{"id":51646,"date":"2013-04-30T17:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=51646"},"modified":"2013-04-30T19:51:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T23:51:29","slug":"business-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/business-as-usual\/","title":{"rendered":"Business as Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_51647\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/toklas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51647\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51647\" alt=\"Well-known businesswoman Alice B. Toklas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/toklas-240x300.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/toklas-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/toklas.jpg 513w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Well-known businesswoman Alice B. Toklas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Much has been made<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/04\/24\/women-novelists-wikipedia-female-authors-american_n_3149345.html\" target=\"_blank\"> in recent days<\/a> of Wikipedia\u2019s decision to place certain authors under the rubric \u201cAmerican Women Novelists,\u201d rather than merely \u201cAmerican Novelists\u201d\u2014the sort of thing which, in my retail days, I might have referred to as \u201ca strong choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps less controversial, but I would argue just as peculiar, is their designation of a lady who would today have been 136. In the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/April_30\" target=\"_blank\">alphabetized list<\/a> of notable birthdays for April 30 one may find the following:\u00a0\u201c<a title=\"Alice B. Toklas\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alice_B._Toklas\" target=\"_blank\">Alice B. Toklas<\/a>, American businesswoman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much has been made in recent days of Wikipedia\u2019s decision to place certain authors under the rubric \u201cAmerican Women Novelists,\u201d rather than merely \u201cAmerican Novelists\u201d\u2014the sort of thing which, in my retail days, I might have referred to as \u201ca strong choice.\u201d Perhaps less controversial, but I would argue just as peculiar, is their designation [&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":[419],"tags":[10779,9158,10780,1291],"class_list":["post-51646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-alice-b-toklas","tag-birthdays","tag-scandals","tag-wikipedia"],"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>Business as Usual by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"April 30, 2013 \u2013 Much has been made in recent days of Wikipedia\u2019s decision to place certain authors under the rubric \u201cAmerican Women Novelists,\u201d rather than merely\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/business-as-usual\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Business as Usual by Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"April 30, 2013 \u2013 Much has been made in recent days of Wikipedia\u2019s decision to place certain authors under the rubric \u201cAmerican Women Novelists,\u201d rather than merely\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/business-as-usual\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Paris Review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parisreview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-04-30T21:00:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-04-30T23:51:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/toklas.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"513\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@parisreview\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/business-as-usual\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/business-as-usual\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sadie Stein\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9\"},\"headline\":\"Business as Usual\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-04-30T21:00:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-04-30T23:51:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/business-as-usual\/\"},\"wordCount\":101,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/business-as-usual\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/toklas-240x300.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Alice B. 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