{"id":104869,"date":"2016-11-16T10:30:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T15:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=104869"},"modified":"2016-11-17T17:02:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T22:02:47","slug":"autumn-hours-part-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/16\/autumn-hours-part-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Hours, Part 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/no-deal-header.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-104870\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/no-deal-header.jpg\" alt=\"no-deal-header\" width=\"568\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>This is the last entry in Vanessa Davis\u2019s column. Catch up with earlier installments\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/tag\/summer-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/unnamed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-104960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"600\" height=\"2470\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/nodealwb.jpg\"><br \/><\/a><em>Vanessa Davis is the author of the collections\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781770462564\" target=\"_blank\">Spaniel Rage<\/a><em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/make-me-a-woman\" target=\"_blank\">Make Me a Woman<\/a><em>. 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