{"id":114002,"date":"2023-03-08T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=114002"},"modified":"2023-03-08T08:12:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T13:12:13","slug":"march-20-415-p-m-brendan-jones-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/march-20-415-p-m-brendan-jones-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"March 20 @ 4:15 p.m. &#8211; Brendan Jones Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The English Department is pleased to welcome Brendan Isaac Jones on Monday, March 20, from 4:15-5:15 pm in the Milligan Room of Slocum Hall. Jones is a novelist, essayist, and journalist primarily interested in drawing attention to environmental issues concerning the Tongass rainforest in Alaska. He is the author, most recently, of the young adult novel <em>Whispering Alaska<\/em> and the novel <em>The Alaskan Laundry<\/em>, and his essays and works of literary journalism have appeared in The New York Times, The Smithsonian, The Huffington Post, Narrative Magazine, the Anchorage Daily News, and NPR. He is a graduate of Oxford University and Stanford University, where he was awarded a Stegner Fellowship in fiction, and is the recent recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in Russia. In addition to teaching, he has also worked as a carpenter, sea cucumber deckhand, commercial fisherman, book-stacker in a library for the blind, and farmhand, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Join Jones 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; Poets and Writers Series<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 Brendan Isaac Jones on Monday, March 20, from 4:15-5:15 pm in the Milligan Room of Slocum Hall. Jones is a novelist, essayist, and journalist primarily interested in drawing attention to environmental issues concerning the Tongass rainforest in Alaska. He is the author, most recently, of the young adult [&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-114002","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\/114002","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=114002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114030,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114002\/revisions\/114030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}