{"id":1938,"date":"2009-01-01T21:39:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T20:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2009-01-01T21:39:46","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T20:39:46","slug":"from-the-literary-magazines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1938","title":{"rendered":"From the literary magazines"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p>My new year treat has been to ignore all comments about atheism on the Guardian site. 320 at last count. Instead, I went for a long walk and caught up with the <span class=\"caps\">LRB<\/span> and <span class=\"caps\">TLS<\/span>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/classified\/\">personals <\/a>in the <span class=\"caps\">LRB<\/span> are wonderfully back on form. &#8220;I found yours&#8221;, my wife said, passing over the one that said &#8220;Everyone. My life is a mind-numbing cesspit of despair and self-loathing. Just fuck off. Or else write back and we&#8217;ll make love. Gentleman, 37.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\t<p>Doesn&#8217;t everyone lie about their age?<\/p>\n\n\t<p>But there were many other winners this week,and the most encouraging thing was that so many were short, including &#8220;<strong>I make my own sexual lubricant.<\/strong> The secret ingredient is Bovril. Man, 56. Congleton.&#8221; Is this down to the influence of twitter, of the credit crunch, or is it the beginning of a new literary movement?<\/p>\n\n\t<p>Over at the <span class=\"caps\">TLS<\/span> there is an interesting and moving piece about Mary Woolstonecraft&#8217;s suicide attempt and a really interesting-looking book of ghost stories but the moment that snapped my neck around came at the end of a long piece on Milton when I was assured that one essay was worth the price of a whole anthology. Uh, OK: 288 pages, binding unspecified but probably hardback &ndash; &#163;50. By some measure that qualifies as the most enthusiastic review I have ever read.<\/p>\n\n\t<p>Happy New Year to all of you.&#160; And I know I owe Mrs T a piece about Franco.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t<p>My new year treat has been to ignore all comments about atheism on the Guardian site. 320 at last count. Instead, I went for a long walk and caught up with the <span class=\"caps\">LRB<\/span> and <span class=\"caps\">TLS<\/span>. The personals in the <span class=\"caps\">LRB <\/span>&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1938\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1940,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}