{"id":44957,"date":"2016-01-04T03:27:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T03:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44957"},"modified":"2016-05-21T00:36:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T00:36:45","slug":"among-the-wild-mulattos-and-other-tales-by-tom-williams-npr-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44957","title":{"rendered":"Among The Wild Mulattos And Other Tales (By Tom Williams) [NPR Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.npr.org\/best-books-2015\/#\/book\/among-the-wild-mulattos-and-other-tales\" target=\"_blank\">Among The Wild Mulattos And Other Tales (By Tom Williams) [NPR Review]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apps.npr.org\/best-books-2015\" target=\"_blank\">NPR&#8217;s Book Concierge: Our Guide To 2015&#8217;s Great Reads<\/a><br \/>\nNational Public Radio<br \/>\n2015-12-08<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelschaub\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Schaub<\/a><\/strong>, book critic<\/p>\n<p><em>Produced by Nicole Cohen, Rose Friedman, Petra Mayer and Beth Novey<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Designed by Annette Elizabeth Allen, David Eads, Becky Lettenberger and Wes Lindamood<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Identity, both racial and otherwise, is at the heart of nearly all the stories in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42178\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Among the Wild Mulattos<\/em><\/a>, a manic, cutting and frequently hilarious collection from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kentucky\" target=\"_blank\">Kentucky<\/a> author and academic <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dubioustalents\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Williams<\/a>. He&#8217;s an uncompromising writer with a fiercely original voice, and he has created one of the most unforgettable books of the year. The collection feels vital, essential, not only for the unexpected ways Williams talks about identity but for his brash, gutsy writing.<\/p>\n<p>Read the review from 2015-08-07 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42251\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among The Wild Mulattos And Other Tales (By Tom Williams) [NPR Review] NPR&#8217;s Book Concierge: Our Guide To 2015&#8217;s Great Reads National Public Radio 2015-12-08 Michael Schaub, book critic Produced by Nicole Cohen, Rose Friedman, Petra Mayer and Beth Novey Designed by Annette Elizabeth Allen, David Eads, Becky Lettenberger and Wes Lindamood Identity, both racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,5,8,20],"tags":[20696,2309,2833,22541,20658],"class_list":["post-44957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-michael-schaub","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr","tag-nprs-book-concierge","tag-tom-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44957","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=44957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44958,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44957\/revisions\/44958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}