{"id":680,"date":"2007-02-13T19:19:37","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T00:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2007\/02\/reconsider_baby\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T19:19:37","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T00:19:37","slug":"reconsider_baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2007\/02\/reconsider_baby\/","title":{"rendered":"RECONSIDER BABY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><B><br \/>\nDAVID THOMSON<br \/>\n<\/B> <BR><BR><br \/>\nReviewers couldn&#8217;t get past the conceit of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nicole-Kidman-David-Thomson\/dp\/1400042739\/sr=1-2\/qid=1171290205\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2\/103-3286996-1159845?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\" target=\"_blank\">Kidman<\/A> crush, which motors his prose beyond devotional. Eccentric, over-the-top, and compulsively readable, in sections earning its analogies and fantasy roles, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v29\/n03\/wils08_.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bee Wilson<\/A> notes in LRB.<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\n<B><br \/>\nLESLIE SAVAN<br \/>\n<\/B> <BR><BR><br \/>\nThe NYTimes especially seemed bent on turning this into skeet, when a close read reveals a mind humming with insight. Turns out &#8220;casual&#8221; slang is weightier, more poetic than it seems, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Slam-Dunks-No-Brainers-Language-Whatever\/dp\/0375702423\/sr=1-1\/qid=1171290238\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/103-3286996-1159845?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\" target=\"_blank\">Savan<\/A> has more to say about it than anybody else. Now in paperback.<br \/>\n<BR><BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVID THOMSON Reviewers couldn&#8217;t get past the conceit of his Kidman crush, which motors his prose beyond devotional. Eccentric, over-the-top, and compulsively readable, in sections earning its analogies and fantasy roles, as Bee Wilson notes in LRB. LESLIE SAVAN The NYTimes especially seemed bent on turning this into skeet, when a close read reveals a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-680","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\/680","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=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}