{"id":14196,"date":"2015-03-05T21:37:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T02:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=14196"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:09:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:09:32","slug":"14196_montclair-public-library-hosts-local-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/2015\/03\/05\/14196_montclair-public-library-hosts-local-author\/","title":{"rendered":"Montclair Public Library Hosts Local Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Power of Place in New Jersey\u2013based Fiction<\/h2>\n<p><strong>with Dr. Ann McKinstry Micou<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> March 12, 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong> 7:00 PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> <span class=\"evpagetitle\"> <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.montclairlibrary.org\/in-the-library-2\/hourslocations\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Main Library - Auditorium\">Main Library \u2013 Auditorium<\/a>, <\/span>50 South Fullerton Avenue, Montclair<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description: <\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>What role does place play in literary fiction? Is it simply a backdrop or stage-setting for the action? How do writers convey place compellingly? Do they need to be born in a place to sound authentic? Why does Eudora Welty say, \u201cFiction depends for its <em>life<\/em> on place\u201d?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Local author Dr. Ann McKinstry Micou is set to discuss these questions and more at Montclair Public Library on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Thursday, March 12<\/span><\/span>, at <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">7 PM<\/span><\/span>. Her lecture, \u201cThe power of place in New Jersey-based fiction\u201d discusses the work of Pulitzer-Prize winning novelists Philip Roth, a native, Richard Ford, a transplant, and Junot Diaz, an immigrant. Does New Jersey matter to the narrators in their fiction? Can it affect their destinies?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>This event is free and open to the public. The library is handicapped accessible and can provide assistive listening devices upon request. For more information, call 973-744-0500 ext. 2235.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Upper Montclair resident, Dr. Micou, a retired teacher, communications director for international nonprofits, and currently freelance writer, received a D. Litt, from Drew University this past August.<\/p>\n<p>Event information retrieved from <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.montclairlibrary.org\/library-events\/the-power-of-place-in-new-jersey-based-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/www.montclairlibrary.org\/library-events\/the-power-of-place-in-new-jersey-based-fiction\/\">http:\/\/www.montclairlibrary.org\/library-events\/the-power-of-place-in-new-jersey-based-fiction\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Power of Place in New Jersey\u2013based Fiction with Dr. Ann McKinstry Micou<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-154_center-for-writing-excellence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119369,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14196\/revisions\/119369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}