{"id":22320,"date":"2012-04-08T22:53:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T22:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22320"},"modified":"2016-10-10T16:06:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T16:06:17","slug":"author-explores-racial-mixing-in-new-historical-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22320","title":{"rendered":"Author Explores Racial Mixing In New Historical Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" http:\/\/www.vpr.net\/news_detail\/93768\/author-explores-racial-mixing-in-new-historical-no\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Author Explores Racial Mixing In New Historical Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vpr.net\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\">VPR News<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vpr.net\" target=\"_blank\">Vermont Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2012-03-14<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vpr.net\/bio\/71\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Neal Charnoff<\/strong><\/a>, Reporter; Local Host<br \/>\n<em>All Things Considered<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We last heard from writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisaalther.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Alther<\/a> in 2007, when she spoke with VPR&#8217;s Neal Charnoff about her memoir, <em>Kinfolks<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Alther has returned to fiction in a big way with her epic historical novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=18804\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Washed In The Blood<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The book is a three-part multi-generational novel that combines romance with a study of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appalachia\" target=\"_blank\">Appalachian<\/a> culture and racial mixing in the south.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Alther, who shares time between Vermont and her native Tennessee has written seven books.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview (00:07:33) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vpr.net\/flash\/audio_player\/audio_player.php?id=36074\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> or download it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vpr.net\/audio_download.php?id=36074\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Explores Racial Mixing In New Historical Novel VPR News Vermont Public Radio 2012-03-14 Neal Charnoff, Reporter; Local Host All Things Considered We last heard from writer Lisa Alther in 2007, when she spoke with VPR&#8217;s Neal Charnoff about her memoir, Kinfolks. Alther has returned to fiction in a big way with her epic historical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,459,5113,20],"tags":[6797,10353,10354,10355],"class_list":["post-22320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-history","category-triracial","category-usa","tag-lisa-alther","tag-neal-charnoff","tag-vermont-public-radio","tag-vpr-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49393,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320\/revisions\/49393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}