{"id":2329,"date":"2008-08-27T09:55:58","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T13:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2008-08-27T09:55:58","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T13:55:58","slug":"sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sunshine","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s in the Arts+ section of The Official Newspaper of Gil Roth<\/a> today?<\/p>\n

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  1. a review of two biographies of Han van Meegeren<\/a>, the famous Dutch forger of paintings,<\/li>\n
  2. a review of Richard Todd’s essays on authenticity<\/a> (nice complement\/contrast to the forgery review),<\/li>\n
  3. a review of a biography of Jacob Riis<\/a>, the man who chronicled the horrors of tenement life in late 19th century Manhattan,<\/li>\n
  4. a review of a book on the New Urban Renewal and today’s gentrification<\/a>,<\/li>\n
  5. Otto Penzler’s review of Anton Chekhov’s crime fiction<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Sometimes I think their editors say to each other, “Remember that thing Gil was muttering to himself about in 1997, when he thought no one was listening? We should assign an article on that topic!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    What’s in the Arts+ section of The Official Newspaper of Gil Roth today? a review of two biographies of Han van Meegeren, the famous Dutch forger of paintings, a review of Richard Todd’s essays on authenticity (nice complement\/contrast to the forgery review), a review of a biography of Jacob Riis, the man who chronicled the … <\/p>\n

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Since they're not around individual posts, they don't make as much sense for Unrequired Reading: NYC Grid - a photoblog that chronicles a different block of Manhattan each day (discovered via Subtraction) Feinstein on the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Comic books & strips"","block_context":{"text":"Comic books & strips","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/comics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12871,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-360-otto-penzler","url_meta":{"origin":2329,"position":2},"title":"Episode 360 – Otto Penzler","author":"Gil","date":"February 2, 2020","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 360: Otto Penzler \u201cWriting is hard. I\u2019d rather do yard work than write. 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