{"id":45047,"date":"2013-01-18T09:46:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T14:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=45047"},"modified":"2019-01-03T17:55:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T22:55:03","slug":"the-netherfield-ball-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/18\/the-netherfield-ball-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Netherfield Ball, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In honor of <em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em>\u2019s two hundredth anniversary, the BBC is re-creating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/books\/news\/bbc-to-recreate-netherfield-ball-for-200th-anniversary-of-pride-and-prejudice-8453439.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Netherfield Ball<\/a> at Chawton House, Hampshire. The unfortunately named\u00a0<em>Pride and Prejudice: Having A Ball at Easter<\/em>, which will air on BBC 2, is for some reason ninety minutes long, and we would like an invitation.<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2013\/01\/a-50-year-visual-history-of-sylvia-plaths-the-bell-jar\/267227\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Bell Jar<\/a><\/em>, meanwhile, is a spring chicken at fifty.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2013\/jan\/17\/philip-roth-picks-his-best-novels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philip Roth<\/a> disagrees with most readers as to which of his novels are the best.<\/li>\n<li>What is the obsession with ranking things? May we rephrase? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/travel-leisure\/americas-best-bookstores_b_2435016.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003&amp;ir=Books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a> are <em>a few<\/em> of America\u2019s best bookstores.<\/li>\n<li>If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.full-stop.net\/2013\/01\/15\/blog\/robert-fay\/t-s-eliot-employee-of-the-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mr. Eliot<\/a> had to have a day job, why is it that writers and poets today are so cagey about what they do to pay the bills? Or, as someone at a Williamsburg party once put it, \u201cWhat do you do\u2014<em>not<\/em> for money?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Pride and Prejudice\u2019s two hundredth anniversary, the BBC is re-creating the Netherfield Ball at Chawton House, Hampshire. The unfortunately named\u00a0Pride and Prejudice: Having A Ball at Easter, which will air on BBC 2, is for some reason ninety minutes long, and we would like an invitation. 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