{"id":155945,"date":"2026-02-26T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=155945"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:43:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:43:44","slug":"thacker-mountain-radio-hour-and-square-books-present-dennard-dayle-for-how-to-dodge-a-cannonball-thursday-march-5-at-600-pm-at-the-powerhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/thacker-mountain-radio-hour-and-square-books-present-dennard-dayle-for-how-to-dodge-a-cannonball-thursday-march-5-at-600-pm-at-the-powerhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Thacker Mountain Radio Hour and Square Books present Dennard Dayle for &#8220;How to Dodge a Cannonball&#8221; Thursday, March 5 at 6 pm at The Powerhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About the Book<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>How to Dodge a Cannonball<\/em> is the great Civil War novel I didn\u2019t know I needed, but now it is never leaving my shelf.\u201d \u2014Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of <em>Our Country Friends<\/em> and <em>Super Sad True Love Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>How to Dodge a Cannonball<\/strong><\/em> is funnier than the Civil War should ever be. It follows Anders, a teenage idealist who enlists and reenlists to shape the American Future\u2014as soon as he figures out what that is, who it includes, and why everyone wants him to die for it. Escaping his violently insane mother is a bonus. Anders finds honor as a proud Union flag twirler\u2014until he\u2019s captured. Then he tries life as a diehard Confederate\u2014until fate asks him to die hard for the Confederacy at Gettysburg. Barely alive, Anders limps into a Black Union regiment in a stolen uniform. While visibly white, he claims to be an octoroon, and they claim to believe him. Only then does his life get truly strange. Uproariously funny and revelatory, <em>How to Dodge a Cannonball<\/em> asks if America is worth fighting for. And then answers loudly. Read it while it\u2019s still legal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dennard Dayle is a Brooklyn-based satirist. Dubbed &#8220;the new heavyweight in town&#8221; by the <em>New York Times<\/em> for his debut novel <em>How to Dodge a Cannonball<\/em>, Dennard is also behind the collection <em>Everything Abridged<\/em>, myriad New Yorker features, and the newsletter <em>Extra Evil<\/em>. He hopes you&#8217;re doing well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>How to Dodge a Cannonball&nbsp;<\/em><br>By Dennard Dayle&nbsp;<br>$28.99&nbsp;<br>Publisher: Henry Holt &amp; Company&nbsp;<br>ISBN: 9781250345677&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Book &#8220;How to Dodge a Cannonball is the great Civil War novel I didn\u2019t know I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":155946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239,25019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","category-thacker-mountain-radio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6a80d846-62ea-4d29-9c57-7af925e4ed12_91852798b59be8b28fc00edfe4aec23a.png?fit=810%2C425&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155945"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156193,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155945\/revisions\/156193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}