{"id":2198,"date":"2011-01-05T19:38:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T00:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:32:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:32:49","slug":"book-beat-reading-group-january-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2011\/01\/05\/book-beat-reading-group-january-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Beat Reading Group Febuary Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/walser0007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2199\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"walser0007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/walser0007-460x641.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a>The Book Beat Reading Group will not be meeting in January.\u00a0 <strong><em>The Tanners<\/em><\/strong> by <strong>Robert Walser<\/strong> will be the book discussion for the month of February.\u00a0 We will be meeting on <strong>Wednesday, February 23rd @ 7:00 p.m<\/strong>. at the <strong>Goldfish Teahouse<\/strong>, 117 W. Fourth Street in Downtown Royal Oak. All are welcome.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Century Gothic,Verdana,Arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">\u201cA clairvoyant   of the small\u201d W. G. Sebald calls Robert Walser, one of his favorite writers             in the world, in his acutely beautiful, personal, and long introduction,             studded with his signature use of photographs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incredible shrinking writer is a major twentieth-century prose artist   who\u2026can be placed in that comic tradition [that] runs from Gogol through Kafka   and down to Jos\u00e9 Saramago . . . . When Walser met Lenin in Zurich during the   war, all he had to say was \u2018So you, too, like fruitcake?\u2019 . . . It is remarkable   to see what variety and richness what easiness and charm, what winsome inanities   and philosophical depths he could pack into half a page.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Benjamin Kunkel, <em>The New Yorker<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Book Beat Reading Group will not be meeting in January.&nbsp; The Tanners by Robert Walser will be the book discussion for the month of February.&nbsp; We will be meeting on Wednesday, February 23rd @ 7:00 p.m. at the Goldfish Teahouse, 117 W. Fourth Street in Downtown Royal Oak. All are welcome. &ldquo;A clairvoyant of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookbeat-shop-history","category-reading-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}