{"id":287,"date":"2006-12-06T13:40:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T13:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:32:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:32:54","slug":"new-york-times-10-best-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/06\/new-york-times-10-best-books\/","title":{"rendered":"new york times 10 best books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times just released it&#8217;s 10 Best Books List &#8211; You can check out the top 100 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/books\/review\/20061203notable-books.html?ref=books&#038;pagewanted=print\" target=_blank>here<\/a>.  I&#8217;ll just touch on the fiction selections because there&#8217;s bound to be something political on that other &#8216;non&#8217; one and to be quite honest, I don&#8217;t have the stomach for it today &#8211; am fighting nausea as we speak, bit of a bug and all.  <\/p>\n<p>The five authors lucky enough to find themselves in this enviable position? The lovely <strong>Marisha Pessl<\/strong> for one.  Her freshman effort, the hefty Nabokovian construction &#8220;Special Topics in Calamity Physics&#8221; finds itself alongside Richard Ford and &#8220;The Lay of the Land&#8221;.   No surprise Amy Hempel is there with her short story collection &#8211; The Times loves her.   Then there&#8217;s Gary Shteyngart and &#8220;Absurdistan&#8221; which I wont be picking up &#8211; I&#8217;ve had enough of Borat this year.  (Still funny though.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/books\/review\/20061210tenbestbooks.html?ref=review\" target=_blank>New York Times 10 Best Books of 2006<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times just released it&#8217;s 10 Best Books List &#8211; You can check out the top 100 here. I&#8217;ll just touch on the fiction selections because there&#8217;s bound to be something political on that other &#8216;non&#8217; one and to be quite honest, I don&#8217;t have the stomach for it today &#8211; am fighting<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}