{"id":59389,"date":"2013-09-13T10:09:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T14:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=59389"},"modified":"2013-09-13T10:09:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T14:09:06","slug":"tolstoys-instagram-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/tolstoys-instagram-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolstoy\u2019s Instagram, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tolstoyinstagram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tolstoyinstagram.jpg\" alt=\"tolstoyinstagram\" width=\"600\" height=\"1175\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59390\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>The Princeton University library has <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyprincetonian.com\/news\/2013\/09\/manuscript-of-f-scott-fitzgeralds-first-novel-digitized-for-public-access\/\" target=\"_blank\">digitized the manuscript<\/a> of <em>This Side of Paradise<\/em> and made it available online.<\/li>\n<li>What if famous authors <em>did<\/em> have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/harpercollins\/if-famous-writers-had-instagram-9npd\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram accounts<\/a>? What indeed?<\/li>\n<li>Upon her death, an Ohio librarian quietly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/09\/12\/library-donation_n_3915654.html?utm_hp_ref=libraries-in-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">donated her life savings<\/a>\u2014one million dollars\u2014to the Columbus Metropolitan Library.<\/li>\n<li>Annie Proulx is <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/11\/annie-proulx-writes-libretto-for-brokeback-mountain-opera\/?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">penning the libretto<\/a> for\u00a0Charles Wuorinen\u2019s <em>Brokeback Mountain<\/em> opera.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Princeton University library has digitized the manuscript of This Side of Paradise and made it available online. What if famous authors did have Instagram accounts? What indeed? Upon her death, an Ohio librarian quietly donated her life savings\u2014one million dollars\u2014to the Columbus Metropolitan Library. Annie Proulx is penning the libretto for\u00a0Charles Wuorinen\u2019s Brokeback Mountain [&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":[5945,5946,11836,660,10911],"class_list":["post-59389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-annie-proulx","tag-brokeback-mountain","tag-charles-wuorinen","tag-f-scott-fitzgerald","tag-instagram"],"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>Tolstoy\u2019s Instagram, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 13, 2013 \u2013 The Princeton University library has digitized the manuscript of This Side of Paradise and made it available online. 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