{"id":42942,"date":"2012-12-04T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=42942"},"modified":"2012-12-04T09:12:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T14:12:03","slug":"selling-psalms-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/04\/selling-psalms-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling Psalms, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ewc_14h.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ewc_14h-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ewc_14h\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-42951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ewc_14h-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ewc_14h.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Boston\u2019s Old South Church is considering selling the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/2012\/11\/30\/old-south-church-copley-square-considers-selling-first-book-published-north-america\/mAxkgIIVcPhDChQIHf6BrJ\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Psalm Book<\/a>, thought to be the oldest book published in North America. The money would be used to finance repairs to the 1874 building.<\/li>\n<li>On touching Sylvia Plath\u2019s hair, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinhouse.com\/blog\/20670\/touching-and-melting-nowhere-sylvia-plaths-the-night-dances.html#.ULrY5QymV3Q.facebook\" target=\"_blank\">the Plath Symposium<\/a>, and literary hagiography.<\/li>\n<li>Dispatches from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/pageviews\/2012\/12\/social-media-and-literature-make-friends-at-the-first-twitter-fiction-festival\" target=\"_blank\">first Twitter Fiction Festival<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Managing the challenges of preserving the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ylENx9xvB7w\" target=\"_blank\">Vatican\u2019s treasures<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fathom.info\/latest\/3260\" target=\"_blank\">The emotional life of books<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[tweetbutton]<\/p>\n<p>[facebook_ilike]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston\u2019s Old South Church is considering selling the Bay Psalm Book, thought to be the oldest book published in North America. The money would be used to finance repairs to the 1874 building. On touching Sylvia Plath\u2019s hair, the Plath Symposium, and literary hagiography. Dispatches from the first Twitter Fiction Festival. Managing the challenges of [&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":[9395,17,149,9394,2704,8127],"class_list":["post-42942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-bay-psalm-book","tag-books","tag-news","tag-old-south-church","tag-sylvia-plath","tag-the-vatican"],"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>Selling Psalms, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 4, 2012 \u2013 Boston\u2019s Old South Church is considering selling the Bay Psalm Book, thought to be the oldest book published in North America. 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