{"id":17146,"date":"2015-12-07T01:39:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T05:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=17146"},"modified":"2015-12-07T01:39:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T05:39:13","slug":"dana-spiotta-jelly-and-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2015\/12\/07\/dana-spiotta-jelly-and-jack\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana Spiotta: “Jelly and Jack”"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dana Spiotta's \"Jelly and Jack\" was originally published in the December 14, 2015 issue of The New Yorker<\/em>. Click here<\/a> to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker<\/em> webpage.<\/pre>\n
\"December<\/a>I’m not familiar with Dana Spiotta’s work, so I hope someone can let us know more about it. A bit of research shows that she’s published three books: Lightning Field<\/em> (2001), Eat the Document<\/em> (2006; finalist for the National Book Award), and\u00a0Stone Arabia<\/em> (2011; finalist for the National Book Critic Circle Award). Her next book, Innocent and Others<\/em>, is coming next year. “Jelly and Jack” is an excerpt from this novel.<\/p>\n
You can find Deborah Treisman’s interview with Spiotta here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
I look forward to the conversation below!<\/p>\n
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This week\u2019s New Yorker fiction is Dana Spiotta’s \u201cJelly and Jack,\u201d an excerpt from her forthcoming novel Innocents and Others<\/em>. Read the full post and join the conversation<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17148,"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":[824,94],"tags":[560],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-17146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dana-spiotta","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\/12\/Spiotta-Jelly-and-Jack.jpg?fit=690%2C941&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-4sy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146","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=17146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17149,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146\/revisions\/17149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17146"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}