{"id":17747,"date":"2016-03-14T12:02:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T16:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=17747"},"modified":"2016-03-14T12:02:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T16:02:06","slug":"annie-proulx-a-resolute-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2016\/03\/14\/annie-proulx-a-resolute-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Annie Proulx: &#8220;A Resolute Man&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><strong><em><span style=\"color: #003366;\">\"A Resolute Man\"<\/span><\/em><\/strong>\r\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">by Annie Proulx<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">Originally published in the March 21, 2016 issue of <em>The New Yorer<\/em>.<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\">Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/03\/21\/a-resolute-man\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read the story in its entirety on <em>The New Yorker<\/em> website.<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/March-21-2016.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17750\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17750\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2016\/03\/14\/annie-proulx-a-resolute-man\/march-21-2016\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/March-21-2016.jpg?fit=3150%2C4300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3150,4300\" 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=\"March 21, 2016\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/March-21-2016.jpg?fit=750%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17750\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/March-21-2016-220x300.jpg?resize=220%2C300\" alt=\"March 21, 2016\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/March-21-2016.jpg?resize=220%2C300&amp;ssl=1 220w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/March-21-2016.jpg?resize=768%2C1048&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/March-21-2016.jpg?resize=750%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/March-21-2016.jpg?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m definitely a fan of Annie Proulx&#8217;s work,\u00a0to the point I&#8217;m tempted to try to read\u00a0her\u00a0736-page novel, <em>Barkskins<\/em>,\u00a0that is coming out in June. But wait, I have read some of that novel already, when an excerpt of it, &#8220;Rough Deeds,&#8221;\u00a0was published in the\u00a02013 Summer Fiction issue (see our thoughts <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/06\/05\/annie-proulx-rough-deeds\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).\u00a0&#8220;A Resolute Man,&#8221; also,\u00a0is an excerpt from <em>Barkskins<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your thoughts below! Are any of you going to take on <em>Barkskins<\/em>? Any thoughts on Proulx in general?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s <em>New Yorker<\/em> fiction is Annie Proulx&#8217;s \u201cA Resolute Man.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2016\/03\/14\/annie-proulx-a-resolute-man\/\"><u>Read the full post and join the conversation<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17749,"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":[428,94],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-17747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annie-proulx","category-new-yorker-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Annie-Proulx-A-Resolute-Man.jpg?fit=690%2C940&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-4Cf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17747","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=17747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17751,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17747\/revisions\/17751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17747"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}