{"id":181,"date":"2008-04-20T11:15:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T16:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books\/?p=181"},"modified":"2008-04-20T11:15:54","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T16:15:54","slug":"novels-in-three-lines-by-flix-fnon-trans-luc-santenew-york-review-of-books-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/novels-in-three-lines-by-flix-fnon-trans-luc-santenew-york-review-of-books-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Novels in Three Lines by F\u00e9lix F\u00e9n\u00e9on, trans. Luc SanteNew York Review of Books, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this book in March but forgot to write about it at the time: it&#8217;s a collection of short news items by F\u00e9n\u00e9on, published anonymously in a French newspaper in 1906. They&#8217;re mostly police-blotter items, sometimes sad, sometimes funny, often worded in a clever or interesting way. On page 85, for example: &#8220;&#8221;M. Jules Kerzerho was president of a gymnastics club, and yet he was run over trying to jump into a streetcar in Rueil.&#8221; Or on page 99: &#8220;An unknown person painted the walls of the Pantin cemetery yellow; Dujardin wandered naked through Saint-Ouen-l&#8217;Aum\u00f4ne. Crazy people, apparently.&#8221; Exercises in concision and condensation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this book in March but forgot to write about it at the time: it&#8217;s a collection of short news items by F\u00e9n\u00e9on, published anonymously in a French newspaper in 1906. They&#8217;re mostly police-blotter items, sometimes sad, sometimes funny, often worded in a clever or interesting way. On page 85, for example: &#8220;&#8221;M. Jules [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}