{"id":2855,"date":"2010-09-30T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2010-10-01T13:18:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T17:18:50","slug":"novel-set-in-watertown-ny-reviewed-in-nytimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/09\/30\/novel-set-in-watertown-ny-reviewed-in-nytimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel set in Watertown NY reviewed in NYTimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip to an NCPR fan in New York City for pointing out that Janet Maslin is reviewing &#8220;Exley&#8221; in today&#8217;s New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Brock Clarke&#8217;s new novel is set in Watertown and it circles around another Watertown novel, Frederick Exley&#8217;s &#8220;A Fan&#8217;s Notes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/30\/books\/30book.html?_r=1&amp;ref=books\">This from Maslin&#8217;s review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For anyone who knows the true story of Exley\u2019s life (and this book uses Jonathan Yardley, the book critic who was Exley&#8217;s biographer, as a character who appears in Watertown to supply Miller with factual  information), the unlikelihood of finding him is awfully high.<\/p>\n<p>But  \u201cExley\u201d isn\u2019t about discovering truth; it\u2019s about Miller\u2019s creating the  fictions he needs to believe in and then clinging to them despite all  evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>He believes in Exley so fervently that he  keeps finding Exley stand-ins all over Watertown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clarke teaches at the University of Cincinnati.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/brockclarke.com\/bio\/\">For more about him, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hat tip to an NCPR fan in New York City for pointing out that Janet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[52,878],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2856,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions\/2856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}