{"id":61127,"date":"2013-10-09T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T14:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=61127"},"modified":"2013-10-09T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T15:20:23","slug":"librarians-darkest-secrets-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/09\/librarians-darkest-secrets-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Librarians\u2019 Darkest Secrets, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/librraianshamelarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/librraianshamelarge.jpg\" alt=\"librraianshamelarge\" width=\"600\" height=\"545\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Shame! <a href=\"http:\/\/librarian-shaming.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Librarians tell all<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI think that Napoleon was a terrific guy before he started crossing national borders. Over the course of time, his temperament changed, and his behavior was insensitive to the nations he occupied. Through greed\u2014which it sees differently, as technological development and efficiency for the customer and low price, all that\u2014[Amazon] has walked itself into the position of thinking that it can thrive without the assistance of anyone else. That is megalomania.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/115007\/andrew-wylie-interview-literary-agent-makes-millions-highbrow\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Wylie on Amazon<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>For those inured to leaf-peeping, an October <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/pageviews\/2013\/10\/a-guide-to-horror-author-tourism-in-the-northeast-morbid-memorials-macabre-museums\" target=\"_blank\">guide to Northeastern horror-writer tourism<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Wamblecropt<\/em>, <em>groke<\/em>, and other wonderful, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2013\/oct\/09\/mark-forsyth-the-horologicon-top-10-lost-words\" target=\"_blank\">forgotten words<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shame! Librarians tell all. \u201cI think that Napoleon was a terrific guy before he started crossing national borders. Over the course of time, his temperament changed, and his behavior was insensitive to the nations he occupied. Through greed\u2014which it sees differently, as technological development and efficiency for the customer and low price, all that\u2014[Amazon] has [&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":[4223,565,9036,8669],"class_list":["post-61127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-amazon-com","tag-andrew-wylie","tag-horror","tag-librarians"],"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>Librarians\u2019 Darkest Secrets, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"October 9, 2013 \u2013 Shame! 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