{"id":33370,"date":"2012-06-13T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=33370"},"modified":"2019-05-07T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T20:16:13","slug":"50-shades-of-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/13\/50-shades-of-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Shades of Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/PWxyz\/2012\/06\/11\/two-books-same-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Familiar-looking cover art<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Bret Easton Ellis wants you to know he is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/fifty-shades-of-grey-bret-easton-ellis-335866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not joking<\/a> about his desire to adapt <em>50\u00a0Shades of Grey<\/em> for the screen.<\/li>\n<li>(Someone\u2019s already called dibs on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/would-you-buy-50-shades-of-grey-lingerie_b52898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lingerie<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>How <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/jun\/12\/fifty-shades-grey-digested-screenplay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said screenplay<\/a> might read.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of NSFW: Can you, like Martin Amis, tell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/quiz\/2012\/jun\/12\/quiz-sex-scenes-man-woman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which sex wrote which sex scene<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelf-awareness.com\/issue.html?issue=1758#m16440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jennifer Benka<\/a> is the new executive director of the Academy of American Poets.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/entertainment\/books\/view\/20120611ray_bradburys_biographer_wants_a_museum_in_waukegan_ill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ray Bradbury Museum<\/a>? Maybe &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flavorwire.com\/298087\/the-childhood-homes-of-20-famous-authors#1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">childhood homes of twenty famous authors<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Familiar-looking cover art. Bret Easton Ellis wants you to know he is not joking about his desire to adapt 50\u00a0Shades of Grey for the screen. (Someone\u2019s already called dibs on lingerie.) How said screenplay might read. Speaking of NSFW: Can you, like Martin Amis, tell which sex wrote which sex scene? 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