{"id":62598,"date":"2013-11-18T10:22:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=62598"},"modified":"2013-11-18T10:32:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T15:32:37","slug":"rip-doris-lessing-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/18\/rip-doris-lessing-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Doris Lessing, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/dorislessinglarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/dorislessinglarge.jpg\" alt=\"dorislessinglarge\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62599\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2013\/11\/18\/245769762\/doris-lessing-nobel-prize-winning-author-dies\" target=\"_blank\">Doris Lessing has died at ninety-four<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe adamant child became the adamant adult. She truly had ice in her veins. She believed that her insight and her talent were unique, and she may well have been right.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/booknews\/10456553\/Doris-Lessing-wrote-to-make-the-world-a-better-place.html\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Cartwright<\/a> pays tribute.<\/li>\n<li>Library copies of <em>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2013\/nov\/18\/fifty-shades-of-grey-viral-library-herpes\" target=\"_blank\">have been found to carry traces of herpes and cocaine<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>How Philip Roth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/11\/17\/philip_roth_is_wrong_about_elderly_sex\/\" target=\"_blank\">gets geriatric sex<\/a> wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doris Lessing has died at ninety-four. \u201cThe adamant child became the adamant adult. She truly had ice in her veins. She believed that her insight and her talent were unique, and she may well have been right.\u201d Justin Cartwright pays tribute. Library copies of Fifty Shades of Grey have been found to carry traces of [&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":[12216,12071,7405,99],"class_list":["post-62598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-barbara-park","tag-doris-lessing","tag-fifty-shades-of-grey","tag-philip-roth"],"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>RIP Doris Lessing, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 18, 2013 \u2013 Doris Lessing has died at ninety-four. \u201cThe adamant child became the adamant adult. She truly had ice in her veins. 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