{"id":17320,"date":"2016-01-27T14:21:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=17320"},"modified":"2016-01-27T14:21:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:21:28","slug":"giveaway-isaac-bashevis-singer-the-collected-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2016\/01\/27\/giveaway-isaac-bashevis-singer-the-collected-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Giveaway! Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Collected Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year, The Library of America released a box set collecting their three volumes of Isaac Bashevis Singer stories as well as their special compact illustrated biography <em>Isaac Bashevis Singer: An Album<\/em>. This is a fantastic set, and I&#8217;m here today to give away two! That&#8217;s right, I want two of you who live in the United\u00a0States\u00a0to have this for free. Sorry, international readers! I do still want you to have this; I just won&#8217;t be able to give you one of these.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17428\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2016\/01\/27\/giveaway-isaac-bashevis-singer-the-collected-stories\/singer-set\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Singer-Set.jpg?fit=750%2C586&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"750,586\" 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=\"Singer Set\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Singer-Set.jpg?fit=750%2C586&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17428\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Singer-Set.jpg?resize=750%2C586\" alt=\"Singer Set\" width=\"750\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Singer-Set.jpg?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Singer-Set.jpg?fit=750%2C586&amp;ssl=1 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Compiling a life&#8217;s work in the short story form, this collection includes all of the Nobel-laureate&#8217;s\u00a0story collections published in English, from <em>Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories<\/em>,\u00a0which was\u00a0first published in 1957, to his last collection, <em>The Death of Methuselah<\/em>, published in 1988, three years before Singer died at the age of 88. Singer had been writing for a few decades before the English edition of <em>Gimpel the Fool<\/em> arrived; he&#8217;d been writing in Yiddish for years (and continued to write in Yiddish all of his life), and Saul Bellow translated the title story and saw it published in <em>The Partisan Review<\/em> in 1953.<\/p>\n<p>Singer&#8217;s stories showcase a master story-teller. The voice and tone are sophisticated meshes of humor and dread, creating characters of immense depth in just a few sentences. Over the course of these stories Singer creates a world of day-to-day life in the sunshine and the shadows, with all of the ghosts and nightmares we feel in our own surroundings.<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2016\/01\/27\/giveaway-isaac-bashevis-singer-the-collected-stories\/&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-17320 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Singer-1.jpg?fit=189%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Singer-1.jpg?resize=189%2C300&amp;ssl=1 189w, 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src=\"https:\/\/promosimple.com\/api\/1.0\/campaign\/8fd8\/iframe-loader\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library of America recently released a three-volume box set of the collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer. The set also comes with their illustrated biography <em>Singer: An Album<\/em>. It&#8217;s beautiful! And I have two to give away! <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2016\/01\/27\/giveaway-isaac-bashevis-singer-the-collected-stories\"><u>Read the full post and enter the giveaway!<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17428,"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":[800,705],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-17320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-isaac-bashevis-singer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Singer-Set.jpg?fit=750%2C586&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-4vm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17320","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=17320"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17431,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17320\/revisions\/17431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17320"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}