{"id":48030,"date":"2013-03-08T09:38:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T14:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=48030"},"modified":"2013-03-08T10:21:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T15:21:01","slug":"built-of-books-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/08\/built-of-books-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Built of Books, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bookarchitecture02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bookarchitecture02.jpg\" alt=\"bookarchitecture02\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bookarchitecture02.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bookarchitecture02-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Dutch artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designboom.com\/art\/built-of-books-by-frank-halmans\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Halmans<\/a> makes book houses, in a series called <em>Built of Books<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/breaking\/2013\/0304\/breaking58.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pablo Neruda is going to be exhumed<\/a>. Why? \u201cManuel Araya, who was Neruda&#8217;s chauffer during the sick writer&#8217;s last few months, says agents of the dictatorship took advantage of his ailment to inject poison into his stomach while he was bedridden at the Santa Maria clinic in Santiago.\u201d Stand by.   <\/li>\n<li>Simon Akam: \u201cI hate <em>Bridezillas<\/em> for one simple reason: <em>bride<\/em> does not rhyme with <em>god<\/em>. 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