{"id":836,"date":"2005-11-10T13:48:29","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T18:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=836"},"modified":"2005-11-10T13:48:29","modified_gmt":"2005-11-10T18:48:29","slug":"jones-on-blooker-in-nando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/jones-on-blooker-in-nando\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones on Blooker in NandO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what appears to be a play to get an article mentioning me in every section of the <a href=\"http:\/\/newsobserver.com\">News and Observer<\/a> during the months of October and November, I just completed an interview with Roger van der Horst about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulublookerprize.com\/\">the Blooker prize.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I talked about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umd.umich.edu\/casl\/hum\/eng\/classes\/434\/geweb\/THEHISTO.htm\">Charles Dickens as the most respected English serial novelist<\/a> and about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/031610969X\/0\">Julie and Julia: 365 days, 524 recipes, 1 tiny appartment kitchen<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.salon.com\/0001399\/\">Julia Powell<\/a> as an example of a good blook. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreilly.com\/catalog\/jag\/\">Wil Wheaton&#8217;s Just a Geek<\/a> personal memoir and <a href=\"http:\/\/longtail.typepad.com\/\">Chris Anderson&#8217;s Long Tail<\/a> a book on economics and technology that is forthcoming are two others.<\/p>\n<p>However I expect and hope to be surprised by what we will be reading among the finalists. Blooks create an open environment for writing &#8212; one that as a poet I would not likely participate in although I have been publishing a potential chapbook project in the News and Observer a poem at a time &#8212; that allows interaction with readers as critics as well as enforcing a discipline of regular writing that new writers need. The form also allows for digressive and unusual inclusions which could make for some new styles of writing.<\/p>\n<p>That said I expect to be reading good writing. Good sentences and paragraphs. Well-told tales. The stuff you would expect in any book prize finalist.<\/p>\n<p>I am holding off on several sections of the News and Observer. The Obits for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what appears to be a play to get an article mentioning me in every section of the News and Observer during the months of October and November, I just completed an interview with Roger van der Horst about the Blooker prize. I talked about Charles Dickens as the most respected English serial novelist and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","category-literature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}