{"id":23,"date":"2007-06-17T20:27:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T03:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2007-08-13T22:32:49","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T03:32:49","slug":"23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/17\/23\/","title":{"rendered":"Two for two for Twelve on the NYT bestseller list"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0\"Boomsday\"God<\/p>\n

New York Magazine has an item by Lloyd Grove on Twelve’s early success <\/a>with landing the imprint’s first two books on The New York Times best seller list — Boomsday<\/a> by Christopher Buckley <\/a>(peaked at #14 on the fiction hardcover bestseller list) and God is not Great<\/a> by Christopher Hitchens <\/a>(#1 on non-fiction hardover). Early success is not without its skeptics, the item notes. “Having two best sellers is certainly an achievement, but he started off with two brands,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d snipes a rival publishing exec. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Can he work his magic with lesser-known authors?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That is a very good question. Crossing fingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0 New York Magazine has an item by Lloyd Grove on Twelve’s early success with landing the imprint’s first two books on The New York Times best seller list — Boomsday by Christopher Buckley (peaked at #14 on the fiction hardcover bestseller list) and God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens (#1 on non-fiction hardover). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2pydS-23","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}