{"id":31230,"date":"2022-06-29T13:29:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/elif-batumans-new-campus-novel-feels-like-a-guidebook#id32067"},"modified":"2022-06-29T13:29:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T13:29:05","slug":"elif-batumans-new-campus-novel-feels-like-a-guidebook-to-being-inside-a-body-newly-being-touched-and-touching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/elif-batumans-new-campus-novel-feels-like-a-guidebook-to-being-inside-a-body-newly-being-touched-and-touching\/","title":{"rendered":"Elif Batuman\u2019s new campus novel feels like a guidebook to being \u201cinside a body newly being touched, and touching.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The fiction of Batuman&rsquo;s fiction is that novels are dangerous because people like Selin read them as a guide to the future. But as Batuman (and her novel) know full well, fictions offer a way for both writers and readers to understand their pasts, not their futures.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/the-paper\/v44\/n13\/clair-wills\/what-s-the-doofus-for\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The London Review of Books<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/elif-batumans-new-campus-novel-feels-like-a-guidebook\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        The fiction of Batuman&rsquo;s fiction is that novels are dangerous because people like Selin read them as a guide to the future. But as Batuman (and her novel) know full well, fictions offer a way for both writers and re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31231,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31230\/revisions\/31231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}