{"id":514,"date":"2005-06-06T10:04:45","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T14:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2005\/06\/go_down_oprah\/"},"modified":"2005-06-06T10:04:45","modified_gmt":"2005-06-06T14:04:45","slug":"go_down_oprah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2005\/06\/go_down_oprah\/","title":{"rendered":"GO DOWN, OPRAH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oprah picks three<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookstandard.com\/bookstandard\/news\/author\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000946563\" target=\"_blank\">Faulkner<br \/>\n<\/A> novels for her summer reading club, complete with free <a href=\"\/main.asp?datasetid=13878&#038;Site=12595\" target=\"_blank\">online commentaries<\/A> by scholars&#8230; The Vintage box includes AS I LAY DYING, SOUND AND THE FURY, and LIGHT IN AUGUST, which is more like the novelist&#8217;s broiling core than a 8th-grade educated audience&#8217;s introduction. Probably don&#8217;t have time to reread these, but I&#8217;ll be checking on this&#8230; DYING is often used as a primer, but FURY is stone-cold difficult no matter who you are, and AUGUST is a Christ allegory that should get some tooters hooting.<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\n<B><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/topfive\/topfive.shtml#90s\" target=\"_blank\">TOP 90s ACTS<\/A> (randomly)<br \/>\n<\/B> <BR><BR><br \/>\n1.\tRide<BR><br \/>\n2.\tBeck<BR><br \/>\n3.\tPavement<BR><br \/>\n4.\tPortishead<BR><br \/>\n5.\tIvy<BR><br \/>\n6.\tCardigans<BR><br \/>\n7.\tGorillaz<BR><br \/>\n8.\tDJ Shadow<BR><br \/>\n9.\tLos Lobos\/Latin Playboys<BR><br \/>\n10.\tMekons\/Langford<BR><br \/>\n11.\tPretenders<BR><br \/>\n12.\tOld 97s<BR><br \/>\n13.\tBottle Rockets<BR><br \/>\n14.\tDwight Yoakam<BR><br \/>\n15.\tBonnie Raitt<BR><br \/>\n16.\tPJ Harvey<BR><br \/>\n17.\tLuna<BR><br \/>\n18.\tYo La Tengo<BR><br \/>\n19.\tIris Dement<BR><br \/>\n20.\tNirvana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oprah picks three Faulkner novels for her summer reading club, complete with free online commentaries by scholars&#8230; The Vintage box includes AS I LAY DYING, SOUND AND THE FURY, and LIGHT IN AUGUST, which is more like the novelist&#8217;s broiling core than a 8th-grade educated audience&#8217;s introduction. Probably don&#8217;t have time to reread these, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}