{"id":2899,"date":"2014-12-12T17:52:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T01:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2014-12-12T17:56:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T01:56:29","slug":"culture-crash-the-book-goes-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/12\/culture-crash-the-book-goes-to-washington.html","title":{"rendered":"Culture Crash the Book Goes to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;mf4rE6xWgZDul2vj7Ls64RZGrkkXbufG&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>THE august D.C. bookstore <a title=\"P+P site \" href=\"http:\/\/www.politics-prose.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Politics and Prose<\/a> will host an event for my book a few days after publication, on Saturday evening, January 17.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great bookstore with a smart staff and a great hand-picked selection; it&#8217;s exactly the kind of place I write about in the book, and the kind of place that tends to disappear in the digital age unless there is very committed management, a loyal readership, and a lot of luck. An honor to appear there.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama recently <a title=\"Obama goes to P+P\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/11\/30\/obama-politics-prose-bookstore_n_4364736.html\" target=\"_blank\">visited<\/a> the shop. A former employee once told me a story of Clinton coming in and buying a lot of noir novels.<\/p>\n<p>A FEW days ago I annou<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2863 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CultureCrash-Evan-cover-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"CultureCrash Evan cover\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CultureCrash-Evan-cover-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/CultureCrash-Evan-cover.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>nced a New York date (January 21 at McNally Jackson.) There&#8217;s at least one more, maybe two more, events coming &#8212; I&#8217;ll try to post the whole slate on my site soon.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/pandp_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/pandp_logo.png\" alt=\"pandp_logo\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/pandp_logo.png 175w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/pandp_logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/pandp_logo-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;mf4rE6xWgZDul2vj7Ls64RZGrkkXbufG&#8221;] THE august D.C. bookstore Politics and Prose will host an event for my book a few days after publication, on Saturday evening, January 17. This is a great bookstore with a smart staff and a great hand-picked selection; it&#8217;s exactly the kind of place I write about in the book, and the kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2900,"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":[650,39,596,572],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bookstores","8":"category-creative-class","9":"category-culture-crash-the-book","10":"category-washington","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","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=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}