{"id":80107,"date":"2019-10-03T06:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=80107"},"modified":"2019-10-02T19:35:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T00:35:34","slug":"rion-amilcar-scott-will-be-on-thacker-mountain-radio-with-the-world-doesnt-require-you-thursday-october-3-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/rion-amilcar-scott-will-be-on-thacker-mountain-radio-with-the-world-doesnt-require-you-thursday-october-3-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Rion Amilcar Scott will be on Thacker Mountain Radio with “The World Doesn’t Require You”, Thursday, October 3, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Live from Off Square Books October 3, 2019 at 6 pm <\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The World Doesn\u2019t Require You<\/em> announces the arrival of a generational talent, as Rion Amilcar Scott shatters rigid genre lines to explore larger themes of religion, violence, and love\u2014all told with sly humor and a dash of magical realism.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Established by the leaders of the country\u2019s only successful slave revolt in the mid-nineteenth century, Cross River still evokes the fierce rhythms of its founding. In lyrical prose and singular dialect, a saga beats forward that echoes the fables carried down for generations\u2014like the screecher birds who swoop down for their periodic sacrifice, and the water women who lure men to wet deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Among its residents\u2014wildly spanning decades, perspectives, and species\u2014are David Sherman, a struggling musician who just happens to be God\u2019s last son; Tyrone, a ruthless PhD candidate, whose dissertation about a childhood game ignites mayhem in the neighboring, once-segregated town of Port Yooga; and Jim, an all-too-obedient robot who serves his Master. As the book builds to its finish with Special Topics in Loneliness Studies, a fully-realized novella, two unhinged professors grapple with hugely different ambitions, and the reader comes to appreciate the intricacy of the world Scott has created\u2014one where fantasy and reality are eternally at war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contemporary and essential, The World Doesn\u2019t Require You<\/em> is a \u201cleap into a blazing new level of brilliance\u201d (Lauren Groff) that affirms Rion Amilcar Scott as a writer whose storytelling gifts the world very much requires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Author<\/strong>
Rion Amilcar Scott’s first book, Insurrections, won the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review<\/em>, the Rumpus<\/em>, PANK<\/em>, and Confrontation<\/em>, among other publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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