{"id":42304,"date":"2012-11-26T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=42304"},"modified":"2012-11-26T10:59:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T15:59:47","slug":"music-to-write-by-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/music-to-write-by-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Music to Write By, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tw_headphones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tw_headphones-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tw_headphones\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-42307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tw_headphones-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tw_headphones.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>The six-hour duration may be aspirational, but you have to love this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/best-writing-music-of-2012_b61112\" target=\"_blank\">writing sound track<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANNELAMOTT\/status\/272887065153253377\" target=\"_blank\">Ann Lamott tweets<\/a> that she will stake her reputation on the varied titles mention in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/25\/books\/review\/anne-lamott-by-the-book.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">her <em>New York Times<\/em> \u201cBy the Book\u201d column<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And speaking of mutual admiration: authors choose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/nov\/23\/books-of-the-year-2012-authors-favourites\" target=\"_blank\">their favorite books of 2012<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe first hard-boiled female protagonists were written by men.\u201d A brief history of <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110709015731\/http:\/\/www.detnovel.com\/EarlyFemaleAuthors.html\" target=\"_blank\">tough dames<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>\u201cThose poor scribes&thinsp;&hellip;&thinsp;had their work cut out for them.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/efba61be-3265-11e2-916a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2DKpXM970\" target=\"_blank\">John Banville on the Book of Kells<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[tweetbutton]<\/p>\n<p>[facebook_ilike]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The six-hour duration may be aspirational, but you have to love this writing sound track. 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