{"id":59353,"date":"2013-09-12T09:45:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T13:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=59353"},"modified":"2019-01-14T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T21:32:06","slug":"ye-olde-grease-lightning-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/12\/ye-olde-grease-lightning-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ye Olde Grease Lightning, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>San Francisco-based <a href=\"http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/2013\/09\/a-nearly-perfect-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arion Press<\/a>\u2014the last full-service letterpress in America\u2014is in pursuit of the perfect book.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThink of such trends in titles as the publishing industry\u2019s version of ombr\u00e9 hair or white Chuck Taylors.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/12\/fashion\/the-rising-value-of-land-in-book-titles.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=1&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The word<em> land<\/em> in titles<\/a> is all the rage for F\/W.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Let the record show<\/a>: say<em> syllabuses<\/em>, not <em>syllabi<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cToday there is literature coming out of Syria that we could have never even dreamed of just a few years ago.\u201d Political turmoil has given birth to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/2013\/09\/20139784442125773.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new wave of Syrian poetry<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/09\/09\/old-english-demonstrated_n_3894620.html?utm_hp_ref=books\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In which <\/a>college students act out scenes from <em>Grease<\/em> in Old English.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; San Francisco-based Arion Press\u2014the last full-service letterpress in America\u2014is in pursuit of the perfect book. \u201cThink of such trends in titles as the publishing industry\u2019s version of ombr\u00e9 hair or white Chuck Taylors.\u201d The word land in titles is all the rage for F\/W. 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