{"id":2394,"date":"2009-03-11T23:31:16","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T03:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2009-03-11T23:31:16","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T03:31:16","slug":"sf-writers-say-smart-things-irvine-on-literary-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/11\/sf-writers-say-smart-things-irvine-on-literary-taste\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Writers Say Smart Things: Irvine On Literary Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have very nearly succeeded in turning reading–that most active of cultural activities–into a passive extension of mass media.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alex Irvine takes a quick swing<\/a> at the kind of literature produced when about half of potential writers don’t read for pleasure.<\/p>\n

I actually wanted to quote the whole second paragraph, but since the post was only two paragraphs long, that seemed excessive.<\/p>\n

(I’ll be buying Irvine’s next book<\/a> for sure. I was quite pleased with some<\/a> of<\/a> his earlier<\/a> novels<\/a> and<\/a> stories<\/a>. Plus I know he’s the kind of guy who made homemade pyrobombs as a kid–something we bonded about during a chat at a convention one time–and you know that’s the sign of a good novelist.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have very nearly succeeded in turning reading–that most active of cultural activities–into a passive extension of mass media. Alex Irvine takes a quick swing at the kind of literature produced when about half of potential writers don’t read for pleasure. I actually wanted to quote the whole second paragraph, but since the post was only two paragraphs long, that… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[334,157,158],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-say-smart-things","tag-author","tag-smart-things","tag-the-masses","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-CC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}