{"id":47064,"date":"2013-02-20T09:35:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=47064"},"modified":"2013-02-20T12:13:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T17:13:47","slug":"meet-your-literary-hero-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/20\/meet-your-literary-hero-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Your Literary Hero, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/images.jpg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"120\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-47077\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>#IWishICouldMeet, the popular Twitter hash tag, gets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/books\/jacketcopy\/la-et-jc-i-wish-i-could-meet-the-literary-edition-20130219,0,5459219.story?track=rss&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;dlvrit=717819\" target=\"_blank\">a literary twist<\/a> as readers tell the <em>LA Times\u00a0<\/em>which characters and authors they would love to meet #IRL. (And for the record, #ReuvenMalter.)<\/li>\n<li>Paul Muldoon&mdash;poet, professor, Poetry Society <em>macher<\/em>, <em>New Yorker<\/em> editor, librettist, and Rackett guitarist&mdash;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/02\/19\/paul-muldoon-s-book-bag-five-best-rock-n-roll-books.html\" target=\"_blank\">lists his favorite rock books<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>This list of<a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/368533\/the-best-selling-books-in-10-countries-around-the-world\" target=\"_blank\"> best sellers from around the world<\/a> is fascinating and shaming. <\/li>\n<li>In fact, next, <a href=\"http:\/\/kahnscorner.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/100-years-94-books.html\" target=\"_blank\">the blogger reading one hundred years of best sellers<\/a> might want to tackle the Indonesian list.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe second half of the nineteenth century saw the rise of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/19\/united-amateur-press-association\/\" target=\"_blank\"> amateur press associations<\/a> (ASAs)&mdash;small groups of writers, often without professional training, who would produce individual articles, pamphlets, or magazines mailed to all other members of the association; in other words, a progenitor of subscription-based blogging, and yet another example of primitive versions of modern social media.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#IWishICouldMeet, the popular Twitter hash tag, gets a literary twist as readers tell the LA Times\u00a0which characters and authors they would love to meet #IRL. 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