{"id":1001,"date":"2018-04-13T00:11:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T04:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2018-04-13T00:11:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T04:11:23","slug":"oh-have-i-got-a-room-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/2018\/04\/13\/oh-have-i-got-a-room-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Have I Got A Room For You . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room<\/em>, the tale of doomed gay love in 1950s Paris — also the namesake of the country's oldest LGBT bookstore<\/a> — is a fantastic, taut sub-200-page romantic mystery — lyrically written and economic in its storytelling and universally loved by the book club (which is really, really rare!).<\/p>\n

(That Room<\/em> is written by a black author — actually, the quintessential African American literary 0voice — and does not touch on race was a thing<\/a>; I think it detracts from the actual book to speculate on what isn't actually written there.)<\/p>\n

Being a tale of doomed love, things die in this book: souls, actual people, etc. And I don't know if I've been watching too many Netflix series or whatnot, but as Room<\/em> started to heat up and the intertwining stories began to come together, I had the nagging feeling that something very epic was going to happen: instead of Giovanni getting rung up for murdering Guillaume, David was actually setting Giovanni up to go to jail so he could escape the relationship — and David actually killed Guillaume! It went on like this until I finally dialed back expectations for every single goddamn story to circle back toward a third act of treachery and malaise. Which is to say, sometimes a tale of doomed love can be just that . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, the tale of doomed gay love in 1950s Paris — also the namesake of the country's oldest LGBT bookstore — is a fantastic, taut sub-200-page romantic mystery — lyrically written and economic in its storytelling and universally loved by the book club (which is really, really rare!). (That Room is written […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[266],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-are-the-suvs-of-writing","tag-book-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/slightest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}