{"id":2792,"date":"2015-06-07T11:45:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T11:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/?p=2792"},"modified":"2015-06-07T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T13:43:07","slug":"leftlion-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/leftlion-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"LEFTLION INTERVIEW &#038; A BOOKISH ELVIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2794\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"image001\" width=\"148\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nottingham&#8217;s free monthly listings and culture magazine, Leftlion, has been unfailingly supportive of the city&#8217;s UNESCO City of Literature bid, and this month&#8217;s issue carries a long interview with me about the bid. If you live in Nottingham, you can pick up a copy all over the place, from my local greengrocer, Thompsons, through to Broadway, Five Leaves Bookshop and Rough Trade. But if you&#8217;re not, and want to read it online, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftlion.co.uk\/articles.cfm\/title\/unesco-city-of-literature--david-belbin\/id\/7495\">click here<\/a>. Oh, and, the online version has an extra question, towards the end, where I talk about the next Bone and Cane novel, due this autumn. More on that anon.<\/p>\n<p>A week tonight, I&#8217;m off to see Elvis Costello for the umpteenth time over the last 35 years. Solo, for, I think, the third time. Here&#8217;s a recent appearance he made on David Letterman&#8217;s farewell series of shows, performing a medley of his own &#8216;Everyday I Write the Book&#8217; and Nick Lowe&#8217;s &#8216;When I Write the Book.&#8217; Wonder if we can get him to endorse the bid?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/When-I-Write-the-Book-Everyday-I-Write-the-Book-Medley.mp3\">When I Write the Book &amp; Everyday I Write the Book (Medley)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nottingham&#8217;s free monthly listings and culture magazine, Leftlion, has been unfailingly supportive of the city&#8217;s UNESCO City of Literature bid, and this month&#8217;s issue carries a long interview with me about the bid. If you live in Nottingham, you can pick up a copy all over the place, from my local greengrocer, Thompsons, through to Broadway, Five Leaves Bookshop and Rough Trade. But if you&#8217;re not, and want to read it online, click here. Oh, and, the online version has an extra question, towards the end, where I talk about the next Bone and Cane novel, due this autumn. More on that anon. A week tonight, I&#8217;m off to see Elvis Costello for the umpteenth time over the last 35 years. Solo, for, I think,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2798,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}