{"id":2096,"date":"2009-10-02T09:43:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T13:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2009-10-02T09:43:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T13:43:58","slug":"city-lights-no-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/city-lights-no-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"City Lights&#039; No Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/citylights.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2099 lazyload\" title=\"citylights\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/citylights-300x47.gif\" alt=\"citylights\" width=\"382\" height=\"59\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 382px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 382\/59;\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The City Lights No Contest<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In a recent interview with PRI&#8217;s World Books, <em>Beauty Salon<\/em> author <strong>Mario Bellatin<\/strong> described a writing technique called the &#8220;No Method&#8221;: &#8220;For years I tried to create for myself a method of writing that would be my own. I called it the No Method, not because it was influenced by the Japanese theatrical form of that name, but rather because it was about appending a &#8216;no&#8217; to all the elements that supposedly make up literary texts. No adjectives, no dialogue, no space, no time, no omniscience, no names, and so on and so forth, until I had compiled a long list of noes. It was in that way, restricted all the way down to the most minimal aspects, that I began to see that, in a certain sense, things could be named anew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Our challenge to you: use Bellatin&#8217;s No Method&#8211;no adjectives, no dialogue, no space, no time, no omniscience, no names&#8211;to write a short piece of fiction (under 200 words), and send your entry to contest@citylights.com under the subject line &#8220;No Contest.&#8221; The person with the best entry will receive a free copy of Beauty Salon and a choice of four other books from our City Lights Publishers Literature in Translation list. Submissions are due no later than October 15, 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The winner will be announced in our November newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City Lights No Contest In a recent interview with PRI&#8217;s World Books, Beauty Salon author Mario Bellatin described a writing technique called the &#8220;No Method&#8221;: &#8220;For years I tried to create for myself&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[183,245,563],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beauty-salon","tag-city-lights","tag-no-contest-mario-bellatin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}