{"id":62272,"date":"2013-11-08T10:02:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T15:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=62272"},"modified":"2013-11-08T10:17:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T15:17:10","slug":"mad-money-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/08\/mad-money-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Money, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/vollmanspan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/vollmanspan.jpg\" alt=\"vollmanspan\" width=\"600\" height=\"318\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-62273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>\u201cIt will be fun to give some to prostitutes.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/lush-life-william-t-vollmann-2746#.Uns2R4tt15U.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">William T. Vollmann<\/a> on hypothetically winning the Nobel.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/latest-news\/mediawire\/228792\/buzzfeed-names-isaac-fitzgerald-its-first-books-editor\/\" target=\"_blank\">BuzzFeed Books<\/a> is full steam ahead.<\/li>\n<li>In other behemoth news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelf-awareness.com\/issue.html?issue=2123#m22134\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon reaches out<\/a> to indie bookstores about carrying Nooks.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNah. Here I\u2019m surrounded by people, but I\u2019m also pretty anonymous. Not having to bullshit\u2014even with a roommate who\u2019s a friend\u2014is a plus.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.com\/2013\/10\/the-new-homeless-inside-the-accidental-dormitory-that-is-nyus-bobst-library\/\" target=\"_blank\">On living in the NYU library<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt will be fun to give some to prostitutes.\u201d William T. 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Not having to bullshit\u2014even with a roommate who\u2019s [&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":[564,12174,10531,12173,12170,12171,12172,12169],"class_list":["post-62272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-amazon","tag-bobst-library","tag-buzzfeed","tag-new-york-university","tag-newsweek","tag-nobel-prize-for-literature","tag-nooks","tag-william-t-vollmann"],"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>Mad Money, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 8, 2013 \u2013 \u201cIt will be fun to give some to prostitutes.\u201d William T. 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