{"id":3517,"date":"2011-11-11T07:13:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T04:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=3517"},"modified":"2011-11-11T07:13:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T04:13:49","slug":"new-penguin-machen-introductions-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/11\/11\/new-penguin-machen-introductions-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"New Penguin Machen introductions, for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click on the &#8220;Look Inside&#8221; at the Amazon page for the new <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/reader\/0143105590\/\">The White People and Other Weird Stories<\/a><\/em> &mdash; and the 10% Kindle preview gives you the excellent introductions by del Toro and S.T. Joshi, for free&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>del Toro: &#8220;Philosophers, writers, and artists are rarely emotionally successful human beings.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>S.T. Joshi: &#8220;&#8230;the supernatural can only manifest itself in literature when a relatively stable and coherent idea of the natural has been arrived at.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>S.T. Joshi: &#8220;&#8230;the best weird writers understood that supernatural motifs could serve as metaphors for the expression of truths about the human condition (the vampire as social outsider, for example) in a more vivid and pungent manner than in conventional mimetic realism.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The book is not available in the U.K. Kindle Store (<em>sigh<\/em>&#8230;, when will publishers learn that publicity is now global and not national?), but U.K. readers can read the intro by going to the American Amazon store and clicking &#8220;Look Inside&#8221;.  I guess you may have to be registered with the U.S. Amazon to do this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/penguin-machen.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"penguin-machen\" width=\"326\" height=\"502\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3518\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on the &#8220;Look Inside&#8221; at the Amazon page for the new The White People and Other Weird Stories &mdash; &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/11\/11\/new-penguin-machen-introductions-for-free\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}