{"id":54963,"date":"2013-06-25T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=54963"},"modified":"2013-06-25T10:25:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T14:25:33","slug":"map-your-books-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/25\/map-your-books-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Map Your Books, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_54964\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cafekafkalarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54964\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54964\" alt=\"cafekafkalarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cafekafkalarge.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cafekafkalarge.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/cafekafkalarge-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caf\u00e9 Kafka, Barcelona.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>A new app, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/map-your-favorite-books_b72980\" target=\"_blank\">Placing Literature,<\/a> lets you find literary landmarks and bookstores wherever your travels take you.<\/li>\n<li>For your delectation: <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/397308\/10-literary-restaurants-for-hungry-book-nerds-around-the-world\/1\" target=\"_blank\">ten bookish restaurants<\/a>. (We want to go to Caf\u00e9 Kafka.)<\/li>\n<li>Everyone knows the original <em>Little Mermaid\u2014<\/em>walking on knives, sea foam, and all\u2014is anything but cute. At the <em>LA Review of Books<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article.php?type=&#038;id=1787&#038;fulltext=1&#038;media\" target=\"_blank\">scholars weigh in<\/a> on the implications of Andersen\u2019s grim tale.<\/li>\n<li>A tribute to that publisher\u2019s friend, <a href=\"http:\/\/bookriot.com\/2013\/06\/24\/your-book-in-a-sentence-an-ode-to-the-subtitle\/\" target=\"_blank\">the subtitle<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe teaching of the humanities has fallen on hard times.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/23\/opinion\/sunday\/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-english-major.html?src=me&amp;ref=general&amp;_r=1&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">Verlyn Klinkenborg<\/a> on the rise and fall of the American English major.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new app, Placing Literature, lets you find literary landmarks and bookstores wherever your travels take you. For your delectation: ten bookish restaurants. (We want to go to Caf\u00e9 Kafka.) Everyone knows the original Little Mermaid\u2014walking on knives, sea foam, and all\u2014is anything but cute. 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