{"id":25849,"date":"2026-01-12T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25849"},"modified":"2026-01-11T20:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:07:53","slug":"library-addition-jonathan-lethems-k-is-for-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=25849","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Jonathan Lethem&#8217;s K is for Fake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An odd chapbook find from my trip to Houston:<\/p>\n<p>Lethem, Jonathan. <b>K is for Fake<\/b>. McSweeney&#8217;s Quarterly, 2000. First edition chapbook original, a Fine copy. Story about Franz Kafka from the then-forthcoming <b>Kafka Americana<\/b>. Bought for $10 from The Little Book House in the Woods in Spring, Texas. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Lethem-K-is-for-Fake-723x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"637\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Lethem-K-is-for-Fake-723x1024.png 723w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Lethem-K-is-for-Fake-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Lethem-K-is-for-Fake-768x1088.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Lethem-K-is-for-Fake-1084x1536.png 1084w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Lethem-K-is-for-Fake.png 1308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Obviously I&#8217;m a sucker for weirdo SF\/F chapbooks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An odd chapbook find from my trip to Houston: Lethem, Jonathan. K is for Fake. McSweeney&#8217;s Quarterly, 2000. First edition chapbook original, a Fine copy. Story about Franz Kafka from the then-forthcoming Kafka Americana. Bought for $10 from The Little Book House in the Woods in Spring, Texas. Obviously I&#8217;m a sucker for weirdo SF\/F [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137],"tags":[82,1143,1983,2808,1878,773],"class_list":["post-25849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","tag-book","tag-chapbooks","tag-fantasy","tag-franz-kafka","tag-jonathan-lethem","tag-slipstream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25849"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25860,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25849\/revisions\/25860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}