{"id":2723,"date":"2013-08-09T17:22:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T17:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnreview.barnesandnoble.com\/t5\/In-the-Margin\/What-s-It-Like-for-a-Critic-to-Write-a-Novel-A-Guest-Post-by\/ba-p\/11112"},"modified":"2013-08-09T17:22:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T17:22:22","slug":"whats-it-like-for-a-critic-to-write-a-novel-a-guest-post-by-caleb-crain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/09\/whats-it-like-for-a-critic-to-write-a-novel-a-guest-post-by-caleb-crain-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s It Like for a Critic to Write a Novel? A Guest Post by Caleb Crain"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s lots to like in Caleb Crain’s marvelous debut novel, Necessary Errors<\/em><\/strong>. This is a coming-of-age story of exiles and expats finding freedom in post-Velvet Revolution Prague.  In elegant prose and with great tenderness, Crain captures all the messiness of twenty-something lives, where exuberance and idealism collide with expectations and indiscretions.<\/p>\n

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But Crain’s talent isn’t limited to writing novels; for years now, his journalism and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker<\/em>, The New York Review of Books<\/em>, The Nation<\/em>, The New York Times<\/em>, the London Review of Books<\/em>, The Paris Review Daily<\/em>, and n+1<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Which is why I had to ask: What’s it like to be a critic-turned-novelist<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s lots to like in Caleb Crain’s marvelous debut novel, Necessary Errors. This is a coming-of-age story of exiles and expats finding freedom in post-Velvet Revolution Prague.  In elegant prose and with great tenderness, Crain capt…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-contributed-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}