{"id":3633,"date":"2017-07-19T09:54:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T16:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2017-07-19T10:11:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T17:11:05","slug":"money-is-a-kind-of-poetry-lee-siegels-the-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2017\/07\/money-is-a-kind-of-poetry-lee-siegels-the-draw.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Money is a kind of poetry&#8221;: Lee Siegel&#8217;s The Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar]<\/p>\n<p>ONE of the finest memoirs I&#8217;ve read in many moons comes from veteran literary and culture critic Lee Siegel. His book <em>The Draw<\/em> tells the tale of an intellectually serious young man in a family w\/ a messy, complicated relationship to money and class, which set repeated roadblocks before him. It&#8217;s lyrical, succinct, at times painful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/portrait-of-the-artist-on-the-make-a-conversation-with-lee-siegel\/\">Here<\/a> is my Q+A with Siegel, who is published here by FSG, for the Los Angeles Review of Books. In a funny way some of it &#8212; especially the effort of a boy from a not-rich family to become a writer and independent thinker &#8212; dovetails with my book <em>Culture Crash<\/em>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/9780374178055.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/9780374178055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar] ONE of the finest memoirs I&#8217;ve read in many moons comes from veteran literary and culture critic Lee Siegel. His book The Draw tells the tale of an intellectually serious young man in a family w\/ a messy, complicated relationship to money and class, which set repeated roadblocks before him. It&#8217;s lyrical, succinct, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3634,"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":[35,39,34],"tags":[821,822,820],"class_list":{"0":"post-3633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"category-creative-class","9":"category-literary","10":"tag-lee-siegel","11":"tag-los-angeles-review-of-boos","12":"tag-memoir","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633","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=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3635,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions\/3635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}