{"id":750,"date":"2003-10-10T08:15:56","date_gmt":"2003-10-10T12:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=750"},"modified":"2003-10-10T08:15:56","modified_gmt":"2003-10-10T12:15:56","slug":"its-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And it&#8217;s beautiful. All you American readers, go and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/cup\/catalog\/data\/023113\/0231131461.HTM\">buy this book at once<\/a>. Columbia University Press have done a wonderful job on the worm, including illustrations, which Simon and Schuster never bothered with in the English edition. This is the best produced and published that I have ever been. Naturally, I can&#8217;t find the damn thing on Amazon.com. The cover is there, and the publisher is correct. But it appears <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0231131461\/qid=1065769738\/sr=1-12\/ref=sr_1_12\/002-4718736-8422405?v=glance&amp;s=books\">from their text<\/a> that I have co-written, with John Updike, a history of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.<\/p>\n\n<p>Perhaps there&#8217;s something in the AA catechism about this: &#8220;Have you ever woken one morning to discover you have written a book with John Updike? Has this happpened often?&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it&#8217;s beautiful. All you American readers, go and buy this book at once. Columbia University Press have done a wonderful job on the worm, including illustrations, which Simon and Schuster never bothered with in the English edition. This is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=750\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=750\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750"}],"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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}