{"id":257,"date":"2022-09-28T12:02:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=257"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:26:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:26:24","slug":"michael-farris-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2020\/michael-farris-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Farris Smith"},"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\/mfsmith_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Farris Smith\" class=\"wp-image-245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/mfsmith_lg.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/mfsmith_lg-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">author of&nbsp;<strong><em>Blackwood<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Friday, October 23, 11:20 a.m.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael Farris Smith returns with his newest Southern Gothic novel, <em>Blackwood<\/em>, which\u00a0<em>Kirkus Reviews<\/em>\u00a0has praised as \u201cA gleaming, dark masterpiece by one of Southern fiction&#8217;s leading voices.\u201d Smith explores the fictional southwest Mississippi town of Red Bluff, where strange and desperate acts could be buried in the kudzu that engulfs the town. Smith is Associate Professor of English at Mississippi University for Women, where teaches creative writing, 20th-century fiction, and world literature. Smith has also published short fiction and written screenplay adaptations of several of his novels, which are currently in production. His previous novels include <em>The Hands of Strangers, Rivers, Desperation Road, and\u00a0The Fighter,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Nick<\/em>, along with his much anticipated prequel to <em>The Great Gatsby, <\/em>forthcoming in January, 2021<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelfarrissmith.com\">Author Website<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/michael-farris-smith\/blackwood-smith\/\">Kirkus Reviews<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Blackwood-Michael-Farris-Smith\/pid=9729125?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\">Booklist 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=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/blackwood_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Blackwood cover\" class=\"wp-image-303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/blackwood_lg.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/blackwood_lg-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of Blackwood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","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\/257","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=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}