens<\/a>: his interest in interior d\u00e9cor.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Broadway will <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/24\/without-money-in-place-rebecca-postpones-broadway-opening-until-next-season\/\">return to Manderley<\/a> &#8230; next year. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cPeople<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/article\/243264\"> who read poetry <\/a>are the unsung customer base for independent bookstores.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/22\/nyregion\/missed-connections-poetry-on-craigslist-under-the-influence.html?ref=booksandliterature\">The poetry of Craigslist<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2012\/01\/sunday-rumpus-fiction-ten-reasons-not-to-sleep-with-a-poet\/\">Ten reasons not to sleep with a poet<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Cormac McCarthy did not, in fact, have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/cormac-mccarthy-did-not-join-twitter_b45838\">140-character affair <\/a>with Margaret Atwood. <\/li>\n<li>A sad Sunday for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/21\/sports\/football\/lawrence-ferlinghetti-revives-his-love-of-the-49ers-at-92.html?ref=booksandliterature\">Lawrence Ferlinghetti<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Gluttony-Goes-Viral\/130285\/\">Internet as an image of gluttony<\/a>: \u201cA great groaning table, creaking under bottomless platters of food and pitchers of drink, and we in our chairs, too exhausted to stand, mouths too numb to taste much, but with just enough energy to reach for more.\u201d <\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cultural news roundup. 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