{"id":26,"date":"2005-11-15T10:16:04","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T14:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/?p=26"},"modified":"2005-11-15T10:16:04","modified_gmt":"2005-11-15T14:16:04","slug":"my-first-literary-crush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"My First Literary Crush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2130198\/\">The books famous people loved in college.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thoroughly entertaining comments by a variety of writers and journalists and TV writers, some fiction, some non-fiction. My own college literary crush was James Joyce, who was the subject of a survey course I took my freshman year. I ended up working as a teaching assistant for the professor, and read not only all of Joyce that year (except Finnegan&#8217;s Wake, of course), but Richard Ellman&#8217;s incredible biography and much writing about myth and language by people I found in the library stacks, like James George Frazer, Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Claude Levi-Strauss, and Ernst Cassirer. Back then I believed Ulysses to be the greater book, but Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to be the more important (because it was, like, readable by everyone). That&#8217;s silly, but in hindsight all that reading gave me the confidence that I could tackle any subject if I put my mind to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The books famous people loved in college. Thoroughly entertaining comments by a variety of writers and journalists and TV writers, some fiction, some non-fiction. My own college literary crush was James Joyce, who was the subject of a survey course I took my freshman year. I ended up working as a teaching assistant for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booknoise.net\/survivor\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}