{"id":321,"date":"2007-06-01T13:19:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T20:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2007-12-09T07:40:30","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T14:28:30","slug":"nathan-englander-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Englander Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesse Tisch writes for JBooks.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Nathan Englander is the George W. Bush of literary novelists. Like our faith-based president<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, he bends and melds reality to his whims. Because he avoids research—crimps the imagination—he writes the kind of set-pieces that impress readers more than fact-checkers.<\/p>\n

So it’s not shocking that two scenes from his new book—both surgeries—are described in technical detail, but aren’t technically accurate.<\/p>\n

“I had somebody check it, and they were like: ‘totally wrong,’” Englander recalled recently. “And I was like, in my heart it’s right; I know you’re<\/em> wrong.”<\/p>\n

So he ended up getting… a second opinion.<\/p>\n

“This is so embarrassing to say—but I sometimes believe things have to be true if you’ve dreamed them enough.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Jesse Tisch writes for JBooks.com: Nathan Englander is the George W. Bush of literary novelists. Like our faith-based president, he bends and melds reality to his whims. Because he avoids research—crimps the imagination—he writes the kind of set-pieces that impress … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nathan-englander"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}