{"id":46021,"date":"2013-02-01T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=46021"},"modified":"2013-02-01T11:10:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T16:10:55","slug":"nabokov-museum-vandalized-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/01\/nabokov-museum-vandalized-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Nabokov Museum Vandalized, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Lolita.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Lolita.jpeg\" alt=\"Lolita\" width=\"177\" height=\"285\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-46024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>\u201cThe common core state standards, a set of math and English goals agreed upon by forty-five states and now being implemented, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323644904578272151551627948.html?mod=djemITP_h\" target=\"_blank\">sends cursive the way of the quill pen<\/a>, while requiring instead that students be proficient in keyboarding by fourth grade.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Libraries have gone raucous! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/01\/31\/bring_back_shushing_librarians\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bring back the <em>shush<\/em><\/a>!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/nabokov-museum-vandalized\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Nabokov Museum has been vandalized<\/a> by the so-called\u00a0St. Petersburg Cossacks. Why? For\u00a0\u201cpromoting pedophilia.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bookriot.com\/2013\/01\/29\/dead-writers-perfume\/\" target=\"_blank\">Perfumes inspired by dead writers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In the UK, doctors will soon be allowed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2013\/jan\/31\/gps-prescribe-self-help-books\" target=\"_blank\">prescribe books<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe common core state standards, a set of math and English goals agreed upon by forty-five states and now being implemented, sends cursive the way of the quill pen, while requiring instead that students be proficient in keyboarding by fourth grade.\u201d Libraries have gone raucous! Bring back the shush! 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