{"id":743,"date":"2011-02-11T20:38:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T14:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=743"},"modified":"2011-02-11T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T14:38:09","slug":"j-d-salinger-bio-sounds-good-and-a-writers-party-in-austin-circa-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/11\/j-d-salinger-bio-sounds-good-and-a-writers-party-in-austin-circa-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"J. D. Salinger Bio Sounds Good, and a Writers Party in Austin, circa 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So back in 2006 I was at an opulent writers&#8217; party, a post-event thing at the Texas Book Festival, standing next to Frank McCourt and Maureen Down, Richard Ford and Jay McInerny, who today is reviewing a new biography of J.D. Salinger, here: http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/13\/books\/review\/McInerney-t.html?hp<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve always liked Salinger and admired his reclusiveness. This sounds like a good read. But back to that party in Austin: My best friend picked up a bottle of wine from somewhere (of course it was all free, great food and drink) and was heading upstairs with it, to hang out on the roof, and a caterer person asked him to leave the bottles on the tables please. He kind of slunk away, telling me later he felt like Ratso Rizzo in <em>Midnight Cowboy<\/em>, in the Andy Warhol&#8217;s Factory party scene, where he&#8217;s stuffing the sandwiches in his coat, and the woman tells him, &#8220;You don&#8217;t need to steal them, they&#8217;re free.&#8221;\u00a0My other friend (female) tried to pinch Richard Ford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So back in 2006 I was at an opulent writers&#8217; party, a post-event thing at the Texas Book Festival, standing next to Frank McCourt and Maureen Down, Richard Ford and Jay McInerny, who today is reviewing a new biography of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/11\/j-d-salinger-bio-sounds-good-and-a-writers-party-in-austin-circa-2006\/\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}