{"id":49949,"date":"2013-04-04T09:30:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T13:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=49949"},"modified":"2013-04-04T09:26:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T13:26:15","slug":"good-little-girls-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/good-little-girls-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Little Girls, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/original-e1365080346568.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/original-e1365080346568.jpg\" alt=\"original\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49951\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>\u201cGood little girls ought not to make mouths at their teachers for every trifling offense. This retaliation should only be resorted to under peculiarly aggravated circumstances.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/04\/03\/advice-to-little-girls-mark-twain_n_3007763.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003&amp;ir=Books\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Twain\u2019s advice to little girls<\/a>, illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of: the always fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2013\/apr\/04\/wodehouse-prize-comic-fiction-shortlist?CMP=twt_fd\" target=\"_blank\">Wodehouse Prize shortlist<\/a> is posted.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBritish writing will be far less incisive and fun when he stops.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/9970247\/Iain-Banks-taught-me-that-books-can-be-a-hand-grenade.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Martin<\/a> pays tribute to Iain Banks, who just revealed his terminal illness.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBanks manages to be both popular and profound,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/the-scotsman\/books\/reviews-and-news\/stuart-kelly-on-iain-banks-an-imagination-from-small-town-scotland-to-outer-space-1-2876074#.UV0ymyesXBQ.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">says Stuart Kelly <\/a>in <em>The Scotsman<\/em>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGood little girls ought not to make mouths at their teachers for every trifling offense. This retaliation should only be resorted to under peculiarly aggravated circumstances.\u201d Mark Twain\u2019s advice to little girls, illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky. Speaking of: the always fun Wodehouse Prize shortlist is posted. \u201cBritish writing will be far less incisive and fun [&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":[10552,1766,3259,10561,10560,11,10559],"class_list":["post-49949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-iain-banks","tag-mark-twain","tag-p-g-wodehouse","tag-tim-martin","tag-vladimir-radunsky","tag-william-styron","tag-wodehouse-pirze"],"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>Good Little Girls, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"April 4, 2013 \u2013 \u201cGood little girls ought not to make mouths at their teachers for every trifling offense. 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