{"id":48456,"date":"2013-03-15T09:56:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T13:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=48456"},"modified":"2013-03-15T09:59:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T13:59:45","slug":"chicken-poetry-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/15\/chicken-poetry-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Poetry, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Sorted-BOoks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Sorted-BOoks.jpg\" alt=\"Sorted-BOoks\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48470\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/17\/books\/review\/sheryl-sandberg-by-the-book.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sheryl Sandberg<\/a>: \u201cI probably shouldn\u2019t admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps this explains why\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelf-awareness.com\/issue.html?issue=1948#m19297\" target=\"_blank\">January bookstore sales<\/a> were up 5.5 percent ($2.1 billion)!<\/li>\n<li>KFC is recovering from a Chinese chicken scandal with a Twitter poetry contest.\u00a0\u201cKFC kicked off a poetry contest on social media. 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