{"id":273,"date":"2022-09-28T12:08:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=273"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:12:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:12:47","slug":"s-a-cosby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2020\/s-a-cosby\/","title":{"rendered":"S. A. Cosby"},"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\/scosby_lg.jpg\" alt=\"S. A. Cosby\" class=\"wp-image-248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/scosby_lg.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/scosby_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>Blacktop Wasteland<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Friday, October 23, 10 a.m.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>S. A. Cosby hails from Southeastern Virginia, where he writes fiction, works as a mortician&#8217;s assistant, and is an avid hiker and chess player. &nbsp;In the title of its review,&nbsp;<em>The<\/em>&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;has called <em>Blacktop Wasteland,<\/em>&nbsp;\u201cA Roaring, Full-Throttle Thriller, Crackling With Tension and Charm,\u201d praising it as &#8220;a gritty, thrilling reminder that small-town America has an underbelly, too.&#8221; Set in rural Virginia, the novel follows amateur drag racer Beauregard \u201cBug\u201d Montage as he must choose whether or not to follow his father\u2019s path of crime as a getaway driver, in order to save his small-town mechanic shop. It is a story of the clash between Black male identity and Southern identity within its main character and late at night where men gather to race on lonely highways. Previous novels by S. A. Cosby include&nbsp;<em>My Darkest Prayer<\/em> and <em>Brotherhood of the Blade<\/em>. His&nbsp;short story, \u201cSlant-Six,\u201d in which Bug Montage first appeared,&nbsp;was selected as a&nbsp;distinguished story for Best American Mystery Stories in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thewalkingbook.wordpress.com\">S. A. Cosby&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/17\/books\/review\/blacktop-wasteland-s-a-cosby.html\">New York Times Book Review<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/07\/19\/892331415\/take-a-dangerous-ride-through-blacktop-wasteland\">NPR Book 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=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/blacktopwasteland_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Blacktop Wasteland cover\" class=\"wp-image-281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/blacktopwasteland_lg.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/09\/blacktopwasteland_lg-193x300.jpg 193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of Blacktop Wasteland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","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\/273","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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}