{"id":38842,"date":"2012-09-20T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=38842"},"modified":"2012-09-20T12:31:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T16:31:15","slug":"fake-books-fictional-detectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/20\/fake-books-fictional-detectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Books, Fictional Detectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Charles_Dickens_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Charles_Dickens_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Charles_Dickens_3\" width=\"299\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38850\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>\u201cWould anyone go and &#8216;consult&#8217; him? One feels not.\u201d In a rediscovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/sep\/18\/agatha-christie-essay-published-first-time\" target=\"_blank\">Agatha Christie document<\/a>, the author admits to a love-hate relationship with her creation, the debonair Belgian detective Poirot, and critiques other mystery writers. <\/li>\n<li>The Marquis de Sade wanted even <em>more<\/em> days of Sodom? <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/PWxyz\/2012\/09\/13\/9-unfinished-novels-by-great-writers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unfinished novels of great writers<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cWanting for some unknown reason to fill a space in his study with a selection of false books\u2014complete with witty names he thought up himself\u2014[Dickens]\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/25852\/25852-h\/25852-h.htm#Page_266\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> to a bookbinder with a list of &#8216;imitation book-backs&#8217; to be created specially for his bookshelf.\u201d Now, the New York Public Library has re-created several of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flavorwire.com\/329815\/charles-dickens-library-of-fake-books\" target=\"_blank\">fake books<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>And speaking of the NYPL! Thanks to a donation, the library has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/metropolis\/2012\/09\/19\/new-york-public-library-backs-off-plan-to-move-millions-of-books\/?mod=e2tw\">reconsidered its controversial plan<\/a> to relocate many of its books. <\/li>\n<p>[tweetbutton]<\/p>\n<p>[facebook_ilike]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWould anyone go and &#8216;consult&#8217; him? One feels not.\u201d In a rediscovered Agatha Christie document, the author admits to a love-hate relationship with her creation, the debonair Belgian detective Poirot, and critiques other mystery writers. The Marquis de Sade wanted even more days of Sodom? Unfinished novels of great writers. \u201cWanting for some unknown reason [&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":[6567,1203,6626,892,149,104,8687,7723],"class_list":["post-38842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-agatha-christie","tag-charles-dickens","tag-finance","tag-goethe","tag-news","tag-nypl","tag-poirot","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>Fake Books, Fictional Detectives by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 20, 2012 \u2013 \u201cWould anyone go and &#8216;consult&#8217; him? 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