{"id":37383,"date":"2012-08-21T09:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T13:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=37383"},"modified":"2012-08-21T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T14:50:30","slug":"vintage-ads-new-appeals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/21\/vintage-ads-new-appeals\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Ads, New Appeals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aliceinwonderlandsculpture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aliceinwonderlandsculpture.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"aliceinwonderlandsculpture\" width=\"570\" height=\"571\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aliceinwonderlandsculpture.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aliceinwonderlandsculpture-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/aliceinwonderlandsculpture-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Book sculptures by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookspaperscissors.com\/post\/24465888534\/charlottes-web-alice-in-wonderland-and-the\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Campbell<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cI\u2019d been accustomed to write about the old vanished world with its homes and its family life and its comparative peace. All of that went. And though I can think about it I cannot put it into fiction form.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/08\/em_forster_why_i_stopped_writing_novels_.html\" target=\"_blank\">A 1958 film of E. M. Forster<\/a> in which the author talks about why he stopped writing novels.<\/li>\n<li>We have a soft spot for the READ posters, peopled with unlikely celebrities, found in the children\u2019s room of every eighties library, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demco.com\/goto?BLK101114&amp;CLK0000\" target=\"_blank\">these <\/a>are arguably more attractive! <\/li>\n<li>\u201cObviously, one must not take this article\u2019s title too literally. Nor  should it be read as anything more or anything less than purely  subjective musings in no particular order.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinecollegecourses.com\/2011\/05\/22\/50-books-that-will-make-you-a-better-writer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fifty Books That Will Make You a Better Writer<\/a>.\n<li>\u201cA Masterpiece Has Happened!\u201d (Can a masterpiece happen? We defer to the publishers of <em>Of Mice and Men<\/em>.) A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flavorwire.com\/319968\/a-collection-of-original-vintage-advertisements-for-classic-books#6\" target=\"_blank\">list of classic book ads<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>[tweetbutton]<\/p>\n<p>[facebook_ilike]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book sculptures by Kelly Campbell. \u201cI\u2019d been accustomed to write about the old vanished world with its homes and its family life and its comparative peace. All of that went. And though I can think about it I cannot put it into fiction form.\u201d A 1958 film of E. M. Forster in which the author [&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":[35,8470,8469,149,20543,7723],"class_list":["post-37383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-art","tag-kelly-campbell","tag-links","tag-news","tag-on-the-shelf","tag-roundup"],"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>Vintage Ads, New Appeals by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 21, 2012 \u2013 Book sculptures by Kelly Campbell. \u201cI\u2019d been accustomed to write about the old vanished world with its homes and its family life and its comparative\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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