{"id":223,"date":"2006-03-08T12:40:29","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T18:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2006-03-08T12:46:32","modified_gmt":"2006-03-08T18:46:32","slug":"an-instant-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"“An Instant Classic”"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, we’re helping out a friend here. But we just had to post Muse<\/b>pal Polly’s latest news about her book:<\/i><\/p>\n

Please excuse the self-serving email, but:<\/p>\n

Time Magazine reviewed Enthusiasm!!!!!!!<\/p>\n

\nENTHUSIASM<\/i>
\nPOLLY SHULMAN\n<\/div>\n

Julie Lefkowitz is accustomed to public embarrassment: “When your best friend goes around town dressed in armor constructed from cookware, eyes naturally turn your way.” Julie’s best friend is Ashleigh, and Ashleigh is an enthusiast: she gets obsessed–way, over-the-top obsessed–with things like King Arthur or ballet or juggling. Ashleigh’s latest craze is Jane Austen, and in addition to dressing in gowns and talking in period English, she persuades long-suffering Julie to crash a dance at a fancy all-boys private school, hoping to meet a Mr. Darcy, or at least a Mr. Bingley. Winsome and witty, loaded with lunatic junior-high aper\u00c3\u00a7us<\/i> (“Juliet’s not even 14 yet,” a young Shakespeare scholar remarks. “He’s going to kill himself over an eighth-grader?”), Enthusiasm<\/i> has the makings of an instant classic.<\/p>\n

(It should be on newsstands now; it’s on the web, anyway.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read what this week’s Time<\/i> magazine says about Polly Shulman’s book Enthusiasm<\/i>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-fiction-and-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}