{"id":53889,"date":"2013-06-05T09:30:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=53889"},"modified":"2013-06-05T09:39:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T13:39:26","slug":"story-stamps-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/story-stamps-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Stamps, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/irelandstamp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/irelandstamp.jpg\" alt=\"irelandstamp\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/irelandstamp.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/irelandstamp-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworld.org\/2013\/06\/irelands-new-stamp-features-a-224-word-short-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">This Irish stamp <\/a>features a 224-word short story.<\/li>\n<li>For those who want more sci with their fi: a new anthology, <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/a-new-science-fiction-anthology-about-exoplanets-that-r-511119434\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Kepler\u2019s Dozen<\/em><\/a>, collects short science fiction about real planets discovered by Kepler Spacecraft. Edited by scientists from Kepler!<\/li>\n<li>Great literature may <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/01\/does-great-literature-make-us-better\/\" target=\"_blank\">improve us as human beings<\/a> \u2026<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktryst.com\/2013\/06\/a-glutton-of-literature-hungry-for.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u2026 but!<\/a> \u201cIt is not sufficient to become learned to have read much, if we read without reflection.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>RIP really long German word, coined in 1999 in reference to the packaging of beef. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/world\/why-germans-bid-auf-wiedersehen-to-the-longest-word-in-the-language-1.1310325\" target=\"_blank\">Rindfleischetikettierungs\u00fcberwachungsaufgaben\u00fcbertragungsgesetz<\/a><\/em>, we hardly knew ya.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Irish stamp features a 224-word short story. For those who want more sci with their fi: a new anthology, Kepler\u2019s Dozen, collects short science fiction about real planets discovered by Kepler Spacecraft. Edited by scientists from Kepler! Great literature may improve us as human beings \u2026 \u2026 but! \u201cIt is not sufficient to become [&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":[2512],"tags":[1273,1120,11037,687,11038],"class_list":["post-53889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-german","tag-ireland","tag-kepler","tag-language","tag-stamps"],"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>Story Stamps, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 5, 2013 \u2013 This Irish stamp features a 224-word short story. 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