{"id":33010,"date":"2012-06-08T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=33010"},"modified":"2012-06-11T18:11:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T22:11:11","slug":"selling-banning-and-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/08\/selling-banning-and-walking\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling, Banning, and Walking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Barry-Unsworth-008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33011\" title=\"Barry Unsworth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Barry-Unsworth-008-e1339164414735.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Barry-Unsworth-008-e1339164414735.jpg 327w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Barry-Unsworth-008-e1339164414735-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/jun\/08\/barry-unsworth-booker-prizewinner-dies?newsfeed=true\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Unsworth <\/a>has died at eighty-one.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/under-god\/post\/sister-farleys-revenge-want-to-popularize-a-book-ban-it\/2012\/06\/06\/gJQAihARJV_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Catholic Church denounces a book<\/a>; it becomes a best seller. <\/li>\n<li>(Almost as effective as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/reese-witherspoon-oprah-winfrey-wild-book-club-334273\" target=\"_blank\">Oprah<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.time.com\/2012\/06\/06\/a-book-lovers-guide-to-reading-and-walking-at-the-same-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lev Grossman<\/a> teaches us how to read and walk simultaneously. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vol1brooklyn.com\/2012\/06\/07\/a-report-from-the-comedy-of-noir\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Comedy of Noir.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Where things stand:<a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2012\/06\/where-things-stand\/\" target=\"_blank\"> the Rumpus<\/a> explores racial bias in the world of books. <\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist Barry Unsworth has died at eighty-one. The Catholic Church denounces a book; it becomes a best seller. (Almost as effective as Oprah.) Lev Grossman teaches us how to read and walk simultaneously. \u201cThe Comedy of Noir.\u201d Where things stand: the Rumpus explores racial bias in the world of books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[7812,7808,6146,149,20543,7727,7809,7723,7811,7810],"class_list":["post-33010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-barry-unsworth","tag-catholic-church","tag-lev-grossman","tag-news","tag-on-the-shelf","tag-oprah-winfrey","tag-oprahs-book-club","tag-roundup","tag-the-rumpus","tag-vol-1-brooklyn"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Selling, Banning, and Walking by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 8, 2012 \u2013 Novelist Barry Unsworth has died at eighty-one. 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