{"id":46863,"date":"2013-02-15T09:30:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T14:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=46863"},"modified":"2013-03-06T10:03:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T15:03:35","slug":"america-in-love-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/15\/america-in-love-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"America in Love, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/heart-map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/heart-map-300x204.png\" alt=\"heart map\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/heart-map-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/heart-map.png 371w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Amazon.com has assigned <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/feature.html\/?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;docId=1000990781&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=theparrev0f-20\" target=\"_blank\">a love story to every state<\/a>. As a New Yorker, I find myself ambivalent about the choice of <em>The Age of Innocence<\/em>. Although Arkansas, arguably, has more of a bone to pick.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWife wanted: intelligent, beautiful, 18 to 25, broad-minded, sensitive, affectionate. For accomplished artist and exciting life. NYR box 1432.\u201d On America\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/02\/09\/171416212\/literary-types-find-love-in-the-new-york-review-of-books\" target=\"_blank\">most erudite personals<\/a>. (Yes, that was the first.)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/2013\/03\/as-many-books-as-possible-short-of-bankruptcy\" target=\"_blank\">Happy one hundred<\/a>, Harvard University Press.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Comic book vendors around the nation are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/02\/14\/texas-comic-book-store-owner-boycott-dc-comics-anti-gay-author_n_2687811.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003&amp;ir=Books\" target=\"_blank\">boycotting<\/a> D.&thinsp;C. Comics following the announcement that the company has asked\u00a0Orson Scott Card to write part of an upcoming <em>Superman<\/em>. Card is an outspoken anti-gay advocate.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, a plan to erect a plaque to Enid Blyton in her home town is tearing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/booknews\/9870065\/Town-torn-over-celebrations-of-Enid-Blytons-racist-work.html\" target=\"_blank\">Beaconsfield, Bucks asunder<\/a>: some claim it would be wrong to celebrate an authors whose work is now deemed racist and sexist.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com has assigned a love story to every state. As a New Yorker, I find myself ambivalent about the choice of The Age of Innocence. Although Arkansas, arguably, has more of a bone to pick. \u201cWife wanted: intelligent, beautiful, 18 to 25, broad-minded, sensitive, affectionate. For accomplished artist and exciting life. NYR box 1432.\u201d On [&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":[10067,7005,5568,10064,758,149,10065,7723,10066],"class_list":["post-46863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-d-c-comics","tag-edith-wharton","tag-enid-blyton","tag-harvard-university-press","tag-new-york-review-of-books","tag-news","tag-orson-scott-card","tag-roundup","tag-superman"],"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>America in Love, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 15, 2013 \u2013 Amazon.com has assigned a love story to every state. 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