{"id":30255,"date":"2012-04-24T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=30255"},"modified":"2012-04-24T10:52:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:52:28","slug":"world-book-night-shakespeare-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/24\/world-book-night-shakespeare-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Book Night, Shakespeare Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/diary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-30256\" title=\"diary\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/diary-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/diary-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/diary.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Happy birthday, Shakespeare! <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/23\/shakespeare-and-the-city\/?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Talk to us about cities<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/apr\/23\/professionals-work-free-writers-expected\">Are writers exploited? <\/a> <\/li>\n<li>The seventeenth annual Los Angeles Festival of Books took place last weekend.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2012\/apr\/19\/entertainment\/la-et-festival-preview-20120419\">Check out the fantastic lineup<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>A roundup of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookpatrol.net\/2012\/04\/in-stacks-womens-travel-diaries-at-duke.html\">women\u2019s travel diaries<\/a> through the ages. <\/li>\n<li>Busloads of librarians and book-vending dogs! How did you celebrate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/books\/news\/story\/2012-04-23\/world-book-night\/54476188\/1\">World Book Night<\/a>?<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy birthday, Shakespeare! Talk to us about cities. Are writers exploited? The seventeenth annual Los Angeles Festival of Books took place last weekend.\u00a0Check out the fantastic lineup. A roundup of women\u2019s travel diaries through the ages. Busloads of librarians and book-vending dogs! 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