{"id":955,"date":"2014-06-12T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T03:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/?p=955"},"modified":"2014-06-12T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T03:51:07","slug":"new-wakefieldians-and-thursday-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/2014\/06\/new-wakefieldians-and-thursday-links\/","title":{"rendered":"New Wakefieldians and Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to an\u00a0awesome\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.australiacouncil.gov.au\/\">Oz Co<\/a> grant, we now have an ebook expert in residence for the next three months. Or, as we like to say: Simon is in the house!<\/p>\n<p>We like this one. As well as being a general ebook Grand Master, he&#8217;s also an avid reader and <a href=\"http:\/\/necessaryfiction.com\/reviews\/TheBestBookintheWorldbyPeterStjernstroemtranslatedbyRodBradbury\">reviewer<\/a>, and an on-the-side <a href=\"http:\/\/theliftedbrow.com\/\">Brow Lifter<\/a> (online editor).<\/p>\n<p>He also finds the best articles on interesting book-related things.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to today&#8217;s links!<\/p>\n<p>We have an awesome, <em>awesome<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2014\/jun\/10\/reading-struggle\/\">article<\/a> on the struggle to read from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/?insrc=log\">New York Review of Books<\/a><\/em>. It&#8217;s a great piece on the way that we read today, and how it affects the way we write. Cheers for this Simon!<\/p>\n<p>Second up is associated: an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2014\/05\/trigger-warnings-and-the-novelists-mind.html\">article<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/\"><em>New Yorker<\/em><\/a>, on the proposed trigger warnings for students of literature, and the kind of impact that could have on readers. Another fascinating piece on\u00a0the act of reading \u2013 something we&#8217;re pretty keen on exploring over here.<\/p>\n<p>Third up is not a link, but an apology from me. Two\u00a0New York-centric articles in one blog post? Not good enough!<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, to localise things a bit, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldennorth.com.au\/about-us\/golden-north-history\/\">the interactive timeline for Golden North Ice Cream&#8217;s history<\/a>. Just to continue with the Laura theme from yesterday. Also because it&#8217;s damn cool. Also also because I think we need more ice cream in this office. Whatever the weather.<\/p>\n<p>Also also ALSO &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/product.php?productid=1112&amp;cat=0&amp;page=1\">this one<\/a>&#8216;s back in stock guys!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/product.php?productid=1112&amp;cat=0&amp;page=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/files\/newsletters\/naturesline.jpg?resize=437%2C634\" alt=\"Nature's Line\" width=\"437\" height=\"634\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Better be quick!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to an\u00a0awesome\u00a0Oz Co grant, we now have an ebook expert in residence for the next three months. Or, as we like to say: Simon is in the house! We like this one. As well as being a general ebook &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/2014\/06\/new-wakefieldians-and-thursday-links\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[231,234,60,62,233,232,230],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-fun","tag-geek-in-residence","tag-golden-north-ice-cream","tag-janis-sheldrick","tag-natures-line","tag-new-york-review-of-books","tag-new-yorker","tag-simon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4v1Of-fp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakefieldpress.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}