{"id":35778,"date":"2012-07-23T09:23:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T13:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=35778"},"modified":"2012-07-23T09:23:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T13:23:24","slug":"create-your-own-genie-listen-to-beckett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/23\/create-your-own-genie-listen-to-beckett\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Your Own Genie; Listen to Beckett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/genie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/genie.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"genie\" width=\"600\" height=\"255\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/genie.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/genie-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>The Cygnus Ensemble is presenting three original musical pieces<a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/22\/new-music-inspired-by-beckett-plays\/\" target=\"_blank\"> to accompany Samuel Beckett plays<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/mind-your-language\/2012\/jul\/22\/mind-your-language-asterisks-swearwords\" target=\"_blank\">Omitting letters can confuse<\/a>. How is the poor reader expected to differentiate between b******* and b*******?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/publications\/the-truth-about-human-nature\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Swift<\/a> and the question of truth. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cE-books appear to be doing for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2012\/07\/22\/fifty-shades-of-christian-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">religious books<\/a> what they did for erotica.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Happy (belated) birthday to scholar, teacher, and Norton Anthology founder \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-arts-and-culture\/books\/105843\/the-last-critic-turns-100\" target=\"_blank\">M. H. Abrams<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/create-a-genie-win-100-local-bookstore-gift-certificate_b54738\" target=\"_blank\">Create your own genie<\/a> to win a bookstore gift certificate. <\/li>\n<p>[tweetbutton]<\/p>\n<p>[facebook_ilike]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cygnus Ensemble is presenting three original musical pieces to accompany Samuel Beckett plays. \u201cOmitting letters can confuse. How is the poor reader expected to differentiate between b******* and b*******?\u201d Jonathan Swift and the question of truth. \u201cE-books appear to be doing for religious books what they did for erotica.\u201d Happy (belated) birthday to scholar, [&hellip;]<\/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":[7097,8201,2634,8200,149,1786,7723,4429],"class_list":["post-35778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-ebooks","tag-genii","tag-jonathan-swift","tag-m-h-abrams","tag-news","tag-religion","tag-roundup","tag-samuel-beckett"],"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>Create Your Own Genie; Listen to Beckett by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 23, 2012 \u2013 The Cygnus Ensemble is presenting three original musical pieces to accompany Samuel Beckett plays. \u201cOmitting letters can confuse. 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