{"id":29160,"date":"2012-04-09T11:38:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=29160"},"modified":"2019-01-15T11:15:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T16:15:36","slug":"smokable-songbooks-controversial-vodka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/09\/smokable-songbooks-controversial-vodka\/","title":{"rendered":"Smokable Songbooks, Controversial Vodka"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Lindsay Gibbs\u2019s <em>Titanic: The Tennis Story<\/em> recounts how tennis players and Titanic passengers Dick Williams and Karl Behr met on a rescue ship and went on to become Davis Cup partners\u2014as historical fiction. Unfortunately, the subjects\u2019 descendants <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/pagesix\/sinking_feeling_for_titanic_kin_lvfkzIwpGJHemendfxhVfO?utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_content=Page%20Six\">aren\u2019t thrilled<\/a> about the novel, particularly by the fact that the launch party will be sponsored by Iceberg Vodka. The words <em>in poor taste<\/em> were bandied.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/popcrush.com\/snoop-dogg-smokable-songbook\/\">Snoop Dogg has released a smokable book<\/a>. That is all.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe first time I went to [the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/apr\/09\/eastercon-sf-fantasy-convention\">British National Science Fiction Convention<\/a>], all I could see was a sea of white, male faces &#8230; I found it very disheartening, and I knew I could either go away and never go to another con or try to do something about it.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>After writing a poem critical of Israel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/diplomacy-defense\/german-minister-israel-s-reaction-to-grass-criticism-exaggerated-1.423417\">G\u00fcnter Grass<\/a> has been banned by that country\u2019s Interior Minister.<\/li>\n<li>In honor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/08\/sports\/baseball\/breslin-chronicler-of-62-mets-recalls-their-appeal.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Mets\u2019 fiftieth<\/a>, you can get e-versions of Jimmy Breslin\u2019s Queens-centric classics.<\/li>\n<li>In honor of the Mets\u2019 sweep, you can read<em> The Paris Review<\/em> interview with die-hard Mets fan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/3773\/the-art-of-fiction-no-60-p-g-wodehouse\">P. 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