{"id":64840,"date":"2014-01-13T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=64840"},"modified":"2014-01-13T15:58:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T20:58:59","slug":"the-anti-cafe-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/13\/the-anti-cafe-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Caf\u00e9, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_64842\" style=\"width: 608px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cafe\u0301_parisien.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64842\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64842 \" alt=\"Cafe\u0301_parisien\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Cafe\u0301_parisien.jpg\" width=\"598\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Are its days numbered? Photo: Airair, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>In London, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/arts-and-lifestyle\/2014\/01\/anti-cafe-you-you-pay-just-sit-around\/8082\/\" target=\"_blank\">the anti-caf\u00e9 has arrived<\/a>. It\u2019s a place where you pay about a nickel a minute to sit around and drink free coffee. Will the intelligentsia cotton to it? We\u2019ll keep you posted.<\/li>\n<li>Golden Globes be damned\u2014yesterday also saw the announcement of the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/tartt-franzen-among-finalists-critics-prizes-011430667.html\" target=\"_blank\">National Book Critics Circle award nominations<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If you must transpose real people into fictional avatars, heed Christopher Isherwood\u2019s advice: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/essay\/real-people-as-fictional-characters\" target=\"_blank\">You can question their morals, call them liars, expose them as thieves\u2014as long as you describe them as attractive<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Arthur Schopenhauer: post-Kantian metaphysician, notorious curmudgeon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/13\/schopenhauer-on-authorship\/?utm_content=buffer415ee&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">prophetic technofuturist<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>The Supreme Court <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=9692&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">is about to argue semantics<\/a>. Among the prickly issues to be addressed: what does <em>happen<\/em> mean?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In London, the anti-caf\u00e9 has arrived. It\u2019s a place where you pay about a nickel a minute to sit around and drink free coffee. Will the intelligentsia cotton to it? We\u2019ll keep you posted. Golden Globes be damned\u2014yesterday also saw the announcement of the National Book Critics Circle award nominations. If you must transpose real [&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":[12530,12529,12531,4092,2471,10873],"class_list":["post-64840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-arthur-schopenhauer","tag-cafes","tag-christopher-isherwood","tag-national-book-critic-circle-award","tag-semantics","tag-supreme-court"],"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>Book News for January 13, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 13, 2014 \u2013 In London, the anti-caf\u00e9 has arrived. It\u2019s a place where you pay about a nickel a minute to sit around and drink free coffee. 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