{"id":61476,"date":"2013-10-18T09:45:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T13:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=61476"},"modified":"2013-10-18T11:55:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T15:55:03","slug":"fictional-food-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/18\/fictional-food-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Fictional Food, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/enhanced-buzz-600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/enhanced-buzz-600.jpg\" alt=\"enhanced-buzz-600\" width=\"600\" height=\"427\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61477\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>Go Comics has put the complete <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/calvin-and-hobbes-comics-online-for-free_b79101\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Calvin and Hobbes<\/em><\/a>\u00a0archive online. Read on the site, or download the app.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maryfduffy.tumblr.com\/post\/64272402383\/the-novels-of-nicholson-baker-in-nail-art-the\" target=\"_blank\">The novels of Nicholson Baker. In nail art<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/erinchack\/can-you-guess-which-books-inspired-these-fictious-food\" target=\"_blank\">Can you guess which books inspired these fictitious food\u00a0scenes<\/a>? Or, the quiz some of us have been training for our entire lives.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTo call these books <em>essential<\/em> is not to say that I believe everyone must read them, but to convey that they broadened and informed my ideas of what it means to be female and how the stories of girls and women are told.\u201d Anna Holmes on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookish.com\/articles\/jezebels-anna-holmes-5-lady-books-everyone-should-read\" target=\"_blank\">five essential &#8220;lady&#8221; books everyone should read.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go Comics has put the complete Calvin and Hobbes\u00a0archive online. Read on the site, or download the app. The novels of Nicholson Baker. In nail art. Can you guess which books inspired these fictitious food\u00a0scenes? Or, the quiz some of us have been training for our entire lives. \u201cTo call these books essential is not [&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":[12055,12054,2660],"class_list":["post-61476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-anna-holmes","tag-calvin-and-hobbes","tag-nicholson-baker"],"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>Fictional Food, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"October 18, 2013 \u2013 Go Comics has put the complete Calvin and Hobbes\u00a0archive online. Read on the site, or download the app. The novels of Nicholson Baker. In nail art. 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