{"id":5893,"date":"2012-02-20T22:10:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T22:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/?p=5893"},"modified":"2012-02-20T22:10:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T22:10:02","slug":"on-reading-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2012\/02\/20\/on-reading-better\/","title":{"rendered":"On reading better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I was thinking and writing about reading. (and technology) I just came across this quote from Zadie Smith in relation to critical reading with which I concur. One of the exciting things about publishing a novel is the opportunity to talk about reading, which actually interests me a great deal more than talking about the business and act of writing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think a good book review is a place to meet a book on its own<br \/>\nterms,\u201d said Smith, \u201cnot as an ideological vehicle or an academic<br \/>\nplaything. Often people think of writing as primary and reading as the<br \/>\nlesser art; in my life it\u2019s the other way around. When I write about<br \/>\nbooks I\u2019m trying to honor reading as a creative act: as far as I\u2019m<br \/>\nconcerned the job is not simply to describe an end product but to<br \/>\ndelineate a process, an intimate experience with a book which the<br \/>\ngeneral reader understands just as well as the professional critic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2010\/media\/zadie-smith-starts-books-column-harpers\">NY Observer<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I was thinking and writing about reading. (and technology) I just came across this quote from Zadie Smith in relation to critical reading with which I concur. One of the exciting things about publishing a novel is the opportunity to talk about reading, which actually interests me a great deal more than talking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[968,1337],"class_list":["post-5893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-reading","tag-zadie-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}