{"id":46967,"date":"2018-06-13T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=46967"},"modified":"2018-06-13T15:29:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T21:29:44","slug":"author-nick-white-signs-his-book-sweet-low-at-square-books-thursday-june-21-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/author-nick-white-signs-his-book-sweet-low-at-square-books-thursday-june-21-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Nick White Signs His Book “Sweet & Low” at Square Books Thursday, June 21, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Praised by the Washington Post<\/strong><\/em> as \u201cTennessee Williams . . . transposed\u00a0<\/span>to the twenty-first-century South,\u201d Nick White<\/strong> returns with a stunning\u00a0<\/span>short-story collection that tackles issues of masculinity, identity, and\u00a0<\/span>place, with a sharp eye for social commentary and a singular handling\u00a0<\/span>of character.\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

At first glance, the stories in Sweet and Low<\/em><\/strong> seem grounded in the\u00a0<\/span>everyday: they paint pictures of idyllic Southern landscapes,\u00a0<\/span>characters fulfilling their roles as students, wives, boyfriends, sons.\u00a0<\/span>But they are not what they seem. In these stories, Nick White\u00a0<\/span>deconstructs the core qualities of Southern fiction, exposing deeply\u00a0<\/span>flawed and fascinating characters\u2014promiscuous academics, aging podcasters, woodpecker\u00a0<\/span>assassins, and lawnmower enthusiasts, among others\u2014all on wildly compelling quests. From\u00a0<\/span>finding an elusive bear to locating a prized timepiece to making love on the grave of an iconic\u00a0<\/span>writer, each story is a thrilling adventure with unexpected turns. White\u2019s honest and provocative\u00a0<\/span>prose will jolt readers awake with its urgency.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nick White is the author of the novel How to Survive a Summer<\/strong><\/em>. His fiction and essays have\u00a0<\/span>appeared in The Kenyon Review<\/strong><\/em>, Guernica<\/strong><\/em>, The Literary Review<\/strong><\/em>, LitHub, and elsewhere. He\u00a0<\/span>teaches creative writing at the Ohio State University<\/strong>.\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Praised by the Washington Post as \u201cTennessee Williams . . . transposed\u00a0to the twenty-first-century South,\u201d Nick White returns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":47038,"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],"tags":[10536,10535,12709,12706,4483,12708,12707,11755],"class_list":["post-46967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-how-to-survive-a-summer","tag-nick-white","tag-ohio-state-university","tag-short-story-collection","tag-southern","tag-southern-fiction","tag-sweet-and-low","tag-washington-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Nick-White-BW-credit-Josh-Kertzer.jpg?fit=400%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46967","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=46967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}