{"id":2802,"date":"2013-09-10T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnreview.barnesandnoble.com\/t5\/Discover-Great-New-Writers\/A-Librarian-s-Manifesto-A-Guest-Post-by-Eric-Lundgren\/ba-p\/11227"},"modified":"2013-09-10T18:00:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T18:00:25","slug":"a-librarians-manifesto-a-guest-post-by-eric-lundgren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/10\/a-librarians-manifesto-a-guest-post-by-eric-lundgren\/","title":{"rendered":"A Librarian&#8217;s Manifesto: A Guest Post by Eric Lundgren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were gobsmaked by Eric Lundgren&rsquo;s very clever, very witty, and slightly off-kilter debut novel, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-facades-eric-lundgren\/1114473958?ean=9781468306873\" ><strong>The Facades<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, in much the same way we were by Robin Sloan&rsquo;s 2012 Discover selection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/mr-penumbras-24-hour-bookstore-robin-sloan\/1108946314?ean=9781250037756\" ><em><strong>Mr. Penumbra&rsquo;s 24-Hour Bookstore<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.&nbsp;Sven Norberg&#8217;s wife is missing, and his search for clues about her disappearance brings him face to face with an underworld of librarians, music critics and mall workers that&#8217;s at once outrageous and familiar as he follows the trail deep into his odd Midwestern town. Lundgren riffs on libraries, librarians, and the genesis of his novel in a guest post on the Discover blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were gobsmaked by Eric Lundgren&rsquo;s very clever, very witty, and slightly off-kilter debut novel, The Facades, in much the same way we were by Robin Sloan&rsquo;s 2012 Discover selection, Mr. Penumbra&rsquo;s 24-Hour Bookstore.&nbsp;Sven Norberg&#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-2802","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\/2802"}],"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=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}