{"id":847115,"date":"2022-10-20T05:51:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T05:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=260555"},"modified":"2022-10-20T05:51:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T05:51:52","slug":"the-battle-of-the-books-the-waste-land-ulysses-and-howl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/10\/20\/the-battle-of-the-books-the-waste-land-ulysses-and-howl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of the Books:\u00a0The Waste Land, Ulysses\u00a0and\u00a0Howl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco, where I live and write, is all-too predictable. Not surprisingly, The City, as nearly everyone calls it, and its literate citizens have celebrated this year the 100th\u00a0anniversary of the birth of Jack Kerouac, the King of the Beats, and the 100th\u00a0anniversary of the publication of James Joyce\u2019s epic novel,\u00a0Ulysses,\u00a0which still defies readers. Curiously,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/20\/the-battle-of-the-books-the-waste-land-ulysses-and-howl\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/20\/the-battle-of-the-books-the-waste-land-ulysses-and-howl\/\">The Battle of the Books:\u00a0The Waste Land, Ulysses\u00a0and\u00a0Howl<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/10\/20\/the-battle-of-the-books-the-waste-land-ulysses-and-howl\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco, where I live and write, is all-too predictable. Not surprisingly, The City, as nearly everyone calls it, and its literate citizens have celebrated this year the 100th\u00a0anniversary of the birth of Jack Kerouac, the King of the Beats, and t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847116,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847115\/revisions\/847116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}