{"id":468,"date":"2022-09-28T16:16:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T21:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=468"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:46:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T17:46:44","slug":"michael-farris-smith-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2017\/michael-farris-smith-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Farris Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/images\/welty\/authors17\/msmith_lg.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Farris Smith\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>author of&nbsp;<em>Desperation Road<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/images\/welty\/authors17\/covers\/desperationroad_sm.jpg\" alt=\"desperationroad sm\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Michael Farris Smith teaches creative writing at Mississippi University for Women. He&nbsp;&nbsp;will read from his second novel, \u201cDesperation Road,\u201d the story of a man and a woman who meet on a dark road in McComb, Mississippi., one holding a gun and both on the run. <em>Kirkus Reviews&nbsp;<\/em>praises it as a &#8220;smooth-flowing novel of the Deep South&#8221; that offers &#8220;a long-brewing hunger for vengeance and a slim chance of redemption.&#8221;&nbsp;Smith&#8217;s previous books include the novel&nbsp;<em>Rivers<\/em> and the novella&nbsp;<em>The Hands of Strangers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelfarrissmith.com\">Michael Farris Smith&#8217;s website<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/michael-farris-smith\/desperation-road\/\">Kirkus Reviews on Desperation Road<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of Desperation Road<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}