{"id":15808,"date":"2015-05-18T00:22:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T04:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=15808"},"modified":"2015-05-25T00:08:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T04:08:45","slug":"dorthe-nors-the-freezer-chest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/05\/18\/dorthe-nors-the-freezer-chest\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorthe Nors: &#8220;The Freezer Chest&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/05\/25\/the-freezer-chest\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read the story in its entirety on\u00a0<em>The New Yorker <\/em>webpage. Dorthe Nors' \"The Freezer Chest,\" translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra,\u00a0was originally published in the\u00a0May 25, 2015 issue of\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em>.<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/May-25-2015.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15811\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/05\/18\/dorthe-nors-the-freezer-chest\/may-25-2015\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/May-25-2015.jpg?fit=690%2C946&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"690,946\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"May 25, 2015\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/May-25-2015.jpg?fit=690%2C946&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15811\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/May-25-2015-219x300.jpg?resize=219%2C300\" alt=\"May 25, 2015\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/May-25-2015.jpg?resize=219%2C300&amp;ssl=1 219w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/May-25-2015.jpg?w=690&amp;ssl=1 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a>A couple of years ago a strange, extremely short story showed up in <em>The New Yorker<\/em>: &#8220;The Heron,&#8221; by Dorthe Nors (we talked about it <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/09\/02\/dorthe-nors-the-heron\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>). I was a big fan, and I devoured (but have yet to review &#8212; I need to fix that) her subsequent collection <em>Karate Chop<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thrilled to see more of her work showing up in the magazine, and I&#8217;ll be joining in the discussion below once I&#8217;ve read through it.<\/p>\n<p>Please leave your thoughts &#8212; or any other comments you might have &#8212; below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s <em>New Yorker<\/em> fiction is Dorthe Nors&#8217; &#8220;The Freezer Chest,&#8221; translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra. Come in and join the discussion. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/05\/18\/dorthe-nors-the-freezer-chest\/\"><u>Read the full post<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[453,94],"tags":[560],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-15808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dorthe-nors","category-new-yorker-fiction","tag-short-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Nors-The-Freezer-Chest.jpg?fit=879%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-46Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15854,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15808\/revisions\/15854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15808"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}