{"id":270,"date":"2025-10-01T10:53:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:53:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:53:56","slug":"recent-reading-the-stone-door-by-leonora-carrington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/01\/recent-reading-the-stone-door-by-leonora-carrington\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Reading: The Stone Door, by Leonora Carrington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-stone-door-leonora-carrington\/702f62adb526314c?ean=9781681378947&amp;next=t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Stone Door<\/a><\/em>, by Leonora Carrington<\/strong>; NYRB Classics, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this surrealist novel, full of images from alchemy and astrology and occult lore, two people  try to find each other, but sometimes can\u2019t even find themselves. The stone door of the title is both a barrier and  a passage. Very different in tone from Carrington\u2019s novel <em>The Hearing Trumpet<\/em>, and not a light read. Stories within dreams within manuscripts within stories, with characters slipping across boundaries and transforming into others. Carrington challenges conventional notions of narrative, language, gender, and self. This is a book I could read many times and get something new from it each time. It has a werewolf, which is always a plus.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this surrealist novel, full of images from alchemy and astrology and occult lore, two people  try to find each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[26,31,25,32],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","tag-books","tag-leonora-carrington","tag-reading","tag-surrealism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}