{"id":288,"date":"2003-05-29T12:46:20","date_gmt":"2003-05-29T12:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=288"},"modified":"2003-05-29T12:46:20","modified_gmt":"2003-05-29T12:46:20","slug":"the-return-of-the-genre-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/288","title":{"rendered":"The return of the genre magazine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0941964558\/qid%3D1054228247\/sr%3D11-1\/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1\/002-0891390-9775248\"><i>Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/140003339X\/qid=1054228158\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_1\/002-0891390-9775248?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\"><i>The McSweeney&#8217;s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales,<\/i><\/a> I&#8217;m wondering if we&#8217;re seeing a literary resurgence towards &#8220;genre&#8221; fiction.  One can only hope &#150; a swing away from the midlife-crisis-on-paper school of literature can only be healthy.  That, and there&#8217;s a real shortage of good, literary genre magazines out there.  For those of us with a taste for the slightly fantastic, it&#8217;s difficult to find places to break into the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between Conjunctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists and The McSweeney&#8217;s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, I&#8217;m wondering if we&#8217;re seeing a literary resurgence towards &#8220;genre&#8221; fiction. One can only hope &#150; a swing away from the midlife-crisis-on-paper school of literature can only be healthy. That, and there&#8217;s a real shortage of good, literary genre magazines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-4E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}