{"id":51299,"date":"2013-04-25T09:33:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T13:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=51299"},"modified":"2013-04-25T09:35:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T13:35:40","slug":"salinger-letters-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/25\/salinger-letters-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Salinger Letters, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/24TENLETTER5-articleLarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/24TENLETTER5-articleLarge.jpg\" alt=\"24TENLETTER5-articleLarge\" width=\"600\" height=\"276\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/24TENLETTER5-articleLarge.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/24TENLETTER5-articleLarge-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/center><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 13px;\">\u201cYou can\u2019t go around buying Cadillacs on what the small mags pay, but that doesn\u2019t really matter, does it?\u201d A new cache of letters by young <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/24\/books\/9-letters-from-young-j-d-salinger-unearthed.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;smid=tw-share&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">J.&thinsp;D. Salinger<\/a> comes to light.\u00a0<br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><em>Granta<\/em> editor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/john-freeman-leaving-granta_b69251\" target=\"_blank\">John Freeman<\/a> is leaving the magazine to teach.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.washingtonpost.com\/2013-04-20\/local\/38691725_1_edward-de-grazia-naked-lunch-william-burroughs\" target=\"_blank\">Edward de Grazia<\/a>, a lawyer and free-speech advocate who defended both\u00a0<em>Tropic of Cancer <\/em>and\u00a0<em>Naked Lunch<\/em>, has died at eighty-six.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The strange mystery of the stolen books of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-22249700\" target=\"_blank\">Lambeth Palace<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/illya-szilak\/e-literature_b_3124028.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Library of Congress <\/a>(sort of) comes to terms with eBooks.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t go around buying Cadillacs on what the small mags pay, but that doesn\u2019t really matter, does it?\u201d A new cache of letters by young J.&thinsp;D. 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