{"id":769,"date":"2009-10-02T07:50:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T15:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=769"},"modified":"2009-10-02T07:56:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T15:56:34","slug":"the-return-of-the-pimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=769","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Pimp."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=542\">hearty endorsement<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/davidnickle.blogspot.com\/\">David Nickle<\/a>&#8216;s short-story collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Monstrous-Affections-David-Nickle\/dp\/0981297838\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1254498467&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>Monstrous Affections<\/em><\/a>, a while back.  You may have dismissed that praise as reflexive pimpage on behalf of a friend (you can tell Dave&#8217;s my friend because no character with his name has ever appeared in any of my novels only to be brutally crushed by a cold and indifferent universe).  Maybe, you thought, David Nickle is actually a talentless hack whose work I endorsed merely out of pity or misplaced loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now you can put those suspicions to rest, because now we have independent confirmation:  Publisher&#8217;s Weekly just gave <em>Monstrous Affections<\/em> a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6698675.html?industryid=47141\">starred review<\/a> (although you have to scroll down a ways to the &#8220;SF\/Fantasy\/Horror&#8221; section to read it).  &#8220;Will delight the literary horror reader&#8221;, they say, and &#8220;This ambitious collection firmly establishes Nickle as a writer to watch.&#8221;\u00a0 Plus, his publisher has even back-burnered the overpriced collector&#8217;s edition in favor of a much more affordable trade paperback.<\/p>\n<p>So.\u00a0 <em>Now<\/em> do you believe me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember my hearty endorsement of David Nickle&#8216;s short-story collection, Monstrous Affections, a while back. You may have dismissed that praise as reflexive pimpage on behalf of a friend (you can tell Dave&#8217;s my friend because no character with his name has ever appeared in any of my novels only to be brutally crushed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ink-on-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}