{"id":272956,"date":"2009-08-05T17:55:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T17:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/08\/05\/all-over-the-national-book-foundation-site-today\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:19:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:19:42","slug":"all-over-the-national-book-foundation-site-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/08\/05\/all-over-the-national-book-foundation-site-today\/","title":{"rendered":"All Over the National Book Foundation Site Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=2125\">the post about  <em>Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow<\/em>,<\/a> the National Book Foundation just posted a short appreciation I wrote of William Gaddis&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skylightbooks.com\/NASApp\/store\/Product?s=showproduct&amp;isbn=9780140187076\"><em>J R<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>J R<\/em>  is the perfect novel for our new recession-driven world. Similar to <em>Gravity\u2019s Rainbow<\/em> (which I wrote about earlier), this is another encyclopedic novel with dozens of characters, subplot upon subplot, quite literally overflowing with ideas, conversations, and detritus. And money. It\u2019s all about money.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At the heart of this comic masterpiece is an eleven-year-old boy named J R, who, with a bit of capitalist ingenuity and the help of his music teacher Edward Bast, builds a paper fortune out of surplus goods, common stock, and an unerring ability to game the system. It\u2019s a coming-of-age tale for the late-capitalist period of irrational exuberance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Of course, things fall apart in the end. Bast\u2014who dreams of becoming a composer\u2014loses his artistic mojo, and J R\u2019s paper empire is just that, and implodes like a house of cards. (Sound familiar?)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbafictionblog.org\/nba-winning-books-blog\/1976.html\">Click here<\/a> for the complete piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on the post about Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow, the National Book Foundation just posted a short appreciation I wrote of William Gaddis&#8217;s J R. J R is the perfect novel for our new recession-driven world. Similar to Gravity\u2019s Rainbow (which I wrote about earlier), this is another encyclopedic novel with dozens of characters, subplot upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[26516,6656,26526],"class_list":["post-272956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-j-r","tag-national-book-foundation","tag-william-gaddis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351606,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272956\/revisions\/351606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}