{"id":42049,"date":"2012-11-19T09:15:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T14:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=42049"},"modified":"2013-04-22T16:50:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T20:50:26","slug":"beautiful-books-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/19\/beautiful-books-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Books, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  • Stationer Mr. Boddington\u2019s Studio does a series of whimsical Penguin Classics covers<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • Raymond Carver\u2019s OkCupid profile<\/a>, as edited by Gordon Lish. <\/li>\n
  • \u201cOn the Kindle, each screen shot floats in space, isolated from the previous or subsequent ones, an effect that left my memory of the book weirdly nebulous.\u201d The challenges of reviewing on the Kindle<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Five books on anxiety<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • \u201cMr. Roth hasn\u2019t given up writing entirely<\/a>. He is collaborating on a novella, via e-mail, with the 8-year-old daughter of a former girlfriend.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Stationer Mr. Boddington\u2019s Studio does a series of whimsical Penguin Classics covers. Raymond Carver\u2019s OkCupid profile, as edited by Gordon Lish. \u201cOn the Kindle, each screen shot floats in space, isolated from the previous or subsequent ones, an effect that left my memory of the book weirdly nebulous.\u201d The challenges of reviewing on the Kindle. […]<\/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":[7009,2282,1244,2784,9248,9247,99,263],"class_list":["post-42049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-anxiety","tag-gordon-lish","tag-kindle","tag-mcsweeneys","tag-mr-boddingtons-studio","tag-penguin-classics","tag-philip-roth","tag-raymond-carver"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBeautiful Books, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 19, 2012 \u2013 Stationer Mr. Boddington\u2019s Studio does a series of whimsical Penguin Classics covers. 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