{"id":1149,"date":"2007-12-05T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2007-12-05T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T09:01:00","slug":"book_gene_lees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/12\/book_gene_lees\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: Gene Lees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Lees, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libroslibertad.ca\/songlakesummer.php\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Song Lake Summer<\/em><\/a> (Libros Libertad). Lees, the prolific biographer of musicians and proprietor of the invaluable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halgalper.com\/14_grab\/jazzletter.htm\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Jazzletter<\/em><\/a>, turns novelist with fiction about a little-remembered piece of history in the northeastern US. It is the tale of a deep and unlikely friendship that develops between two men, a love story with a surprising twist and a lyrical imagining of a time and way of life we&#8217;ll never see again. Full disclosure: I wrote a blurb for the dust jacket (&#8220;Lees has the ability, reminiscent of Chekhov, to explore feelings and inner conflicts that his characters cannot define in themselves&#8221;). And I&#8217;d do it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Lees, Song Lake Summer (Libros Libertad). Lees, the prolific biographer of musicians and proprietor of the invaluable Jazzletter, turns novelist with fiction about a little-remembered piece of history in the northeastern US. It is the tale of a deep and unlikely friendship that develops between two men, a love story with a surprising twist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}