{"id":61767,"date":"2013-10-28T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T13:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=61767"},"modified":"2013-10-28T12:23:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T16:23:11","slug":"literary-cultural-districts-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/28\/literary-cultural-districts-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Cultural Districts, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/make-way-for-ducklings-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61768\" alt=\"make-way-for-ducklings-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/make-way-for-ducklings-large.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"412\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A group of advocates is looking to establish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/arts\/books\/2013\/10\/26\/author-slept-here-boston-literary-community-pushes-for-literary-cultural-district\/AYGRJvKI44OXzQIQU8CPjP\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">the nation\u2019s first literary cultural district<\/a> in historically-rich Boston. Says the <em>Globe<\/em>, \u201cIts proponents don\u2019t know exactly where its borders will lie, or what, precisely, visitors will do, but more significant is this: the very idea that there could be a literary cultural district is recognition that the city is undergoing a renaissance.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A Cleveland house <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/pageviews\/2013\/10\/langston-hughes%E2%80%99-cleveland-home-on-the-market-for-85000\" target=\"_blank\">where Langston Hughes lived<\/a> as a high-school student is on the market, following a foreclosure.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2013\/oct\/28\/germaine-greer-sells-archive-to-university-of-melbourne\" target=\"_blank\">Germaine Greer<\/a> has sold her archive to her alma mater, the University of Melbourne. The feminist\u2019s portion of the three million dollar sale will go to her charity, Friends of Gondwana Rainforest.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBecause we are less sure of what fiction is \u2018saying,\u2019 we are less preemptively defended against it or biased in its favor. We are inclined to let it past our fortifications. It\u2019s merely a court jester, there to amuse us. We let in the brazen liar and his hidden, difficult truths.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/27\/books\/review\/whats-behind-the-notion-that-nonfiction-is-more-relevant-than-fiction.html?ref=books&amp;_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">Rivka Galchen<\/a> on the relevance of fiction.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of advocates is looking to establish the nation\u2019s first literary cultural district in historically-rich Boston. Says the Globe, \u201cIts proponents don\u2019t know exactly where its borders will lie, or what, precisely, visitors will do, but more significant is this: the very idea that there could be a literary cultural district is recognition that [&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":[1456,11426,3296,5394],"class_list":["post-61767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-boston","tag-germaine-greer","tag-langston-hughes","tag-rivka-galchen"],"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>Literary Cultural Districts, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"October 28, 2013 \u2013 A group of advocates is looking to establish the nation\u2019s first literary cultural district in historically-rich Boston. 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