{"id":49370,"date":"2018-10-31T14:52:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T20:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=49370"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:26:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T21:26:43","slug":"author-tom-bennitt-visits-off-square-books-with-his-burning-under-on-november-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/author-tom-bennitt-visits-off-square-books-with-his-burning-under-on-november-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Tom Bennitt Visits Off Square Books with His &#8220;Burning Under&#8221; on November 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Set in southwestern Pennsylvania,\u00a0<strong><em>Burning Under<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is a cerebral literary thriller that centers around a deadly coalmine explosion. A polyphonic narrative, the point of view shifts between three people whose lives are shaken by the disaster. Larry, a veteran miner haunted by his past, survives the explosion, but cannot avoid the media spotlight or the\u00a0hero\u00a0label. Denise, a young nurse, tries to escape her troubled marriage by taking a job at a Pittsburgh hospital. And Simon is a disgruntled lawyer for Commonwealth Energy who suspects the accident was caused by his company\u2019s low safety and ethical standards. Assisted by his girlfriend, a Pittsburgh journalist, Simon digs around and uncovers a trail of evidence and a massive cover-up engineered by the CEO, George Blount. Linked by a common desire to expose the company, Simon, Larry, and Denise form an alliance; but George will do anything to conceal the truth and exact revenge, provoking a violent end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Tom Bennitt is the 2017-2018\u00a0Emerging Writer-in-Residence at Penn State-Altoona. He received his MFA in Fiction from the University of Mississippi.\u00a0<em>Burning Under<\/em>\u00a0is his debut novel.\u00a0<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\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set in southwestern Pennsylvania,\u00a0Burning Under\u00a0is a cerebral literary thriller that centers around a deadly coalmine explosion. A polyphonic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":49598,"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":[13444,448,13445],"class_list":["post-49370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-burning-under","tag-off-square-books","tag-tom-bennitt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-10-31-Tom-Bennitt-with-BURNING-UNDER.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49370","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=49370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}