{"id":52687,"date":"2013-05-20T13:30:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T17:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=52687"},"modified":"2013-05-20T13:34:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T17:34:29","slug":"upper-west-side-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/upper-west-side-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper West Side Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/WhosWhoDogs-Edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/WhosWhoDogs-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"WhosWhoDogs-Edit\" width=\"600\" height=\"471\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/WhosWhoDogs-Edit.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/WhosWhoDogs-Edit-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was delighted and relieved, recently, to run across the Tumblr <a href=\"http:\/\/brooklynstoopbooks.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stoop Books of Brooklyn<\/a>, which has been garnering some well-deserved Internet buzz. Delighted because the Tumblr is a fun sociological study, really well executed; relieved because (in my mind) its existence obviates the need for me to create something similar. You see, for some months now, I have been keeping track of the books left on the giveaway table of my apartment building\u2019s lobby. (On my\u00a0lackluster Instagram feed, I tag these images with the rather lame #uwsidestories.)<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/hosting.soundslides.com\/nzk7h\/iframe.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"595\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have long thought, vaguely, that they\u2019d make a good \u201cphoto piece\u201d&mdash;I suspect it would have to do with print media, or ideas of ownership, or maybe the isolation of urban life\u2014but given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/Artist-Photograph-Residents-Window-Tribeca-Svenson-Complaint-207688861.html\" target=\"_blank\">the reception<\/a> of a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/arnesvenson.com\/theneighbors.html\" target=\"_blank\">neighbor-based work<\/a> by an actual photographer, this seems increasingly ill-advised.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it would have taken energy away from my other hypothetical Tumblr, \u201cGnomic Utterances,\u201d which will consist of pictures of gnomes with cryptic things written under them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was delighted and relieved, recently, to run across the Tumblr Stoop Books of Brooklyn, which has been garnering some well-deserved Internet buzz. 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You see, for some [&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":[17,10909,10911,10908,7242,10910],"class_list":["post-52687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-books","tag-giveaways","tag-instagram","tag-stoops","tag-tumblr","tag-uwsstories"],"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>Upper West Side Story by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 20, 2013 \u2013 I was delighted and relieved, recently, to run across the Tumblr Stoop Books of Brooklyn, which has been garnering some well-deserved Internet buzz.\" \/>\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\/05\/20\/upper-west-side-story\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Upper West Side Story by Sadie Stein\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"May 20, 2013 \u2013 I was delighted and relieved, recently, to run across the Tumblr Stoop Books of Brooklyn, which has been garnering some well-deserved Internet buzz.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/upper-west-side-story\/\" \/>\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=\"2013-05-20T17:30:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-05-20T17:34:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/WhosWhoDogs-Edit.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"471\" \/>\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\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/upper-west-side-story\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/upper-west-side-story\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sadie Stein\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/a1aef49f81bfc540a37e03590f3bb4d9\"},\"headline\":\"Upper West Side Story\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-05-20T17:30:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-05-20T17:34:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/upper-west-side-story\/\"},\"wordCount\":176,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/upper-west-side-story\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/WhosWhoDogs-Edit.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"books\",\"giveaways\",\"Instagram\",\"Stoops\",\"tumblr\",\"UWSStories\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Arts &amp; 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