{"id":971,"date":"2005-11-18T20:26:27","date_gmt":"2005-11-19T00:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/18\/interview-roundup-sgt-rock\/"},"modified":"2010-11-27T20:30:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-28T00:30:05","slug":"interview-roundup-sgt-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/11\/18\/interview-roundup-sgt-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Roundup: Sgt. Rock Is Going to Help Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><UL><LI>&#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.newsarama.com\/images\/interviews\/2005\/kubert\/JoeKubert.htm\">Living legend of comics<\/A>&#8221; Joe Kubert talks about the new <I>Sgt. Rock<\/I> story he&#8217;s writing for DC&#8212;and why his graphic novel <I>Jew Gangster<\/I> ended up with iBooks. Excerpts from both books are included.<\/p>\n<p><LI>&#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleweekly.com\/features\/0546\/051116_arts_raban.php\">Seattle&#8217;s best writer&#8230; is an Englishman<\/A>&#8221; is the front-page headline trumpeting the <I>Seattle Weekly<\/I> interview with Jonathan Raban, admiringly described as &#8220;a backwater media critic chronically sought out by media monoliths&#8221; though, as former Amazon editor James Marcus points out in the piece, &#8220;he transcends the regional-writer rubric the way Faulkner did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><LI><A href=\"http:\/\/www.bookmunch.co.uk\/view.php?id=1623\">UK readers discover Sara Gran<\/A>, who spills some of the beans regarding her new novel, <I>Dope<\/I>. Sara&#8217;s recently <A href=\"http:\/\/saragran.blogspot.com\/\">started a blog<\/A>, too, where she writes about everything from reading Charles Portis to volunteering with the ASPCA in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p><LI>The American Booksellers Association&#8217;s <I>Bookselling This Week<\/I> gets personal with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bookweb.org\/3991.html\">Laila Lalami<\/A>, who admits that she moved to Portland for <A href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\">Powells<\/A>. Hey, don&#8217;t think the Beatrices haven&#8217;t considered it, too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Living legend of comics&#8221; Joe Kubert talks about the new Sgt. Rock story he&#8217;s writing for DC&#8212;and why his graphic novel Jew Gangster ended up with iBooks. Excerpts from both books are included. &#8220;Seattle&#8217;s best writer&#8230; is an Englishman&#8221; is the front-page headline trumpeting the Seattle Weekly interview with Jonathan Raban, admiringly described as &#8220;a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971"}],"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=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}