{"id":60824,"date":"2013-10-02T09:30:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T13:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=60824"},"modified":"2013-10-02T10:51:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T14:51:31","slug":"dickensian-peg-legs-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/02\/dickensian-peg-legs-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Dickensian Peg Legs, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pegleglarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60825\" alt=\"pegleglarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/pegleglarge.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are <em>so many wooden legs<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk\/untoldlives\/2013\/10\/without-a-leg-to-stand-on-victorian-prosthetics.html\" target=\"_blank\">in the works of Dickens<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/10\/david-bowies-list-of-top-100-books.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Bowie\u2019s one hundred favorite books<\/a> include <em>The Trial of Henry Kissinger<\/em>, <em>The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie<\/em>, and <em>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou\u2019ve published a novel, and half a dozen short stories, and you\u2019ve found clever ways to fluff up your bio. You think of your writing resume as one of the most creative pieces of fiction you\u2019ve written.\u201d\u00a0Justin Kramon on being a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glimmertrain.com\/b81kramon.html\" target=\"_blank\">fiction-writing professor<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFleming was essentially a bureaucrat during the war. But, being an imaginative man, he could not help thinking about a more active role as a secret agent.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/andrew-lycett\/ian-fleming-book_b_4024547.html?utm_hp_ref=books\" target=\"_blank\">The real story<\/a> behind the birth of James Bond.<\/li>\n<li>Yup: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/library-of-congress-website-buildings-closed_b78521\" target=\"_blank\">Library of Congress<\/a> is closed, too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many wooden legs in the works of Dickens. 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