{"id":255,"date":"2022-09-28T12:01:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=255"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:28:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:28:14","slug":"m-o-walsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2020\/m-o-walsh\/","title":{"rendered":"M.O. Walsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"269\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/mwalsh_lg.jpg\" alt=\"M. O. Walsh\" class=\"wp-image-246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/mwalsh_lg.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/mwalsh_lg-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">author of<strong> <em>The Big Door Prize<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Friday, October 23, 7 p.m.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0M. O. Walsh will read from his second novel <em>The Big Door Prize<\/em>. Inspired by the lyrics of the late John Prine, Walsh has crafted a warm-hearted, inventive novel that the <em>Atlanta Journal Constitution<\/em>\u00a0praised saying, &#8220;There&#8217;s no better antidote to a global pandemic and a fractious presidential campaign\u2026&#8221; In the small town of Deerfield, Louisiana., a DNAMIX machine appears in the local grocery that uses DNA to reveal a person\u2019s true potential, altering the courses of many resident\u2019s lives. Walsh directs the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans. His previous books are the novel\u00a0<em>My Sunshine Away <\/em>and the story collection\u00a0<em>The Prospect of Magic.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mowalsh.com\">Author Website<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/things-to-do\/big-door-prize-mines-humor-in-twisted-tale-of-fate\/HNYS2EESARE57CJ5URY2ZAJXCE\/\">Atlanta Journal Constitution Review<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/978-0-7352-1848-2\">Publisher&#8217;s Weekly Review<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/bigdoorprize_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Big Door Prize cover\" class=\"wp-image-305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/bigdoorprize_lg.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/bigdoorprize_lg-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of The Big Door Prize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}