{"id":57084,"date":"2019-03-27T09:51:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T13:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=57084"},"modified":"2019-03-28T11:04:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:04:58","slug":"book-launch-set-english-profs-short-story-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/03\/book-launch-set-english-profs-short-story-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Book launch set for English prof&#8217;s short story collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A book launch will be held to celebrate English Professor Tim Conley\u2019s latest collection of short stories, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collapsible<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, on Friday, March 29.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Influenced by authors such as Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov, the 30 fictional stories that make up <\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstarbooks.com\/book.php?book_id=1554201519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collapsible<\/span><\/a><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> explore the strange, the curious and the delightful, from a universe where werewolves excite ridicule instead of fear to one where birthdays are occasions for forgetting, not remembering. Conley will ready from the book and copies will be available for purchase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conley has written several books of fiction, poetry and criticism. He teaches courses on international modernism and contemporary literature, and his research focuses on James Joyce, Beckett, Nabokov and Borges, as well as an array of experimental novelists and avant-garde poets. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The book launch begins at 7 p.m. at the Niagara Artists\u2019 Centre, 354 St. Paul St. in downtown St. Catharines.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book launch will be held to celebrate English Professor Tim Conley\u2019s latest collection of short stories, Collapsible, on Friday, March 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,37],"tags":[7735,76,30,7734,6137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57084"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57115,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57084\/revisions\/57115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}