{"id":551,"date":"2010-04-06T00:13:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T04:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/06\/adam-langer-book-trailer\/"},"modified":"2010-04-06T00:13:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T04:13:09","slug":"adam-langer-book-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/06\/adam-langer-book-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;ve Always Been a Sucker for a Good Story&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a little over two years since I began my sideline in literary event hosting with <a href=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/11\/adam-langer-strand\/\">a reception for Adam Langer<\/a> upon the publication of <i>Ellington Boulevard<\/i>. Yesterday I was sent a URL for the promotional trailer for his next novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/1400068916\"><i>The Thieves of Manhattan<\/i><\/a>, which is coming out this summer, and I couldn&#8217;t wait to share it with you. Any of you who followed my career at <i>GalleyCat<\/i>, or are simply aware of certain scandals within the publishing industry over the last four years, will be rather amused by the central conceit.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/y1xs4bHFMK8&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/y1xs4bHFMK8&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s put it this way: The novel has blurbs from Laura Albert <i>and<\/i> Clifford Irving&#8212;I&#8217;ve got the galley on my desk, and even though pub date is still three months off, it&#8217;s moved about six slots up my to-do list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a little over two years since I began my sideline in literary event hosting with a reception for Adam Langer upon the publication of Ellington Boulevard. Yesterday I was sent a URL for the promotional trailer for his next novel, The Thieves of Manhattan, which is coming out this summer, and I couldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551"}],"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=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}