{"id":43034,"date":"2016-03-08T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=43034"},"modified":"2016-03-07T15:04:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T21:04:18","slug":"reading-series-hurt-people-and-fake-literary-mailbag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2016\/03\/08\/reading-series-hurt-people-and-fake-literary-mailbag\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Series: Hurt People and Fake Literary Mailbag"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Sunflower <span class=\"il\">Reading<\/span> <span class=\"il\">Series<\/span> &#8211; 2\/29\/16<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>This week KU alum and lecturer Cote Smith reads from\u00a0and discusses his new, debut novel <i>Hurt People, <\/i>which is set in Leavenworth, Kansas and which\u00a0<i>Publishers Weekly<\/i> lauded for its &#8220;razor-sharp characterizations&#8221; and &#8220;richly evoked period settings.&#8221; Among other things, we\u00a0discuss Cote&#8217;s writing process and how he adapted his short story of the same title (which he wrote as an MFA student at KU) into the just-released novel. Our second segment of the week has our three co-hosts fielding question from our &#8220;Fake Literary Mailbag&#8221; and chatting about overrated classics, the best bookstores in the world, and what writers we&#8217;d like to have a beer with.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Cote Smith<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kjhk\/sunflower-reading-series-cote-smith&amp;color=993300&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=false&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>Writer and KU lecturer Cote Smith talks with us about his debut novel, <i>Hurt People<\/i>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Fake Mailbag<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kjhk\/sunflower-reading-series-fake-literary-mailbag&amp;color=993300&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=false&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nAll the literary questions you ever wanted answered (and more!)\u00a0are fielded as our hosts dig into our &#8220;Fake Literary Mailbag.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunflower Reading Series &#8211; 2\/29\/16 This week KU alum and lecturer Cote Smith reads from\u00a0and discusses his new, debut novel Hurt People, which is set in Leavenworth, Kansas and which\u00a0Publishers Weekly lauded for its &#8220;razor-sharp characterizations&#8221; and &#8220;richly evoked period settings.&#8221; Among other things, we\u00a0discuss Cote&#8217;s writing process and how he adapted his short story of the same title (which he wrote as an MFA student at KU) into the just-released novel. Our second segment of the week has our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4332,"featured_media":43035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3227,15],"tags":[4604,4602,4601,4603,2122],"class_list":["post-43034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-culture-podcasts","category-featured-on-kjhk","tag-cote-smith","tag-fake-literary-mailbag","tag-hurt-people","tag-publishers-weekly","tag-reading-series-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/KJHK_8.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}