{"id":3152,"date":"2005-06-16T07:58:11","date_gmt":"2005-06-16T11:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2022-10-09T17:30:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T21:30:38","slug":"sylvia-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3152","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia Beach: &#8220;spicy books&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of biographical information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2631\">about her here<\/a>.  I wrote about her on her birthday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joyce was soon deriving a steady income from <i>Ulysses<\/i> in spite of the fact that it was denied its normal outlets in the English-speaking countries.  And, of course, its reputation as a banned book helped the sales.  It was saddening, however, to see such a work listed in catalogues of erotica alongside <i>Fanny Hill, The Perfumed Garden<\/i> and that everlasting Casanova, not to speak of plain pornography like <i>Raped on the Rail<\/i>.  An Irish priest, purchasing <i>Ulysses<\/i>, asked me, &#8216;Any other spicy books?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <i>Sylvia Beach<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of biographical information about her here. I wrote about her on her birthday. &#8220;Joyce was soon deriving a steady income from Ulysses in spite of the fact that it was denied its normal outlets in the English-speaking countries. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3152\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[567,566],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178503,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/178503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}