{"id":143,"date":"2009-03-15T15:07:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-15T20:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/15\/john-wray-lowboy\/"},"modified":"2009-03-15T15:07:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T20:07:39","slug":"john-wray-lowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/15\/john-wray-lowboy\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wray: Looking Back at Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City section of this weekend&#8217;s <i>New York Times<\/i> features an essay by novelist John Wray about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/15\/nyregion\/thecity\/15quar.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">the time he lived in a DUMBO warehouse<\/a>. He&#8217;d told me a little bit about that experience when <a href=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/interview-john-wray\/\">I interviewed him back in 2001<\/a>, because it was during that time that he wrote his debut novel, <i>The Right Hand of Sleep<\/i>, but the <i>Times<\/i> essay goes into greater detail, and also goes into his friendship with Mr. Toast, a neighbor of sorts who lived &#8220;in a late-model Hyundai Excel that he parked in a vacant lot next to the East River&#8221; and taught Wray the lay of the land.<\/p>\n<p>Wray&#8217;s third novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0374194165\"><i>Lowboy<\/i><\/a>, was published earlier this month, and last week he marked the occasion with a reading on the New York subway&#8212;the L train to Williamsburg, on the way to a more traditional reading\/party. To promote the event, his publishers took a copy of <i>Lowboy<\/i> onto the subway and invited other people to read from it. (Wray&#8217;s the one who opens the video.)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SWtpfyEAbGU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SWtpfyEAbGU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City section of this weekend&#8217;s New York Times features an essay by novelist John Wray about the time he lived in a DUMBO warehouse. He&#8217;d told me a little bit about that experience when I interviewed him back in 2001, because it was during that time that he wrote his debut novel, The Right [&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\/143"}],"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=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}