{"id":2748,"date":"2013-08-13T20:57:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T20:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnreview.barnesandnoble.com\/t5\/Discover-Great-New-Writers\/On-Baseball-and-Distraction-A-Guest-Post-by-Justin-St-Germain\/ba-p\/11118"},"modified":"2013-08-13T20:57:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T20:57:56","slug":"on-baseball-and-distraction-a-guest-post-by-justin-st-germain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/13\/on-baseball-and-distraction-a-guest-post-by-justin-st-germain\/","title":{"rendered":"On Baseball and Distraction: A Guest Post by Justin St. Germain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We see a lot of memoirs in the Discover reading room, but it&rsquo;s only the truly great ones, like <em><strong>Wave <\/strong><\/em>and <em><strong>This Boy&rsquo;s Life<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>The Liar&rsquo;s Club<\/strong><\/em>, <strong><em>The Tender Bar<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em>and <em><strong>Wild<\/strong><\/em>, with their electric prose, keen-eyed observations, and undercurrents of grief &ndash; sometimes elegiac, sometimes open and messy, often stultifying &ndash; that makes the hair stand up on the back of readers&rsquo; necks. The raw, relentless honesty and emotional resonance of those earlier Discover picks echo in Justin St. Germain&rsquo;s&nbsp; <em><strong>Son of a Gun<\/strong><\/em>.&nbsp; He talks about baseball and grief in a guest post on the Discover blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We see a lot of memoirs in the Discover reading room, but it&rsquo;s only the truly great ones, like Wave and This Boy&rsquo;s Life, The Liar&rsquo;s Club, The Tender Bar, and Wild, with their electric prose, keen-eyed observations, and undercurrents o&#8230;<\/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-2748","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\/2748"}],"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=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}