{"id":1170,"date":"2009-01-07T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/01\/man-men-richard-yates-and-my-debut-in-kentucky.html"},"modified":"2009-01-07T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T21:36:00","slug":"man-men-richard-yates-and-my-debut-in-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/01\/man-men-richard-yates-and-my-debut-in-kentucky.html","title":{"rendered":"MAN MEN, RICHARD YATES AND MY DEBUT IN KENTUCKY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SW0ZBU23HTI\/AAAAAAAAABA\/dMcrFYHUcV4\/s1600-h\/50sXmas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SW0ZBU23HTI\/AAAAAAAAABA\/dMcrFYHUcV4\/s320\/50sXmas.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>&#8230;.here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/article\/20081226\/FEATURES\/812260313\">a piece<\/a> i wrote for my good friend david daley, who is an editor at the Louisville paper and runs the cool fiction site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivechapters.com\/\">&#8220;five chapters&#8221;<\/a> &#8230; he gave me chance to get into my love of overlooked aspects of the early postwar period&#8230; of course there is much else to say about those years. i wish i&#8217;d had room to get into the tradition of social criticism, on topics like alienation and &#8220;the cultural contradictions of capitalism&#8221; that were born in that period.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>speaking of, i rec all serious readers check out rich perlstein&#8217;s goldwater book, &#8220;before the storm,&#8221; when it is reissued this spring.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>if any of you shared a prosecco with me one New Year&#8217;s Eve you could see i was sporting what i call my &#8220;Mad Men tie.&#8221;\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/majamom\/320308918\/\">2<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.here is a piece i wrote for my good friend david daley, who is an editor at the Louisville paper and runs the cool fiction site &#8220;five chapters&#8221; &#8230; he gave me chance to get into my love of overlooked aspects of the early postwar period&#8230; of course there is much else to say about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[145,163,35,570],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-50s","7":"category-60s","8":"category-books","9":"category-yates","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}