{"id":53913,"date":"2013-06-05T13:20:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=53913"},"modified":"2013-06-05T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:20:58","slug":"the-town-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/the-town-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The Town of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hay-on-wyelarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53918\" alt=\"hay-on-wyelarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hay-on-wyelarge.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hay-on-wyelarge.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/hay-on-wyelarge-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hay-on-Wye, Wales, has a population of 1,500 and thirty secondhand bookstores. Since the 1960s, the town has taken in discarded tomes from across the anglophone world, and is known as \u201cthe town of books.\u201d Appropriately enough, it&#8217;s also home to the annual Hay Festival, described by <a href=\" http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/books\/2013\/05\/30\/hay-literature-arts-festival-wales\/2361763\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>USA Today<\/em><\/a> as \u201ca geographically remote, bohemian version of the World Economic Forum\u2019s Davos event.\u201d Kindles, needless to say, are frowned upon. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hay-on-Wye, Wales, has a population of 1,500 and thirty secondhand bookstores. 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