{"id":44914,"date":"2013-01-16T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=44914"},"modified":"2019-01-03T17:47:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T22:47:22","slug":"writing-jewish-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing in Jewish, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/books-and-arts\/111888\/the-literary-insecurities-washington-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">literature of Washington, D.\u2009C.<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Ah, the old \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/01\/16\/i_am_named_in_a_terrible_book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I let an author stay in my house and he published ridiculous things about me<\/a>\u201d conundrum.<\/li>\n<li>Children, it seems, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/children-still-prefer-reading-physical-books-finds-scholastic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">like real books<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2013\/01\/philip-roth-mel-brooks-swap-stories-talk-jewish-writers-on-pbs-panel-tca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philip Roth<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t write in Jewish, I write in American.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5959276\/this-entire-beautiful-house-was-built-around-a-giant-three+story+high-bookshelf#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a house<\/a> constructed around an enormous bookshelf.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The literature of Washington, D.\u2009C.? Ah, the old \u201cI let an author stay in my house and he published ridiculous things about me\u201d conundrum. Children, it seems, like real books. Philip Roth:\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t write in Jewish, I write in American.\u201d Here is a house constructed around an enormous bookshelf. &nbsp;<\/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":[9766,9765,149,99,7723,5041],"class_list":["post-44914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-cary-tennis","tag-d-c","tag-news","tag-philip-roth","tag-roundup","tag-washington"],"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>Writing in Jewish, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 16, 2013 \u2013 &nbsp; The literature of Washington, D.\u2009C.? Ah, the old \u201cI let an author stay in my house and he published ridiculous things about me\u201d conundrum.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Writing in Jewish, and Other News by Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"January 16, 2013 \u2013 &nbsp; The literature of Washington, D.\u2009C.? Ah, the old \u201cI let an author stay in my house and he published ridiculous things about me\u201d conundrum.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-01-16T14:30:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-01-03T22:47:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sadie Stein\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9\"},\"headline\":\"Writing in Jewish, and Other News\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-01-16T14:30:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-01-03T22:47:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/\"},\"wordCount\":60,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Cary tennis\",\"D.C.\",\"news\",\"Philip Roth\",\"roundup\",\"Washington\"],\"articleSection\":[\"On the Shelf\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/\",\"name\":\"Writing in Jewish, and Other News by Sadie Stein\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-01-16T14:30:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-01-03T22:47:22+00:00\",\"description\":\"January 16, 2013 \u2013 &nbsp; The literature of Washington, D.\u2009C.? Ah, the old \u201cI let an author stay in my house and he published ridiculous things about me\u201d conundrum.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Writing in Jewish, and Other News\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"description\":\"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"The Paris Review\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png\",\"width\":696,\"height\":696,\"caption\":\"The Paris Review\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9\",\"name\":\"Sadie Stein\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/147299ffa10db51f1ff44a626a9211650a1c11f8fc07d102ab48e63ab3be037b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/147299ffa10db51f1ff44a626a9211650a1c11f8fc07d102ab48e63ab3be037b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Sadie Stein\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/sstein\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Writing in Jewish, and Other News by Sadie Stein","description":"January 16, 2013 \u2013 &nbsp; The literature of Washington, D.\u2009C.? Ah, the old \u201cI let an author stay in my house and he published ridiculous things about me\u201d conundrum.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Writing in Jewish, and Other News by Sadie Stein","og_description":"January 16, 2013 \u2013 &nbsp; The literature of Washington, D.\u2009C.? Ah, the old \u201cI let an author stay in my house and he published ridiculous things about me\u201d conundrum.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/","og_site_name":"The Paris Review","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","article_published_time":"2013-01-16T14:30:59+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-01-03T22:47:22+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":675,"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-1.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Sadie Stein","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@parisreview","twitter_site":"@parisreview","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Sadie Stein"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/"},"author":{"name":"Sadie Stein","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9"},"headline":"Writing in Jewish, and Other News","datePublished":"2013-01-16T14:30:59+00:00","dateModified":"2019-01-03T22:47:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/"},"wordCount":60,"commentCount":1,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"keywords":["Cary tennis","D.C.","news","Philip Roth","roundup","Washington"],"articleSection":["On the Shelf"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/","name":"Writing in Jewish, and Other News by Sadie Stein","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-01-16T14:30:59+00:00","dateModified":"2019-01-03T22:47:22+00:00","description":"January 16, 2013 \u2013 &nbsp; The literature of Washington, D.\u2009C.? Ah, the old \u201cI let an author stay in my house and he published ridiculous things about me\u201d conundrum.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/writing-jewish-and-other-news\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Writing in Jewish, and Other News"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","name":"The Paris Review","description":"The best prose, interviews, poetry, and art. Since 1953.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization","name":"The Paris Review","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tpr-hadada-roundell-logo-square.png","width":696,"height":696,"caption":"The Paris Review"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/","https:\/\/x.com\/parisreview","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/parisreview"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9","name":"Sadie Stein","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/147299ffa10db51f1ff44a626a9211650a1c11f8fc07d102ab48e63ab3be037b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/147299ffa10db51f1ff44a626a9211650a1c11f8fc07d102ab48e63ab3be037b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Sadie Stein"},"url":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/author\/sstein\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44914"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132416,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44914\/revisions\/132416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}