{"id":1621,"date":"2009-07-11T06:51:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T11:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2009-07-11T06:55:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T11:55:17","slug":"dead-iraqis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2009\/07\/11\/dead-iraqis\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Iraqis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nEllis sharp has a new book out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.new-ventures.net\/HTM\/Dead%20Iraqis.htm\">from New Ventures<\/a>.  Nicholas Lezard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/jul\/11\/dead-iraqis-ellis-sharp-review\">reviews it for <cite>The Guardian<\/cite><\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But other stories pile anything and everything in. One would not have thought an author could link Che Guevara and the Loch Ness monster, but Sharp does. Sharp is sui generis. At times he comes across as if he were a compound hallucination dreamed up by Iain Sinclair, William Burroughs (formulaically only; few drugs and no pederasty here) and . . . well, himself. This might sound like an unappealing mix but I am delighted to have read him. You can trust him because beneath the zaniness, at the level of the sentence, he is very good indeed. This is not magic realism. These are the bad dreams of the 20th century.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellis sharp has a new book out from New Ventures. Nicholas Lezard reviews it for The Guardian: But other stories pile anything and everything in. One would not have thought an author could link Che Guevara and the Loch Ness monster, but Sharp does. Sharp is sui generis. At times he comes across as if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[296],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-ellis-sharp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}