{"id":472,"date":"2022-09-28T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/?p=472"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:44:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T17:44:48","slug":"mary-miller-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/2017\/mary-miller-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/images\/welty\/authors17\/mmiller_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>author of <em>Always Happy Hour<\/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\/alwayshappyhour_sm.jpg\" alt=\"alwayshappyhour sm\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Mary Miller &nbsp;will read from her most recent story collection, <em>Always Happy Hour, <\/em>which according to&nbsp;<em>Publisher\u2019s Weekly<\/em> &#8220;feels so true because it never glosses over the desperate or unflattering portrayals of its narrators, but neither does it exploit their faults.\u201d Miller teaches in The W\u2019s low-residency MFA program. Her previous books include the novel&nbsp;<em>Last Days of California&nbsp;<\/em>and the story collection&nbsp;<em>Big World.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryumiller.net\">Mary Miller&#8217;s website<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/fictionwritersreview.com\/review\/always-happy-hour-by-mary-miller\/\">Fiction Writers Review of Always Happy Hour<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/978-1-63149-218-1\">Publisher&#8217;s Weekly review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>author of Always Happy Hour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","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\/472","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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/welty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}