{"id":61911,"date":"2021-10-21T18:18:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T18:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61911"},"modified":"2021-10-21T18:18:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T18:18:37","slug":"loves-perils-traumas-wounds-new-story-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61911","title":{"rendered":"Love\u2019s Perils, Trauma\u2019s Wounds: New Story Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/15\/books\/review\/stapleton-ye-ospina.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Love\u2019s Perils, Trauma\u2019s Wounds: New Story Collections<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2021-10-15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tracyoneill.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tracy O\u2019Neill<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/15\/books\/review\/stapleton-ye-ospina.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2021\/10\/05\/books\/review\/shortlist_oneill1\/shortlist_oneill1-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE RUIN OF EVERYTHING<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larastapleton.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lara Stapleton<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>123 pp. Paloma Press. Paper, $18.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If love conquers all, in Stapleton\u2019s second story collection it\u2019s not clear then whether anyone wins much of anything from it. There is plenty of sex in this book, but little is erotic. Bringing someone to bed skews more toward self-medicating. The fantasy tends to begin and end with being someone worth desiring. Careening in tone from fairy tale to social satire to grim, confessional emails, these stories center on wounded devotees of intimacy. \u201cThe way I love people is to consume them,\u201d one narrator muses. \u201cI didn\u2019t want him to know that I eat with love.\u201d But carnal enterprise fails to compensate for the disappointments of broken homes, previous demoralizing romances, artistic failure and a sense of meager privilege. To the women who love too much, heterosexuality is, predictably, a prison&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/15\/books\/review\/stapleton-ye-ospina.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love\u2019s Perils, Trauma\u2019s Wounds: New Story Collections The New York Times 2021-10-15 Tracy O\u2019Neill THE RUIN OF EVERYTHING By Lara Stapleton 123 pp. Paloma Press. Paper, $18. If love conquers all, in Stapleton\u2019s second story collection it\u2019s not clear then whether anyone wins much of anything from it. There is plenty of sex in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,20],"tags":[31598,2640,2327,32157],"class_list":["post-61911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-lara-stapleton","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-tracy-oneill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61911","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=61911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61913,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61911\/revisions\/61913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}