{"id":64569,"date":"2014-01-08T09:45:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T14:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=64569"},"modified":"2014-01-08T09:20:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T14:20:55","slug":"because-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/08\/because-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Because<\/i>, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WE_MUST_WIN_THIS_WAR_BECAUSE1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64573 aligncenter\" alt=\"WE_MUST_WIN_THIS_WAR_BECAUSE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WE_MUST_WIN_THIS_WAR_BECAUSE1-1024x513.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>The American Dialect Society\u2014how do we join?\u2014has voted <em>because<\/em> the word of the year. They chose <em>because<\/em> because <em>because<\/em> \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/jan\/08\/us-word-of-year-2013-because-dialect\" target=\"_blank\">exploded with new grammatical possibilities in informal online use<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In the Midwest, towns are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/suburbs\/la_grange_western_springs\/chi-borders-chicago-20140107,0,7551198.story\" target=\"_blank\">living without Borders<\/a>. (The defunct bookstore chain, not the metaphorical limitation.) Some independent bookstores have even cropped up in its place.<\/li>\n<li>How did Reddit\u2019s brilliant AMA series go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/01\/ama-how-a-weird-internet-thing-became-a-mainstream-delight\/282860\/\" target=\"_blank\">from geeky to mainstream<\/a>? (Did you know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/IAmA\/comments\/1m4co4\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Paris Review<\/em> did one<\/a> last year?)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOf course, my definition of evil is not everybody else\u2019s. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.co.uk\/culture\/features\/5483\/kenneth-anger\/\" target=\"_blank\">An expansive interview with the singular Kenneth Anger.<\/a><\/li>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Dialect Society\u2014how do we join?\u2014has voted because the word of the year. They chose because because because \u201cexploded with new grammatical possibilities in informal online use.\u201d In the Midwest, towns are living without Borders. (The defunct bookstore chain, not the metaphorical limitation.) Some independent bookstores have even cropped up in its place. How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[11842,12491,12490,2189,3456,6871],"class_list":["post-64569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-ama","tag-american-dialect-society","tag-because","tag-borders","tag-kenneth-anger","tag-reddit"],"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>Because, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 8, 2014 \u2013 The American Dialect Society\u2014how do we join?\u2014has voted because the word of the year. 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