{"id":1186,"date":"2005-08-26T16:45:15","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T20:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/26\/here-comes-the-weekend\/"},"modified":"2005-08-26T16:45:15","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T20:45:15","slug":"here-comes-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/26\/here-comes-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><UL><LI><A href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/archives\/001501.html\">Two months ago<\/A>, I made note of the lengthy review Amazon had given Mackenzie Bezos&#8217; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/006075141X\"><I>The Testing of Luther Albright<\/I><\/A>. Since then, the first-time novelist&#8217;s gotten some excellent notices, from folks like <A href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9A07E3D8103CF934A3575BC0A9639C8B63&#038;n=Top%2fFeatures%2fBooks%2fBook%20Reviews\">Kate Bolick<\/A> of <I>NYTBR<\/I>, that don&#8217;t even mention her family connection to Amazon. The hometown paper isn&#8217;t so genteel: <I>Seattle Post-Intelligence<\/I> book man John Marshall <A href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/books\/238032_book26.html\">gets her talking<\/A> about that and her background in Princeton&#8217;s creative writing program&#8230;I&#8217;m going to have to see if Jennifer Weiner can give me some good gossip on that front!<\/p>\n<p><LI>Roxana Robinson wrote about &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/features\/booksmags\/chi-0508190315aug21,1,6491494.story?coll=chi-leisurebooks-hed&#038;ctrack=1&#038;cset=true\">women&#8217;s fiction<\/A>&#8221; in last Sunday&#8217;s <I>Chicago Tribune<\/I>, but the way she described romances and thrillers along the way rankled M. J. Rose, who <a href=\"http:\/\/mjroseblog.typepad.com\/buzz_balls_hype\/2005\/08\/in_search_of_ge.html\">made the case<\/A> for genre fiction, aiming to refute the idea that &#8220;thrillers are every bit as shallow as romances: They&#8217;re just as simplistic, just as formulaic and, just as often, poorly written.&#8221; I think the key there is &#8220;just as often,&#8221; which isn&#8217;t the same as &#8220;always.&#8221; And, I think, it&#8217;s time to let out the dirty little secret: so-called literary fiction can be just as simplistic, formulaic, and poorly written, too. I should know&#8211;I&#8217;m judging some for <A href=\"http:\/\/lbc.typepad.com\/blog\/\">the Litblog Co-op<\/A> this week!<\/p>\n<p><\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, I made note of the lengthy review Amazon had given Mackenzie Bezos&#8217; The Testing of Luther Albright. Since then, the first-time novelist&#8217;s gotten some excellent notices, from folks like Kate Bolick of NYTBR, that don&#8217;t even mention her family connection to Amazon. The hometown paper isn&#8217;t so genteel: Seattle Post-Intelligence book man [&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\/1186"}],"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=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}