{"id":259,"date":"2022-09-28T12:03:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=259"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:24:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:24:51","slug":"katy-simpson-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2020\/katy-simpson-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy Simpson 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\/ksmith_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Katy Simpson Smith\" class=\"wp-image-244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/ksmith_lg.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/ksmith_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>&nbsp;<em>The Everlasting<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Saturday, October 24, 10:40 a.m.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Katy Simpson Smith returns to the symposium with her third novel,&nbsp;<em>The Everlasting<\/em>, in which she weaves together four stories from four centuries, contemplating love, the body, and mortality, all connected by ancient Rome, a fish hook, a saint, and the ultimate unreliable narrator, Satan. <em>Kirkus Reviews<\/em> calls it &#8220;a sparkling historical novel&#8221; that &#8220;bounds through 2,000 years of history, following four indelible characters as they grapple with questions of faith, freedom, and transgressive love.&#8221;&nbsp;A native of Jackson, Mississippi, Smith has served as Eudora Welty Chair for Southern Literature at Millsaps College and now lives and writes in New Orleans. Her previous novels are <em>The Story of Land and Sea<\/em> and <em>Free Men. <\/em>She is also the author of the scholarly title&nbsp;<em>We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katysimpsonsmith.com\">Author Website<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/katy-simpson-smith\/the-everlasting\/\">Kirkus Reviews<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:49px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/everlasting_lg.jpg\" alt=\"The Everlasting cover\" class=\"wp-image-300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/everlasting_lg.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/everlasting_lg-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of The Everlasting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","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\/259","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=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}