{"id":33678,"date":"2025-04-16T18:32:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T23:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33678"},"modified":"2025-04-16T18:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T23:32:57","slug":"youll-need-to-be-more-specific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/16\/youll-need-to-be-more-specific\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ll Need To Be More Specific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newoxfordreview.org\/documents\/the-burden-of-history-the-promise-of-divine-life\/\" target=\"_new\">The Burden of History &#038; the Promise of Divine Life<\/a> in this month&#8217;s <em>New Oxford Review<\/em> begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thirty-some years ago, I was in a dark, musty used-book store in downtown Milwaukee when a man appeared around the end of the aisle, handed me a book, and said, \u201cHere, you really ought to read this.\u201d I suppose if I were to add that he then mysteriously disappeared \u2014 which he did \u2014 you would think I\u2019m making it up. But no, that is how I discovered A Canticle for Leibowitz.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>C&#8217;mon, man, you&#8217;ll have to be more specific than that!  Was it <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Renaissance_Books\" target=\"_new\">Renaissance Books<\/a> on Plankinton Avenue which backed up to the river?  I once spent a long time pawing through its magazines until I actually came up with the <em>Saturday Review<\/em> from 1957 with an article about <em>Atlas Shrugged<\/em> in it?<\/p>\n<p>Was it Downtown Books on Wisconsin Avenue where I spent over an hour <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/26\/a-collectors-mindset\/\" target=\"_new\">in the adult magazines room to score a copy of <em>Gallery<\/em> magazine with Robert B. Parker&#8217;s short story &#8220;The Surrogate&#8221;<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>You have to be a bit more specific.  And, wow, are my memories sharp and clear on bookstores in Milwaukee in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing Renaissance Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article The Burden of History &#038; the Promise of Divine Life in this month&#8217;s New Oxford Review begins: Thirty-some years ago, I was in a dark, musty used-book store in downtown Milwaukee when a man appeared around the end of the aisle, handed me a book, and said, \u201cHere, you really ought to read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33680,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33678\/revisions\/33680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}