{"id":61418,"date":"2013-10-17T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=61418"},"modified":"2013-10-17T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T15:28:37","slug":"click-bait-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/17\/click-bait-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Click-Bait, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lolitalarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lolitalarge.jpg\" alt=\"lolitalarge\" width=\"600\" height=\"937\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>College Humor improves bestsellers with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegehumor.com\/article\/6923989\/if-popular-books-had-clickbait-titles\" target=\"_blank\">click-bait titles<\/a> (although we would have said <em>Eat, Pray, Love<\/em> was doing okay already).<\/li>\n<li>The rough guide to why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/shortcuts\/2013\/oct\/13\/penguin-classics-morrissey-autobiography\" target=\"_blank\">Penguin Classics is publishing Morrissey\u2019s autobiography<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The most specific niche calendar ever created: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/rilibraries.org\/tattooed-librarians-ocean-state\" target=\"_blank\">Tattooed Librarians of the Ocean State<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Herewith, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/most-famous-book-set-in-every-state-map-2013-10\" target=\"_blank\">famous books from every state<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>One in ten Icelanders will publish a book. As one young author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-24399599\" target=\"_blank\">tells the BBC<\/a>, it can indeed get competitive. \u201cEspecially as I live with my mother and partner, who are also full-time writers. But we try to publish in alternate years so we do not compete too much.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College Humor improves bestsellers with click-bait titles (although we would have said Eat, Pray, Love was doing okay already). The rough guide to why Penguin Classics is publishing Morrissey\u2019s autobiography. The most specific niche calendar ever created: &#8220;Tattooed Librarians of the Ocean State.\u201d Herewith, famous books from every state. One in ten Icelanders will publish [&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":[1822,11030,9247,1377],"class_list":["post-61418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-iceland","tag-morrissey","tag-penguin-classics","tag-rhode-island"],"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>Click-Bait, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"October 17, 2013 \u2013 College Humor improves bestsellers with click-bait titles (although we would have said Eat, Pray, Love was doing okay already). 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