{"id":23633,"date":"2018-10-14T07:57:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T06:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23633"},"modified":"2018-10-14T07:57:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T06:57:43","slug":"ever-heard-of-up-lit-sounds-like-a-good-idea-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23633","title":{"rendered":"Ever heard of &#8220;up-lit&#8221;? Sounds like a good idea to me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many fiction books and television series seem to be about crime and violence. Although I&#8217;m current reading the thriller <em>&#8220;Prague Fatale&#8221;<\/em> by Philip Kerr and recently watched the hit BBC series <em>&#8220;Bodyguard&#8221;<\/em>, I&#8217;m not generally attracted to such dark material.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, I&#8217;m not the only one which explains the growth in popularity of so-called &#8220;up-lit&#8221; or uplifting literature. A classic example of this is the best-selling novel <em>&#8220;Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine&#8221;<\/em> by Gail Honeyman which I&#8217;ve reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#EOICF\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week at the Frankfurt Book Fair, there was excitement about another example of &#8220;up-lit&#8221;: \u00a0<em>&#8220;The Love Story of Missy Carmichael&#8221;<\/em> by\u00a0Beth Morrey. You can read about this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/oct\/12\/up-lit-gives-hope-to-publishers-at-frankfurt-book-fair\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many fiction books and television series seem to be about crime and violence. Although I&#8217;m current reading the thriller &#8220;Prague Fatale&#8221; by Philip Kerr and recently watched the hit BBC series &#8220;Bodyguard&#8221;, I&#8217;m not generally attracted to such dark material. Apparently, I&#8217;m not the only one which explains the growth in popularity of so-called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23633"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23648,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23633\/revisions\/23648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}