{"id":52517,"date":"2013-05-17T09:30:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T13:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=52517"},"modified":"2013-05-17T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T14:02:02","slug":"necessary-words-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/necessary-words-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Necessary Words, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tsundokularge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tsundokularge.jpg\" alt=\"tsundokularge\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tsundokularge.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tsundokularge-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>In Japanese,<a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/kRgaXcQ.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"> <em>tsundoku<\/em> means<\/a> \u201cthe act of buying books and not reading them, leaving them to pile up.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/the-cocktail-chart-of-film-literature-by-pop-chart-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Cocktail Chart of Film and Literature<\/a> is quite an achievement.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/how-a-poem-spread-to-1500-baseball-fields_b70474\" target=\"_blank\">An inspirational poem<\/a> is sweeping Little League fields across the nation.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBut even bigger than the novels, it seems, is the farm lit memoir. Call it the \u2018career girl\u2019s gone Green Acres\u2019 narrative, it inevitably involves a journalist or other hard-charging type who repairs to the countryside, either to follow a dream or a man, or to escape a calamity (debt, divorce).\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/sexes\/archive\/2013\/05\/chick-lit-is-dead-long-live-farm-lit\/275643\/\" target=\"_blank\">Farm lit is the new chick lit<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Happy news! Baltimore\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/05\/17\/edgar-allen-poe-house-reopening_n_3291087.html?utm_hp_ref=books&amp;ir=Books\" target=\"_blank\">Edgar Allan Poe Museum<\/a> will reopen come October.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Japanese, tsundoku means \u201cthe act of buying books and not reading them, leaving them to pile up.\u201d The Cocktail Chart of Film and Literature is quite an achievement. 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