{"id":1946,"date":"2014-07-14T10:08:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T17:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2014-07-14T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T17:08:08","slug":"tom-perrottas-the-leftovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/07\/tom-perrottas-the-leftovers.html","title":{"rendered":"Tom Perrotta&#8217;s &#8220;The Leftovers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;MrCO2VFKSM6GvoqcLDS6xaupSfsgna7y&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>RECENTLY I spoke to the author of the novel HBO has adapted into a Sunday-night series. Both the novel and the show concern a small town from which a small but significant number of people have mysteriously vanished; most of the storytelling concern the way people deal in various &#8212; and variously conflicting ways &#8212; with the loss. And as you may&#8217;ve picked up, if you&#8217;ve seen the show, the series has a different &#8212; much grimmer &#8212; tone than the novel.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/The_Leftovers_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1947\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/The_Leftovers_cover.jpg\" alt=\"The_Leftovers_cover\" width=\"180\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ST on The Leftovers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/07\/08\/tom_perrotta_my_protagonist_was_too_nice_a_guy_for_a_dark_tentpole_drama_on_sunday_nights\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> is my Q+A with Perrotta, a smart and lucid guy whose novels I like a lot. I was traveling last week, so this is posted a bit late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;MrCO2VFKSM6GvoqcLDS6xaupSfsgna7y&#8221;] RECENTLY I spoke to the author of the novel HBO has adapted into a Sunday-night series. Both the novel and the show concern a small town from which a small but significant number of people have mysteriously vanished; most of the storytelling concern the way people deal in various &#8212; and variously conflicting [&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":[35,98,36,77,464],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-hbo","8":"category-religion","9":"category-television","10":"category-tom-perrotta","11":"entry","12":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","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=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}