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\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

  • Terrible beach reads<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • At UVA, rare-book school<\/a> <\/a>is in session. <\/li>\n
  • Journalist (and former Paris Review<\/em> editor) Philip Gourevitch<\/a> on editing, writing, and his work on genocide.<\/li>\n
  • Famous writers and their tattoos<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • Sergei Dovlatov<\/a> featured on Russian radio. (In translation!)<\/li>\n
  • The sad fate of Dawn Powell\u2019s journals<\/a>. <\/li>\n

     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Terrible beach reads. At UVA, rare-book school is in session. Journalist (and former Paris Review editor) Philip Gourevitch on editing, writing, and his work on genocide. Famous writers and their tattoos. Sergei Dovlatov featured on Russian radio. (In translation!) The sad fate of Dawn Powell\u2019s journals.  <\/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":[8003,149,20543,1787,8252,7723,5802,8251],"class_list":["post-36029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-beach-reads","tag-news","tag-on-the-shelf","tag-philip-gourevitch","tag-rare-books","tag-roundup","tag-sergei-dovlatov","tag-uva"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nRare Books, Sharks, and Ink by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 25, 2012 \u2013 Terrible beach reads. 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