{"id":61825,"date":"2013-10-29T10:06:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T14:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=61825"},"modified":"2013-10-29T12:21:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:21:30","slug":"literary-vigilantes-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/29\/literary-vigilantes-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Vigilantes, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/litdetectivelarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/litdetectivelarge.jpg\" alt=\"litdetectivelarge\" width=\"600\" height=\"580\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61826\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehairpin.com\/2013\/10\/7-haikus-for-failed-hip-hop-clothing-lines#comments\" target=\"_blank\">Seven haikus for failed hip-hop clothing lines<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/115016\/publishing-back-so-long-successful-authors-give-writing\" target=\"_blank\">Lionel Shriver<\/a>: \u201cI have grown perversely nostalgic for my previous commercial failure\u2014when my focus was pure, and the books were still fun to write, even if nobody read them.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/article\/246790\" target=\"_blank\">An ode to literary siblings<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt became crystal clear that some piece-of-shit scam artist was preying on aspiring writers just hoping for a wisp of recognition. I considered this an added insult\u2014nobody deserves to be swindled, but it took a particular kind of cruelty to bilk sweet, earnest, well-meaning writers, especially the ones who\u2019d worked hard enough to actually finish a book and were now struggling to get it out there and read by people.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/article\/ninety-nine-bottles-of-pee-on-the-wall\" target=\"_blank\">Davy Rothbart<\/a> on literary vigilantism.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/sciencenow\/la-sci-sn-spanking-study-20131021,0,1155631.story#axzz2j5DDpOIG\" target=\"_blank\">Spanking may be bad for vocabulary<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven haikus for failed hip-hop clothing lines. 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