{"id":69352,"date":"2014-04-07T09:28:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T13:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=69352"},"modified":"2014-04-07T11:19:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T15:19:48","slug":"the-original-e-book-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/07\/the-original-e-book-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The Original E-Book, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/floppy-disks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69353\" alt=\"floppy disks\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/floppy-disks.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As obituaries and touching remembrances of Peter Matthiessen poured in this weekend, <i>The New Yorker<\/i> made <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.newyorker.com\/?i=1961-07-08#folio=030\" target=\"_blank\">some of his travel writing<\/a> available to nonsubscribers\u2014specifically \u201cMatthiessen\u2019s mesmerizing account of his journey, by ship, to the Amazon and throughout the wildernesses of South America.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Tales of <a href=\"http:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/article\/william-faulkners-hollywood-odyssey\" target=\"_blank\">Faulkner in Hollywood<\/a>: \u201c\u2018Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.\u2019 The quotation from Dante is what Faulkner considered a fitting road sign for drivers to see as they crossed the border into California.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Before Americans loved baseball, we gathered to take in another grand national pastime: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/04\/03\/297327865\/book-pedestrianism\" target=\"_blank\">competitive walking<\/a>. It was, if you can believe it, even stranger and blander than it sounds.<\/li>\n<li>The irredeemably cheery mascots on cereal boxes are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2014-04-02\/is-capn-crunch-staring-straight-into-your-child-s-soul\" target=\"_blank\">staring directly into your child\u2019s soul<\/a>, experts say. \u201cResearchers found that children\u2019s cereals are typically placed on the bottom two shelves and the mascots deploy \u2018a downward gaze at an angle of 9.67 degrees.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li>For the origins of the e-book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/mar\/12\/ebooks-begin-medium-reading-peter-james\" target=\"_blank\">look to the floppy disk<\/a>. Specifically, look to Peter James\u2019s <i>Host<\/i>, a novel published on two disks in 1993. It \u201chas now become a historical artifact, accepted into the Science Museum&#8217;s collection as a very early electronic novel.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Archipelago Books <a href=\"http:\/\/publishingperspectives.com\/2014\/04\/archipelago-books-10-years-100-titles-26-languages\/\" target=\"_blank\">turns ten<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As obituaries and touching remembrances of Peter Matthiessen poured in this weekend, The New Yorker made some of his travel writing available to nonsubscribers\u2014specifically \u201cMatthiessen\u2019s mesmerizing account of his journey, by ship, to the Amazon and throughout the wildernesses of South America.\u201d Tales of Faulkner in Hollywood: \u201c\u2018Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.\u2019 The 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