{"id":1078,"date":"2008-10-31T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2008-10-31T17:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T17:51:00","slug":"trapped-in-chicago-bookstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"Trapped in Chicago Bookstore"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Hotel room view, across Grant Park towards the <\/span>Field Museum<\/a>, <\/span>Aquarium<\/a>, etc.<\/span><\/div>\n

When I booked this hotel, across the street from the Chicago Hilton Hotel, the AAR<\/a>‘s main annual meeting venue, I had no idea that it was only a block from one of Chicago’s Powell’s bookstores<\/a>. M. and I are in deep trouble.<\/p>\n

I restricted myself to just two purchases today: Anna Reid’s The Shaman’s Coat: A Native History of Siberia<\/a>\"\" and Giorgia Geddes’ Nichivo: Tales from the Russian Front 1941-43<\/a>\"\". Both count as “research.” (Those are Amazon links, but you can search Powells’ inventory through Advanced Book Exchange<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

And given the heavy emphasis on book-buying at AAR, I still do not understand why someone does not set up a “pack-and-ship” booth in the exhibit hall!<\/p>\n

The coffee shops are filling up too: “My dissertation advisor thinks I should go for publication, so he’s being real hard on me.”<\/p>\n

Good luck with that.<\/p>\n

Here is a spooky story<\/a>, worthy of Fate<\/a> magazine. Political writer (and Orthodox Christian) Rod Dreher has his own ghost-story post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hotel room view, across Grant Park towards the Field Museum, Aquarium, etc. When I booked this hotel, across the street from the Chicago Hilton Hotel, the AAR‘s main annual meeting venue, I had no idea that it was only a block from one of Chicago’s Powell’s bookstores. M. and I are in deep trouble. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-ho","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1082,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1082","url_meta":{"origin":1078,"position":0},"title":"Gallimaufry & What Didn’t Happen","author":"Chas S. 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