{"id":1022,"date":"2005-10-24T13:59:39","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T17:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/24\/look-michiko\/"},"modified":"2005-10-24T13:59:39","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T17:59:39","slug":"look-michiko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/24\/look-michiko\/","title":{"rendered":"Look, Michiko, Just Write a Damn Novel Already"},"content":{"rendered":"

When NYT<\/I> book reviewer Michiko Kakutani took on the voice of Holden Caufield<\/A> two months ago to review Benjamin Kunkel’s Indecision<\/I>, we all sort of shook our heads politely. After all, longtime readers knew it was an intermittently recurring tic of hers—remember the time she pretended to be Ally McBeal reviewing Bridget Jones<\/I><\/A>?—and we just figured, okay, it’s out of her system for another year or so.<\/p>\n

But, no: It’s only been two months<\/I>, and she’s channeling Holly Golightly<\/A> to review Truman Capote’s resurrected Summer Morning<\/I>. Readers who dare follow this link will be forgiven the urge to claw out their own eyes in horror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When NYT book reviewer Michiko Kakutani took on the voice of Holden Caufield two months ago to review Benjamin Kunkel’s Indecision, we all sort of shook our heads politely. After all, longtime readers knew it was an intermittently recurring tic of hers—remember the time she pretended to be Ally McBeal reviewing Bridget Jones?—and we just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}