{"id":113770,"date":"2023-02-27T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=113770"},"modified":"2023-03-01T20:42:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T01:42:03","slug":"march-2-415-p-m-chinelo-okparanta-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/march-2-415-p-m-chinelo-okparanta-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2 @ 4:15 p.m. &#8211; Chinelo Okparanta Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The English Department is pleased to welcome novelist Chinelo Okparanta as our Michael C. Quinn Memorial Lecturer on Thursday, March 2, from 4:15-5:15 pm in the Milligan Room of Slocum Hall. Chinelo Okparanta is a Nigerian American novelist and author of the recent novel <em>Harry Sylvester Bird<\/em>, named a \u201cBest Book of the Summer,\u201d \u201cMost Anticipated,\u201d and \u201cNew And Noteworthy Book\u201d by Esquire, Cosmopolitan, LitHub, Book Riot, Ms. Magazine, The Millions, Lambda Literary, Poets &amp; Writers, and more. She is also the author of the short story collection H<em>appiness, Like Water<\/em>, and the novel <em>Under The Udala Trees<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Join Okparanta for a reading followed by a Q&amp;A and book signing. This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: English Department &#8211; Michael C. Quinn Memorial Reading<br \/>\nContact: Beth Fedoush at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:eng@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eng@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English Department is pleased to welcome novelist Chinelo Okparanta as our Michael C. Quinn Memorial Lecturer on Thursday, March 2, from 4:15-5:15 pm in the Milligan Room of Slocum Hall. Chinelo Okparanta is a Nigerian American novelist and author of the recent novel Harry Sylvester Bird, named a \u201cBest Book of the Summer,\u201d \u201cMost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113878,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113770\/revisions\/113878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}