{"id":262506,"date":"2008-06-03T16:44:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T16:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/06\/03\/believer-book-award\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:32:09","slug":"believer-book-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/06\/03\/believer-book-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Believer Book Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the neverending recap of <span class=\"caps\">BEA<\/span>, today seems to be a day of award news . . . <\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Tom McCarthy won the fourth annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.believermag.com\/issues\/200806\/?read=believer_book_award\"><i>Believer<\/i> Book Award<\/a>  for his novel <i>Remainder.<\/i> (One of my favorite books of the past few years.)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the most intense, clear memory you have?\u201d asks the narrator of Tom McCarthy\u2019s <i>Remainder.<\/i> \u201cThe one you can see even if you close your eyes\u2014really see, clear as in a vision?\u201d Dispensing with Proustian reminiscence, McCarthy brazenly assumes the role of conceptual artist and literally reconstructs moments of time. In the same way that Robbe-Grillet\u2019s <i>Jealousy<\/i> tells its story through architecture in book form, <i>Remainder<\/i> is an art installation disguised as a brilliant novel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the neverending recap of BEA, today seems to be a day of award news . . . Specifically, Tom McCarthy won the fourth annual Believer Book Award for his novel Remainder. (One of my favorite books of the past few years.) \u201cWhat\u2019s the most intense, clear memory you have?\u201d asks the narrator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[12026,1836,12576,786],"class_list":["post-262506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-believer-book-award","tag-cwp","tag-remainder","tag-tom-mccarthy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357996,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262506\/revisions\/357996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}