{"id":130,"date":"2007-03-05T07:58:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T15:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/05\/were-in-trouble\/"},"modified":"2007-03-05T08:42:39","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T16:42:39","slug":"were-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/publishing\/were-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re in Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Eric and Kristen are in unfamiliar territory. They have only known one another a few weeks, but they have decided they are already deeply, madly in love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tha&#8217;s the way Christopher Coake&#8217;s collection of stories entitled <em>We&#8217;re in Trouble<\/em> begins. The collection has won Coake a deal of praise, and <em>Granta <\/em>seems to share this enthusiasm. It has named Coake one of the &#8220;best young U.S. novelists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s odd about this is that Coake &#8212; like six other of the young writers on the list &#8212; has never published a novel.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,,2027117,00.html?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=10\" title=\"Guardian article on Granta list\" target=\"_blank\">Granta nominates best young U.S. novelists, from the Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophercoake.com\/\" title=\"christopher coates's blog\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Coates&#8217;s blog <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophercoake.com\/\" title=\"christopher coates's blog\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric and Kristen are in unfamiliar territory. They have only known one another a few weeks, but they have decided they are already deeply, madly in love. Tha&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}