{"id":57581,"date":"2013-08-09T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=57581"},"modified":"2019-01-08T17:24:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T22:24:42","slug":"wretched-writing-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/09\/wretched-writing-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Wretched Writing, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\u201cI draw a hot sorrow bath in my despair room.\u201d This quote, by Keanu Reeves, is part of <a href=\"http:\/\/newsfeed.time.com\/2013\/08\/07\/schadenfreude-alert-inside-a-collection-of-wretched-writing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an anthology<\/a> called <em>Wretched Writing<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Herewith, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Books\/chapter-and-verse\/2013\/0808\/Kill-Your-Darlings-a-chronicle-of-the-Beat-writers-gets-a-new-trailer-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the <em>Kill Your Darlings<\/em> trailer<\/a>, featuring Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg.<\/li>\n<li>Meet idiosyncratic Houston-area used bookstore <a href=\"http:\/\/impactnews.com\/houston-metro\/the-woodlands\/good-books-in-the-woods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Good Books in the Woods<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.villagevoice.com\/runninscared\/2013\/08\/the_most_beauti.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A beautiful missed connection<\/a> electrifies the Internet; the author is revealed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI draw a hot sorrow bath in my despair room.\u201d This quote, by Keanu Reeves, is part of an anthology called Wretched Writing. 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