{"id":260456,"date":"2008-02-22T16:57:06","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T16:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/02\/22\/im-pulling-for-a-bolano-vs-mccarthy-final\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:34:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:34:33","slug":"im-pulling-for-a-bolano-vs-mccarthy-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/02\/22\/im-pulling-for-a-bolano-vs-mccarthy-final\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#39;m Pulling for a Bolano vs. McCarthy Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Morning News just announced the book list for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/the_rooster\/the_2008_tournament_of_books.php\">2008 Tournament of Books,<\/a> a March Madness-styled book contest in which high profile litbloggers decide on the best book of the past year. <\/p>\n<p>The complete list is below and features one translation&#8212;Roberto Bolano&#8217;s <i>The Savage Detectives.<\/i> I haven&#8217;t read many of these, but I am a big fan of <i>Remainder<\/i>. Regardless, the tournament is always fun to check in on. <\/p>\n<p>The official bracket will be available in early-March, but for now, here&#8217;s the complete list of books:<\/p>\n<p><i>Run<\/i> by Ann Patchett<br \/>\n<i>On Chesil Beach<\/i> by Ian McEwan<br \/>\n<i>Tree of Smoke<\/i> by Denis Johnson<br \/>\n<i>Then We Came to the End<\/i> by Joshua Ferris<br \/>\n<i>Petropolis<\/i> by Anya Ulinich<br \/>\n<i>Ovenman<\/i> by Jeff Parker<br \/>\n<i>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao<\/i> by Junot D\u00edaz<br \/>\n<i>You Don&#8217;t Love Me Yet<\/i> by Jonathan Lethem<br \/>\n<i>New England White<\/i> by Stephen L. Carter<br \/>\n<i>Remainder<\/i> by Tom McCarthy<br \/>\n<i>The Shadow Catcher<\/i> by Marianne Wiggins<br \/>\n<i>The Savage Detectives<\/i> by Roberto Bola\u00f1o<br \/>\n<i>Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name<\/i> by Vendela Vida<br \/>\n<i>Shining at the Bottom of the Sea<\/i> by Stephen Marche<br \/>\n<i>What the Dead Know<\/i> by Laura Lippman<br \/>\n<i>An Arsonist\u2019s Guide to Writers\u2019 Homes in New England<\/i> by Brock Clarke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Morning News just announced the book list for the 2008 Tournament of Books, a March Madness-styled book contest in which high profile litbloggers decide on the best book of the past year. The complete list is below and features one translation&#8212;Roberto Bolano&#8217;s The Savage Detectives. I haven&#8217;t read many of these, but I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,10366,10376],"class_list":["post-260456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-the-morning-news","tag-tournament-of-books"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359296,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260456\/revisions\/359296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}