{"id":3319,"date":"2012-05-28T17:56:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T22:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2012-05-28T17:56:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T22:56:38","slug":"genre-goes-highbrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3319","title":{"rendered":"Genre Goes Highbrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea that <em>The New Yorker<\/em> was doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/toc\/2012\/06\/04\/toc_20120528\">science fiction issue<\/a> until I received my weekly subscriber update in my inbox this morning, but I&#8217;m excited to check it out. It features fiction by Jennifer Egan (whose<em> A Visit from the Goon Squad<\/em> is well worth your time) and Jonathan Lethem, as well longform pieces on <em>Doctor Who<\/em> and aliens in movies. Even the cover&#8211;an alien, a robot, and a ray-gun wielding human crashing a New York dinner party&#8211;is a clever homage to the genre and something I would consider framing. Either editor-in-chief David Remnick is a huge geek or the geeks on his staff browbeated him into greenlighting this issue. Either way, it&#8217;s further proof of how thoroughly geek culture has influenced mainstream taste.<\/p>\n<p>A video promo of the issue can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2012\/05\/science-fiction-dan-winters.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea that The New Yorker was doing a science fiction issue until I received my weekly subscriber update in my inbox this morning, but I&#8217;m excited to check it out. It features fiction by Jennifer Egan (whose A Visit from the Goon Squad is well worth your time) and Jonathan Lethem, as <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3319' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeking-out","category-17-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Rx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3320,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions\/3320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}