{"id":30896,"date":"2012-05-03T10:29:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T14:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=30896"},"modified":"2012-05-03T12:32:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T16:32:32","slug":"beautiful-bookshelves-rule-breaking-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/03\/beautiful-bookshelves-rule-breaking-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Bookshelves, Rule Breaking, and More!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bookshelfnew2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bookshelfnew2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bookshelfnew2\" width=\"509\" height=\"756\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bookshelfnew2.jpg 509w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/bookshelfnew2-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/may\/02\/tehran-international-book-fair-crackdown\">The Tehran International Book Fair<\/a> cracks down on \u201charmful\u201d titles.\n<li>\u201cPoets break all the rules. When other writers take their photos outdoors, poets stay inside. They\u2019re the only ones who<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hungermtn.org\/workshopping-the-author-photo\/\"> wear hats or leather jackets with nothing underneath<\/a>.\u201d\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/5\/2\/2993142\/target-stop-carrying-amazon-kindle-conflict-of-interest\">Target will no longer be in the Kindle business<\/a>. (A sentence that would have mystified our forebears.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/30\/the-pleasures-and-perils-of-the-passive\/?ref=opinion\">\u201cThe passive voice<\/a> remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason.\u201d\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/alex-johnson\/bookshelves-photos_b_1469112.html?ref=books#927285\">A gallery of beautiful bookshelves<\/a>.<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tehran International Book Fair cracks down on \u201charmful\u201d titles. \u201cPoets break all the rules. When other writers take their photos outdoors, poets stay inside. They\u2019re the only ones who wear hats or leather jackets with nothing underneath.\u201d Target will no longer be in the Kindle business. (A sentence that would have mystified our forebears.) 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