{"id":206,"date":"2009-11-21T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T19:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2009-11-21T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T19:38:11","slug":"james-boswell-international-man-of-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/2009\/11\/21\/james-boswell-international-man-of-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"James Boswell, International Man of Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A discussion on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.personal.psu.edu\/special\/C18\/c18-l.htm\">C18-L<\/a> alerted me to a recently published novel called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/7974232\"><em>The Brothers Boswell<\/em><\/a>, in which James Boswell&#8217;s criminally insane brother John stalks Boswell and Johnson, planning to murder them with a pair of golden pistols. The <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/05\/03\/AR2009050301971.html\">has a review here<\/a>, and the <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/12\/books\/excerpt-brothers-boswell.html\">has posted the first chapter<\/a>. Author Philip Baruth talks a bit about writing the novel<a href=\"http:\/\/literatehousewife.com\/2009\/05\/writing-the-brothers-boswell-a-guest-post-by-philip-baruth\/\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A discussion on C18-L alerted me to a recently published novel called The Brothers Boswell, in which James Boswell&#8217;s criminally insane brother John stalks Boswell and Johnson, planning to murder them with a pair of golden pistols. The Washington Post has a review here, and the New York Times has posted the first chapter. Author [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[769],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-overholt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hydeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}