{"id":52143,"date":"2013-05-10T09:47:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T13:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=52143"},"modified":"2019-01-05T13:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T18:56:32","slug":"celebrity-publishing-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/10\/celebrity-publishing-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Publishing, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\u201cI waited until my first book was published to learn the genre, and when Oprah announced \u2018It\u2019s literary fiction!\u2019\u00a0just seconds after my pub date, I was overcome with joy.\u201d At McSweeney\u2019s, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/how-to-host-a-genre-reveal-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jessica Francis Kane<\/a> tries to make the Genre Reveal Party happen.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2013\/may\/05\/stewart-brand-whole-earth-catalog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stewart Brand<\/a>, the human proto-Internet.<\/li>\n<li>Viggo Mortensen, Johnny Depp, and 50 Cent: just three of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/113139\/celebrity-imprints-are-run-johhny-depp-and-chelsea-handler#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">celebrity publishers<\/a> on the scene.<\/li>\n<li>Short fiction, <a href=\"http:\/\/rapgenius.com\/Nick-antosca-rat-beast-lyrics#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annotated<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAround the time we had our first home computer, my dad started to keep track of all of the books that he read in an Excel Spreadsheet. He kept his spreadsheet up to date for almost twenty years, and he\u2019d accumulated 10,496 books before his death. My dad rated his books on a 1-10 scale, but his average score floated around 7.5\/10, so I think he generally enjoyed most of what he read.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/brandon-zarzyczny\/my-dad-and-his-10496-book_b_3222900.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A tribute<\/a> to a devoted reader.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI waited until my first book was published to learn the genre, and when Oprah announced \u2018It\u2019s literary fiction!\u2019\u00a0just seconds after my pub date, I was overcome with joy.\u201d At McSweeney\u2019s, Jessica Francis Kane tries to make the Genre Reveal Party happen. Stewart Brand, the human proto-Internet. 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