{"id":10934,"date":"2018-06-22T15:32:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T19:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10934"},"modified":"2018-06-22T15:32:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T19:32:32","slug":"found-in-anthologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10934","title":{"rendered":"Found in Anthologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Wilson writes about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2018\/06\/among-the-dangs\">couple story anthologies<\/a>\u00a0rescued from a library trash heap:\u00a0\u00a0<em>Fiction of the Fifties: A Decade of American Writing<\/em>\u00a0(1959), edited by Herbert Gold; and\u00a0<em>Stories from the Sixties<\/em>\u00a0(1971), edited by Stanley Elkin. He points out some differences and quotes from their introductory essays, but one thing unites them.\u00a0&#8220;Both of these volumes are haunted by an absence. They are, with a few exceptions, radically secular.&#8221; But Wilson recommends one stand out story, which I see is the title of an anthology of its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Wilson writes about a couple story anthologies\u00a0rescued from a library trash heap:\u00a0\u00a0Fiction of the Fifties: A Decade of American Writing\u00a0(1959), edited by Herbert Gold; and\u00a0Stories from the Sixties\u00a0(1971), edited by Stanley Elkin. He points out some differences and quotes from their introductory essays, but one thing unites them.\u00a0&#8220;Both of these volumes are haunted by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10934\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Found in Anthologies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[1494,2572],"class_list":["post-10934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-john-wilson","tag-short-stories"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}