{"id":31970,"date":"2012-05-21T08:08:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T12:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=31970"},"modified":"2012-05-21T13:50:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T17:50:56","slug":"cuckolds-and-commutes-happy-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/21\/cuckolds-and-commutes-happy-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuckolds and Commutes: Happy Monday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/TrainWriters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/TrainWriters-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"TrainWriters\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/TrainWriters-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/TrainWriters.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/19\/nyregion\/ny-writers-coalition-offers-an-opportunity-on-a-subway-car.html\">This writers\u2019 workshop<\/a> is inspired by the 7-train commute.\n<li>Feel-good alert! A good samaritan bails out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/05\/20\/153132088\/donor-resurrects-endangered-bookmobile?ft=1&#038;f=1032\">an endangered Vermont bookmobile<\/a>.\n<li>One affair, two sides of the story: when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/pageviews\/2012\/05\/one-affair-two-novels-john-le-carr\u00e9-cuckolded-scottish-author-and-they-both-wrote-\">both cuckold and cad <\/a>give their versions, and, by the way, the latter is John le Carr\u00e9.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/05\/18\/the-marriage-plot-movie_n_1527049.html?ref=books\"><em>The Marriage Plot<\/em>, coming to a multiplex near you<\/a>. 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