{"id":227,"date":"2022-09-28T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=227"},"modified":"2022-09-28T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:04:00","slug":"lee-durkee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2021\/lee-durkee\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Durkee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/ldurkee_lg.png\" alt=\"Lee Durkee\" class=\"wp-image-201\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/ldurkee_lg.png 269w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/ldurkee_lg-242x300.png 242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>author of <em>The Last Taxi Driver<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday, October 23, 11:40am<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee Durkee, a former taxi driver, lives in Oxford, Mississippi, and grew up in Hattiesburg, much like the main character of his second novel\u00a0<em>The Last Taxi Driver, <\/em>set in Gentry, a north Mississippi college town that Durkee describes as an alternative reality. \u00a0Also like his character, Durkee&#8217;s first novel,\u00a0<em>Rides of the Midway<\/em>, was also published about twenty years before his second. He has also published short fiction in\u00a0<em>Harper\u2019s Magazine, The Sun, The Best of the Oxford American, Zoetrope, Tin House<\/em>, and <em>Mississippi Noir,\u00a0<\/em>and his memoir\u00a0<em>Stalking Shakespeare<\/em>, is due out next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leedurkee.com\">Lee Durkee&#8217;s author site<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/welty\/authors21\/covers\/lasttaxi_lg.jpg\" alt=\"The Last Taxi Driver cover\" width=\"250\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of The Last Taxi Driver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}