{"id":756,"date":"2011-02-28T06:35:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T00:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=756"},"modified":"2011-02-28T06:35:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T00:35:10","slug":"review-of-karen-russells-swamplandia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/02\/28\/review-of-karen-russells-swamplandia\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Karen Russell's "Swamplandia!""},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a url to my review of Karen Russell’s debut novel, Swamplandia!<\/em> that appeared in today’s Dallas Morning News<\/em>. It’s a good, fun read, not a great literary book, closer to a Young Adult novel than most reviews are acknowledging, such as Janet Maslin’s gusher in the NY Tiimes. It’s a book that wants to be loved\/lovable, in the “luminous” category, following the tradition of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones<\/em>, but with less violence.
\nhttp:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/entertainment\/books\/20110224-book-review-swamplandia-by-karen-russell.ece<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a url to my review of Karen Russell’s debut novel, Swamplandia! that appeared in today’s Dallas Morning News. It’s a good, fun read, not a great literary book, closer to a Young Adult novel than most reviews are acknowledging, … Continue reading →<\/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-756","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\/756","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=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}