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When the cat’s away (at a free lesson from a culinary institute) the mice will play (by reading an old Grove Press edition of Tropic of Cancer<\/a>\"\" in honor of the recent death of publishing legend Barney Rosset<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"Tropic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the cat’s away (at a free lesson from a culinary institute) the mice will play (by reading an old Grove Press edition of Tropic of Cancer in honor of the recent death of publishing legend Barney Rosset).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[491,886],"class_list":["post-6296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-barney-rosset","tag-henry-miller"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-1Dy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3069,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-dec-19-2008","url_meta":{"origin":6296,"position":0},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Dec. 19, 2008","author":"Gil","date":"December 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been working pretty hard this week at laying out our annual directory. 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