{"id":57114,"date":"2013-08-01T10:55:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T14:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=57114"},"modified":"2013-08-01T11:14:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T15:14:23","slug":"defiance-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/01\/defiance-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Defiance, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/russianblurb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/russianblurb.jpg\" alt=\"russianblurb\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/russianblurb.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/russianblurb-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/russianblurb-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>\u201cSo many other good books \u2026 don\u2019t waste your time on this one. J.&thinsp;D. Salinger went into hiding because he was embarrassed.\u201d And other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/article\/lone-star-statements\" target=\"_blank\">one-star Amazon reviews<\/a> of classics.<\/li>\n<li>Anthony Weiner spokesperson Barbara Morgan\u2019s recent rant against a campaign intern has led to <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=5560\" target=\"_blank\">several<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/swampland.time.com\/2013\/07\/31\/a-history-of-sltbg-the-latest-unflattering-word-associated-with-anthony-wei\" target=\"_blank\">discussions<\/a> of the usage of <em>bag<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>A Russian novel uses fake Swedish blurbs; publisher is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/pageviews\/2013\/07\/russian-publisher-admits-using-fake-swedish-blurbs-for-books\" target=\"_blank\">defiant<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Sweden! $255,000 worth of <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324110404578626313392362492.html\" target=\"_blank\">stolen rare books<\/a> have been returned to the National Library.<\/li>\n<li>J.&thinsp;K. Rowling is planning to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/rowling-donate-royalties-soldiers-charity.html\" target=\"_blank\">donate<\/a> <em>The Cuckoo&#8217;s Calling<\/em> royalties to the Soldier&#8217;s Charity. (You will recall that Robert Galbraith was in the service.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo many other good books \u2026 don\u2019t waste your time on this one. J.&thinsp;D. Salinger went into hiding because he was embarrassed.\u201d And other one-star Amazon reviews of classics. Anthony Weiner spokesperson Barbara Morgan\u2019s recent rant against a campaign intern has led to several discussions of the usage of bag. A Russian novel uses fake [&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":[564,11512,1310,11387],"class_list":["post-57114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-amazon","tag-barbara-morgan","tag-j-k-rowling","tag-robert-galbraith"],"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>Defiance, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"August 1, 2013 \u2013 \u201cSo many other good books \u2026 don\u2019t waste your time on this one. J.&thinsp;D. 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