{"id":263,"date":"2021-05-22T23:26:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T23:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=263"},"modified":"2021-05-22T23:26:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T23:26:14","slug":"the-grapes-of-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2021\/05\/22\/the-grapes-of-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grapes of Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When it comes to lost works of literature, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/may\/22\/john-steinbecks-estate-urged-to-let-the-world-read-his-shunned-werewolf-novel\">John Steinbeck&#8217;s unpublished werewolf mystery<\/a> amounts to five words I never imagined I&#8217;d ever write in that order together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/euppublishingblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/werewolf.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Werewolves and Wildness: The Open Graves, Open Minds special issue of  Gothic Studies - Edinburgh University Press Blog\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, it perhaps might not carry the same cultural weight as rediscovering Aristotle&#8217;s volume on comedy, or Shakespeare&#8217;s <em>Love&#8217;s Labours Won, <\/em>or Gerard Manley Hopkins&#8217; early poetry, or James Joyce&#8217;s lost stageplay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in terms of sheer unexpectedness, it&#8217;s on a par with hearing of the existence of Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s secret gay erotica, Franz Kafka&#8217;s rediscovered techno thriller, or Sylvia Plath&#8217;s long forgotten shopping and fucking chicklit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actually, it&#8217;s even less likely than all of those. But, we are assured, nevertheless, it exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publish it now, dammit! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to lost works of literature, John Steinbeck&#8217;s unpublished werewolf mystery amounts to five words I never imagined I&#8217;d ever write in that order together. Okay, it perhaps might not carry the same cultural weight as rediscovering Aristotle&#8217;s volume on comedy, or Shakespeare&#8217;s Love&#8217;s Labours Won, or Gerard Manley Hopkins&#8217; early poetry, or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2021\/05\/22\/the-grapes-of-wolf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Grapes of Wolf&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[109],"tags":[156,157,158,153,154,69,155],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-aristotle","tag-gerard-manley-hopkins","tag-james-joyce","tag-john-steinbeck","tag-modernism","tag-shakespeare","tag-werewolves"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnZAt-4f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}