{"id":282176,"date":"2011-02-09T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/02\/09\/im-all-in-in-a-very-big-way\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:28:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:28:18","slug":"im-all-in-in-a-very-big-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/02\/09\/im-all-in-in-a-very-big-way\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#39;m All in in a Very Big Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my all-time favorite books is Georges Perec&#8217;s <em>Life: A User&#8217;s Manual<\/em>, and for <del>months<\/del> years, I&#8217;ve been meaning to reread it. <\/p>\n<p>Well, starting sometime soon, Conversational Reading will be hosting a <a href=\"http:\/\/conversationalreading.com\/spring-2011-big-read-life-a-users-manual\">Big Read<\/a> of Perec&#8217;s classic novel.<\/p>\n<p>No real info up there yet, but as soon as the schedule is announced, I&#8217;ll post it here. It&#8217;s been ages since I participated in an online book club, and I&#8217;m a bit psyched . . . Mostly just to reread <em>Life<\/em>, but also because Scott does such a great job of getting interesting content about the title under discussion. (I&#8217;m not-so-secretly hoping to contribute something myself.)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in joining in, be sure and get a copy of Godine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godine.com\/isbn.asp?isbn=1567923739\">revised edition<\/a> of the book. This version contains some corrections, etc. <\/p>\n<p>For more info about the new edition, and Perec in general, be sure to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/conversationalreading.com\/publishing-georges-perec\">this interview<\/a> Scott conducted with Godine editor Susan Barba.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/19-maier\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/459.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my all-time favorite books is Georges Perec&#8217;s Life: A User&#8217;s Manual, and for months years, I&#8217;ve been meaning to reread it. Well, starting sometime soon, Conversational Reading will be hosting a Big Read of Perec&#8217;s classic novel. No real info up there yet, but as soon as the schedule is announced, I&#8217;ll post [&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":[426,12286,29996,3426,12266,27176,416,38206],"class_list":["post-282176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-conversational-reading","tag-david-bellos","tag-david-r-godine","tag-french-literature","tag-georges-perec","tag-life-a-users-manual","tag-scott-esposito","tag-susan-barba"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282176","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=282176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346056,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282176\/revisions\/346056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}