{"id":381,"date":"2007-10-19T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/19\/carnage-in-the-book-world\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T05:00:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T13:00:59","slug":"carnage-in-the-book-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/whatever\/carnage-in-the-book-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnage in the book world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what Carole Cadwalladr, in the <em>Guardian, <\/em>is calling this year&#8217;s Frankfut Book Fair. Sounds about right (except that it misses the boredom element that is never quite absent at Frankfurt), and this is the best report from the fair that I&#8217;ve read so far. Click the excerpt to read the full article.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,,2190553,00.html\" title=\"frankfurt book fair\">Visit the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world&#8217;s largest literary marketplace, and you might think publishing is only vaguely about writers &#8211; next to the carousing, the deals, and the piled-up &#8216;product&#8217;. And then, there&#8217;s the fabulous gossip, this year centring on the shenanigans at PFD, Britain&#8217;s most prestigious &#8211; and troubled &#8211; literary agency . . .<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what Carole Cadwalladr, in the Guardian, is calling this year&#8217;s Frankfut Book Fair. Sounds about right (except that it misses the boredom element that is never quite&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}