{"id":208,"date":"2015-09-04T10:20:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T14:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2015-09-04T10:20:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T14:20:50","slug":"the-starlight-line-by-matt-marshall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"The Starlight Line by Matt Marshall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Starlight L<a href=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/The-Starlight-Line.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-200\" alt=\"The Starlight Line\" src=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/The-Starlight-Line-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/The-Starlight-Line-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/The-Starlight-Line-683x1024.jpg 683w, http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/The-Starlight-Line.jpg 1801w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>ine, is a fascinating, complex, layer-cake of a book. The frame narra&#8230;tion is semi-autobiographical; the narrator is a frustrated writer from Cleveland, searching for inspiration. The other layers interpenetrate and enrich the frame story: Jack London\u2019s drug-addled wanderings; Trotsky\u2019s assassination in Mexico; a writer\u2019s search for Jack Kerouac\u2019s mysterious muse, Esperanza Villanueva. Marshall\u2019s skillful technique allows him to experiment with a variety of narrative voices that work like various instruments in a symphony. The voices add texture and depth to the story. In effect, Marshall produces a novel that is about the process of fiction writing itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u2014Philip J. Skerry, author of Dark Energy: Hitchcock\u2019s Absolute Camera and the Physics of Cinematic Spacetime and Psycho in the Shower: The History of Cinema\u2019s Most Famous Scene<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Starlight Line, is a fascinating, complex, layer-cake of a book. The frame narra&#8230;tion is semi-autobiographical; the narrator is a frustrated writer from Cleveland, searching for inspiration. The other layers interpenetrate and enrich the frame story: Jack London\u2019s drug-addled wanderings; Trotsky\u2019s assassination in Mexico; a writer\u2019s search for Jack Kerouac\u2019s mysterious muse, Esperanza Villanueva. Marshall\u2019s skillful technique allows him to experiment with a variety of narrative voices that work like various instruments in a symphony. The voices add texture and depth to the story. In effect, Marshall produces a novel that is about the process of fiction writing itself.&#8221; \u2014Philip J. Skerry, author of Dark Energy: Hitchcock\u2019s Absolute Camera and the Physics of Cinematic Spacetime and Psycho in the Shower: The History of Cinema\u2019s Most Famous Scene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/The-Starlight-Line.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}