{"id":50120,"date":"2013-04-08T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=50120"},"modified":"2013-04-08T08:48:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T12:48:03","slug":"these-quizzes-are-hard-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/08\/these-quizzes-are-hard-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"These Quizzes Are Hard, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/phantom8a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-50128\" alt=\"phantom8a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/phantom8a.jpg\" width=\"271\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/phantom8a.jpg 271w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/phantom8a-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/PWxyz\/2013\/04\/04\/can-you-guess-these-classic-books-from-their-phantom-covers-round-5\/\" target=\"_blank\">Can you guess these classic books from their phantom covers?<\/a> In a word: no. (Well, three of them.)<\/li>\n<li>Guess <a href=\"http:\/\/bookriot.com\/2013\/04\/07\/guess-these-famous-novels-by-their-second-lines\/\" target=\"_blank\">these famous novels<\/a> from their second lines? We batted like .600.<\/li>\n<li>Also disspiritingly difficult: this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/9973953\/John-le-Carre-quiz-20-questions-to-test-your-knowledge.html\" target=\"_blank\">John le Carr\u00e9 quiz<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Buck up! \u201cWithout the advertising budgets of major houses, the smaller presses have more difficulty finding readers, Mr. Nelson said, and the idea behind the library was to form a community of people who could share books that were not easy to find elsewhere.\u201d Meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/08\/nyregion\/at-a-do-it-yourself-salon-in-brooklyn-books-obscure-and-arcane.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Mellow Pages Library<\/a> of Bushwick.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Iain Banks, who announced last week that he is dying of cancer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/lifestyle\/books\/features\/iain-banks-marries-in-his-favourite-place-1-2882190?utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed\" target=\"_blank\">married<\/a> his long-term partner at Inverlochy Castle Hotel in the Scottish Highlands. As he put it, he asked if she would \u201cdo me the honour of becoming my widow.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you guess these classic books from their phantom covers? In a word: no. (Well, three of them.) Guess these famous novels from their second lines? We batted like .600. Also disspiritingly difficult: this John le Carr\u00e9 quiz. Buck up! \u201cWithout the advertising budgets of major houses, the smaller presses have more difficulty finding readers, [&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":[9899,10552,3983,10583,149,7723,10584],"class_list":["post-50120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-covers","tag-iain-banks","tag-john-le-carre","tag-mellow-pages","tag-news","tag-roundup","tag-second-lines"],"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>These Quizzes Are Hard, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"April 8, 2013 \u2013 Can you guess these classic books from their phantom covers? In a word: no. 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