{"id":2435,"date":"2007-02-18T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2007-02-18T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-18T20:16:00","slug":"2435","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2435","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/18\/books\/review\/Harrison-Sophie.html?ex=1329454800&#038;en=abcaaa405c5bb81f&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\" title=\"NY Times: The Content of His Characters\">Sophie Harrison on Paul Auster&#8217;s latest<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When his novels work, it&#8217;s because he successfully persuades us of the writer&#8217;s oldest trick: that his characters have somehow broken free of their creator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Travels in the Scriptorium<\/i>, she suggests, falls short of this. I have to read the short novel myself, but I do get the sense that Auster may be going through the motions somewhat. While I enjoyed both <i>Book of Illusions<\/i> and <i>Oracle Night<\/i>, two of his most recent novels, they did read a little like imitations of his earlier work &#8212; right down to his decision to set them in the same late &#8217;80s\/early &#8217;90s of the previous books.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophie Harrison on Paul Auster&#8217;s latest: When his novels work, it&#8217;s because he successfully persuades us of the writer&#8217;s oldest trick: that his characters have somehow broken free of their creator. Travels in the Scriptorium, she suggests, falls short of this. I have to read the short novel myself, but I do get the sense &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2435\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}