{"id":134104,"date":"2020-02-28T15:01:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T14:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/28\/georges-simenon-webchat-with-his-son-john-live\/"},"modified":"2020-02-28T15:01:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T14:01:17","slug":"georges-simenon-webchat-with-his-son-john-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=134104","title":{"rendered":"Georges Simenon webchat with his son John \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concluding our look at the Inspector Maigret mysteries, the author\u2019s son is with us to field your questions about his father\u2019s career 2.01pm GMT LeatherCol is reading Julian Barnes\u2019s excellent The Man in the Red Coat:In it he talks (predictably) of Flaubert, and something he says reminded me very much of reading Simenon: \u201c\u2018You cannot change humanity; you can only know it\u2019\u201d &#8230; so did Simenon enjoy reading Flaubert?Yes, and Maupassant, and you will not be surprised to know that Julian Barnes is also a great Simenon fan. 2.00pm GMT Feboke asks:Je souhaiterais savoir quel est l\u2019\u00e9tat d\u2019avancement des pourparlers avec la ville de Li\u00e8ge en ce qui concerne la cr\u00e9ation d\u2019un ensemble mus\u00e9al Georges Simenon dans sa ville natale. Et aussi vous demander, quelle est \u00e0 votre avis , la meilleure biographie de votre p\u00e8re.Les discussions sont au point mort, et la meilleure bio est celle de Pierre Assouline(the discussions are at a standstill and the best bio is by Pierre Assouline) Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/live\/2020\/feb\/25\/georges-simenon-webchat-with-his-son-john-post-your-questions-now\" target=\"_blank\">Georges Simenon webchat with his son John \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concluding our look at the Inspector Maigret mysteries, the author\u2019s son is with us to field your questions about his father\u2019s career 2.01pm GMT LeatherCol is reading Julian Barnes\u2019s excellent The Man in the Red Coat:In it he talks (predictably) of Flaubert, and something he says reminded me very much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}