{"id":1076,"date":"2005-09-18T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/18\/quickly-noted\/"},"modified":"2005-09-18T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T01:57:00","slug":"quickly-noted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/18\/quickly-noted\/","title":{"rendered":"Quickly Noted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rushdie.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/rushdie.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/>Keith Gessen of <I>New York<\/I> gets to <A href=\"http:\/\/newyorkmetro.com\/nymetro\/arts\/books\/14277\/\">hang out with Salman Rushdie<\/A> at Yankee Stadium, where they spend as much time talking about the Yankees&#8217; pitching depth as they do Indian literature. Sometimes in tandem: &#8220;I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think you&#8217;d find <A href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/2005\/08\/07\/books\/review\/07DONADIO.html?ex=1280721600&#038;en=1377cceb705aec77&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">Sir Vidia<\/A> at a baseball game, do you? I don&#8217;t think sports are one of his interests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jeffrey Trachtenberg files a story for the <I>Wall Street Journal<\/I> on <A href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/0,,SB112690383542643315-7Ky2nSHyTfabRvKW8CLpC9cipu0_20060917,00.html?mod=blogs\">the bumper crop of Iraq War memoirs<\/A>. John Crawford and Kayla Williams have already gotten plenty of attention, of course, but the mini-genre heats up in October with releases by Colby Buzzell, Jason Christopher Hartley, and Nathaniel Fick. (Remember that I called Fick&#8217;s <I>One Bullet Away<\/I> &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/archives\/001664.html\">the best memoir I&#8217;ve read in at least a year<\/A>.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\">photo: Paolo Pelegrin\/Magnum<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Gessen of New York gets to hang out with Salman Rushdie at Yankee Stadium, where they spend as much time talking about the Yankees&#8217; pitching depth as they do Indian literature. Sometimes in tandem: &#8220;I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think you&#8217;d find Sir Vidia at a baseball game, do you? I don&#8217;t think sports are one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076"}],"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=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}