{"id":56121,"date":"2013-07-16T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=56121"},"modified":"2013-07-16T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T15:16:17","slug":"live-like-william-blake-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/16\/live-like-william-blake-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Like William Blake, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/600.jpg\" alt=\"600\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/600-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>The picturesque West Sussex cottage where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/books\/jacketcopy\/la-et-jc-tyger-tyger-burning-bright-william-blakes-cottage-is-for-sale-20130715,0,1378248.story\" target=\"_blank\">William Blake<\/a> lived, sometimes nude, from 1800\u20131803 (the period during which he wrote \u201cJerusalem\u201d) is on the market for \u00a3650,000. The agent says, \u201cThe original part of the cottage has been altered little in its essential features. The rooms in which William Blake lived retain enormous character and the dining room was at this time the site of his printing press.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Reading (along with writing and doing puzzles) improves cognitive function in old age, <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/51627\/bookworms-have-better-brains-old-age\" target=\"_blank\">a study shows<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In which writers such as Emma Straub and Matthew Specktor <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/403460\/flavorwire-exclusive-authors-write-about-their-favorite-streets-in-literature\" target=\"_blank\">discourse<\/a> on their favorite literary streets.<\/li>\n<li>Google\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/pageviews\/2013\/07\/google-doesn%E2%80%99t-get-kafka-but-that%E2%80%99s-okay-because-twitter-does\" target=\"_blank\">Kafka<\/a> doodle was not remotely Kafkaesque, Twitter feels.<\/li>\n<li>July 17, obviously, is Take Your Poet to Work Day. Herewith, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookpatrol.net\/2013\/07\/take-your-poet-to-work-day.html\" target=\"_blank\">handy cutouts<\/a> of several bards. Blake not included (but that\u2019s probably a good thing).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picturesque West Sussex cottage where William Blake lived, sometimes nude, from 1800\u20131803 (the period during which he wrote \u201cJerusalem\u201d) is on the market for \u00a3650,000. The agent says, \u201cThe original part of the cottage has been altered little in its essential features. The rooms in which William Blake lived retain enormous character and the [&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":[2480,2252,5410,2361,165,2047,53,11398,4035],"class_list":["post-56121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-age","tag-emma-straub","tag-franz-kafka","tag-matthew-specktor","tag-poetry","tag-poets","tag-reading","tag-streets","tag-william-blake"],"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>Live Like William Blake, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 16, 2013 \u2013 The picturesque West Sussex cottage where William Blake lived, sometimes nude, from 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