{"id":60451,"date":"2013-09-24T09:40:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T13:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=60451"},"modified":"2013-09-24T15:47:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T19:47:52","slug":"wtf-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/24\/wtf-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wtflarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wtflarge.jpg\" alt=\"wtflarge\" width=\"600\" height=\"476\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Poet Kofi Awoonor was among the victims of the Nairobi terrorist attacks. The African Poetry Book Fund will publish his final collection next year. Meanwhile, the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2013\/09\/22\/read-one-of-kofi-awoonors-final-poems\/\" target=\"_blank\">runs<\/a> one of his last poems.<\/li>\n<li>Following charges of author-bullying, Goodreads <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/goodreads-to-delete-content-focused-on-author-behavior_b78212\" target=\"_blank\">has declared<\/a> that, going forward, it will \u201cdelete content focused on author behavior.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>China is establishing a naming system for seabed areas based on the oldest known collection of Chinese poetry, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/china\/2013-09\/17\/c_132727471.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Classic of Poetry<\/em><\/a>, also known as the <em>Book of Odes<\/em>, which dates from the eleventh to seventh centuries <small>B.C.<\/small><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/lexicon_valley\/2013\/09\/18\/wtf_the_acronym_has_multiple_meanings_and_has_been_around_since_at_least.html\" target=\"_blank\">A concise history of <em>WTF<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet Kofi Awoonor was among the victims of the Nairobi terrorist attacks. 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