{"id":40051,"date":"2012-10-16T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=40051"},"modified":"2012-10-16T12:04:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T16:04:45","slug":"the-long-and-short-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/16\/the-long-and-short-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long and Short of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/authors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/authors-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"authors\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-40052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/authors-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/authors.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Adorable,<a href=\"http:\/\/mattiasa.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/authors.html\" target=\"_blank\"> literal interpretations of author names<\/a> by illustrator Mattias Adolfsson. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cI know I said that if I lived to 100 I&#8217;d not regret what happened last night. But I woke up this morning and a century had passed. Sorry.\u201d Geoff Dyer, Jackie Collins, A. M. Homes, and others <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/oct\/12\/twitter-fiction-140-character-novels\" target=\"_blank\">attempt the 140-character novel<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Speaking of brevity, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/booknews\/9608935\/Ian-McEwan-claims-the-novella-is-better-than-the-novel.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ian McEwan<\/a> declares that the novella is the superior written form because \u201cyou can hold the whole thing structurally in your mind at once.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-19922863#\" target=\"_blank\">Qin Dynasty<\/a> book burnings. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/popwatch.ew.com\/2012\/10\/11\/patti-smith-kristen-stewart-rob-pattinson-just-kids-film\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patti Smith<\/a>: \u201cI remember the very first time I saw Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson together, when they were younger, and I thought, Those two kids could have easily played us [in <em>Just Kids<\/em>] when they were first starting. There\u2019s something in his eyes. And Robert [Mapplethorpe] was also a bit shy, and a bit stoic. Kristen has a very special quality. She\u2019s not conventionally beautiful, but very charismatic.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[tweetbutton]<\/p>\n<p>[facebook_ilike]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adorable, literal interpretations of author names by illustrator Mattias Adolfsson. \u201cI know I said that if I lived to 100 I&#8217;d not regret what happened last night. But I woke up this morning and a century had passed. Sorry.\u201d Geoff Dyer, Jackie Collins, A. M. Homes, and others attempt the 140-character novel. 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