{"id":2209,"date":"2010-06-28T08:06:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T13:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=2209"},"modified":"2010-06-28T08:06:47","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T13:06:47","slug":"nprs-thrilled-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=2209","title":{"rendered":"NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Thrilled To Death&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their new series (&#8220;Thrilled to Death,&#8221;) NPR has asked thriller novelists to talk about beloved books. Kicking off the series is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottturow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Scott Turow<\/a> who chose Graham Greene&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/innopac.noblenet.org\/record=b1185680~S4\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Power and the Glory<\/em><\/a>. Of the book, Turow states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/power-and-glory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2211 alignleft\" title=\"power.and.glory\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/power-and-glory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The novel captivated me completely. It was a thriller \u2014 but also a novel of ideas. Greene&#8217;s elegant use of detail, the author&#8217;s profound knowledge of his characters, and his novel&#8217;s unrelenting suspense marked the book to me as a work of the highest literary art.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"res127990321\"><!-- END --><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">That recognition confused me at the time.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=127749412&amp;ft=1&amp;f=1032\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their new series (&#8220;Thrilled to Death,&#8221;) NPR has asked thriller novelists to talk about beloved books. Kicking off the series is Scott Turow who chose Graham Greene&#8217;s The Power and the Glory. Of the book, Turow states: The novel captivated me completely. It was a thriller \u2014 but also a novel of ideas. Greene&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-literary-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-zD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}