{"id":12,"date":"2012-01-22T14:49:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T19:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaellaser.com\/michaellaser\/wp\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2021-03-26T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T21:09:00","slug":"odds-ends","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"Odds &#038; Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Favorite Fiction<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Inspirations, Influences, Recommendations<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50 alignright\" title=\"oe_books_01\" src=\"http:\/\/michaellaser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/oe_books_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/oe_books_01.jpg 367w, https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/oe_books_01-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of these have been favorites since college. My tastes may have changed, but it would feel disloyal to drop any of them from the list.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the books pictured at right, here are a few more favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any page of Kafka<\/li>\n<li>The last 3 pages of Joyce\u2019s \u201cThe Dead,\u201d the first page of <em>Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man<\/em>, and random pages from <em>Ulysses<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The 50-page Prologue of Don\u00a0DeLillo\u2019s <em>Underworld<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Any story by Stephen Dixon<\/li>\n<li>Any story by Damon Runyon<\/li>\n<li><em>A Good Man is Hard to Find<\/em>, stories by Flannery O\u2019Connor<\/li>\n<li><em>What Is the What<\/em>, by Dave Eggers<\/li>\n<li><em>The Devil\u2019s Dictionary<\/em>, by Ambrose Bierce [not fiction, but a favorite]<\/li>\n<li><em>Foreign Objects<\/em>, by David Reisman [again, not fiction, but a favorite]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/michaellaser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/oe_manuscript_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51 size-full\" title=\"oe_manuscript_01\" src=\"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/oe_manuscript_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/oe_manuscript_01.jpg 255w, https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/oe_manuscript_01-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How I Write<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/michaellaser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/oe_portrait_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52\" title=\"oe_portrait_01\" src=\"http:\/\/michaellaser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/oe_portrait_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/oe_portrait_01.jpg 255w, https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/oe_portrait_01-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Self Portrait<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Favorite Fiction Inspirations, Influences, Recommendations Some of these have been favorites since college. My tastes may have changed, but it would feel disloyal to drop any of them from the list. In addition to the books pictured at right, here are a few more favorites: Any page of Kafka The last 3 pages of Joyce\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-12","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaellaser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}