{"id":895,"date":"2010-12-28T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/12\/great-new-novel.html"},"modified":"2010-12-28T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T17:44:00","slug":"great-new-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/12\/great-new-novel.html","title":{"rendered":"Great New Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIS week the first novel by a former indie rock guitarist comes out on Crown. The novel,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themetropoliscase.com\/\"> The Metropolis Case<\/a>, has a lot to do with opera, though you don&#8217;t have to be an opera fan to enjoy the book. If you dig <i>Tristan und Isolde<\/i> &#8212; or have every been transported by music &#8212; the novel will have special meaning and depth.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/TRoh4m93C3I\/AAAAAAAABCI\/OuLdN-omS6Q\/s1600\/metropolis.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/TRoh4m93C3I\/AAAAAAAABCI\/OuLdN-omS6Q\/s320\/metropolis.png\" width=\"210\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/28\/books\/28book.html?_r=1\">HERE<\/a> \u00a0is my review from today&#8217;s New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>I pick up a lot of novels, old and new, with hopes of getting through them. In the case of <i>The Metropolis Case<\/i>, I was drawn into the characters&#8217; fates after a few pages.<\/p>\n<p>The novel is also set more or less in the opera world, but you shouldn&#8217;t let that scare you any more than the ballet in <i>Black Swan<\/i>: Gallaway writes as if those old anxieties surrounding &#8220;high&#8221; culture have worn themselves out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS week the first novel by a former indie rock guitarist comes out on Crown. The novel, The Metropolis Case, has a lot to do with opera, though you don&#8217;t have to be an opera fan to enjoy the book. If you dig Tristan und Isolde &#8212; or have every been transported by music &#8212; [&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":[54,40,34,141],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-classical-music","7":"category-indie","8":"category-literary","9":"category-wagner","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","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=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}