{"id":106,"date":"2014-08-11T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T17:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dylanlandis.com\/newsticker\/?p=106"},"modified":"2014-08-11T17:23:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T17:23:31","slug":"a-love-letter-from-kirkus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dylanlandis.com\/newsticker\/2014\/08\/11\/a-love-letter-from-kirkus\/","title":{"rendered":"A love letter from Kirkus!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><<In 14 linked stories (one of which won a 2014 O. Henry Prize), Landis shapes a mesmerizing portrait of a teenager in 1970s Greenwich Village.\n\nRainey Royal\u2019s life is wantonly glamorous, degenerate, sophisticated\u2014a lonely combination for a 14-year-old girl whose mother has run away to an ashram. She lives in the Village with her father, Howard, a renowned jazz musician whose acolytes fill their once-grand town house (chandeliers and Beidermeier chests are periodically sent to Sotheby\u2019s to keep the lights on and the drugs flowing). The acolytes are a nuisance\u2014they rummage through Rainey\u2019s things, use her bed, and the girls sleep with Howard\u2014but it's Gordy, Howard\u2019s best friend and accompanist, who causes Rainey shame and confusion when he sneaks into her room every night to stroke her hair...Seemingly on the verge of becoming a victim, Rainey is a predator, too\u2014to the gentler girls at school, to the young men hanging on Howard, and, in the best of the novel\u2019s sections, to a young couple she and Tina follow home and force into their apartment at gunpoint...Landis...a perceptive writer, has created a kind of scandalous beauty in her tale of the simultaneously fierce and vulnerable Rainey.>><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dylanlandis.com\/newsticker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dylanlandis.com\/newsticker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dylanlandis.com\/newsticker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dylanlandis.com\/newsticker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dylanlandis.com\/newsticker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dylanlandis.com\/newsticker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/www.dylanlandis.com\/newsticker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dylanlandis.com\/newsticker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dylanlandis.com\/newsticker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dylanlandis.com\/newsticker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}