{"product_id":"2940013251618","title":"Los Angeles Review of Books Issue 2","description":"A compilation of some of the best of the Los Angeles Review of Books' first six months.  Authors include\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Ehrenreich, Michael Tolkin, Mark McGurl, and Jane Smiley.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Specktor — Mr. Sublimation\u003cbr\u003eA review of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSven Birkerts — The Room and the Elephant\u003cbr\u003eOn the culture of intellectual debate online.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Tolkin — One Inch Above the Ground\u003cbr\u003eA review of Louis Auchincloss' A Voice from Old New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Ehrenreich — Man Is Not Cat Food\u003cbr\u003eOn the morality — and lack thereof — of humans and animals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark McGurl — The MFA Octopus: Four Questions About Creative Writing\u003cbr\u003eA response to Elif Batuman's review of The Program Era in the London Review of Books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Smiley — The Other Nancy Mitford\u003cbr\u003eOn a great neglected modern novelist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChris Kraus — Posthumous\u003cbr\u003eOn a new biography of Simone Weil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBen Lerner — Where The Action Was\u003cbr\u003eOn Abstract Expressionist New York, as seen from Kansas and California.","brand":"Los Angeles Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082466214128,"sku":"2940013251618","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013251618_p0.jpg?v=1763578950","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013251618","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}