{"id":42178,"date":"2015-08-08T19:40:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T19:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42178"},"modified":"2019-05-27T20:01:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T20:01:03","slug":"among-the-wild-mulattos-and-other-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42178","title":{"rendered":"Among The Wild Mulattos and Other Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tamupress.com\/book\/9781680030181\/among-the-wild-mulattos-and-other-tales\/\">Among The Wild Mulattos and Other Tales<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tamupress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Review Press<\/a><br \/>\n2015-07-23<br \/>\n192 pages<br \/>\n5.5 x 6.5<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-68003-018-1<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dubioustalents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Williams<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tamupress.com\/book\/9781680030181\/among-the-wild-mulattos-and-other-tales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/texas-am.imgix.net\/covers\/9781680030181.jpg?auto=format&amp;h=648\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Set in the suburbs and cities of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Midwestern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midwest<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mid-South_(region)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mid-South<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas<\/a>, these stories explore the lives of characters biracial, black, white, and all sorts of in-between. The intersections and collisions of contemporary life are in full effect here, where the distinctions between fast food and fine art, noble and naked ambitions, reality and reality shows have become impossible to distinguish. Read these stories and understand why Steve Yarbrough said Williams \u201cwrites like Paul Auster if he were funnier or like Stanley Elkin might have if he\u2019d ever been able to stop laughing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set in the suburbs and cities of the Midwest, Mid-South, and Texas, these stories explore the lives of characters biracial, black, white, and all sorts of in-between. The intersections and collisions of contemporary life are in full effect here, where the distinctions between fast food and fine art, noble and naked ambitions, reality and reality shows have become impossible to distinguish. Read these stories and understand why Steve Yarbrough said Williams \u201cwrites like Paul Auster if he were funnier or like Stanley Elkin might have if he\u2019d ever been able to stop laughing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,20],"tags":[20657,20658],"class_list":["post-42178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-texas-review-press","tag-tom-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42178","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=42178"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58192,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42178\/revisions\/58192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}