{"id":3258,"date":"2019-09-12T16:08:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T21:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:/language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258///language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258//www.nicholls.edu/language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258//language/language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258//?p=3258"},"modified":"2019-09-14T21:06:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T21:06:37","slug":"novelist-mary-miller-to-be-fletcher-lecturer-oct-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258///language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258//www.nicholls.edu/language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258//language/language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258//2019/language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258//09/language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258//12/language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258//novelist-mary-miller-to-be-fletcher-lecturer-oct-3/language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258//","title":{"rendered":"Novelist Mary Miller to be Fletcher Lecturer Oct. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mary Miller, acclaimed author of Biloxi and The Last Days of California, a wide array of short fiction, and considered a preeminent coming-of-age writer, will be the 果冻APP 2019 Fletcher Lecturer./language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258/n Miller/language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258/u2019s presentation will be at 6 p.m. October 3, 2019, in the auditorium of Gouaux Hall on 果冻APP/language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258/u2019s campus. The talk is free and open to the public. Miller will sign books afterward. Books will be on sale in the lobby outside the auditorium. /language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258/u00a0Miller will host a question and answer session at 11 a.m. in the Le Bijou Theater in the 果冻APP Student Union./language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258/n Miller’s first novel, The Last Days of California, achieved critical and popular acclaim and novelist Alexis Smith has called it /language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258/u201cthe Sense and Sensibility of pre-Apocalypse America./language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258/u201d /language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258/u00a0Miller/language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258/u2019s short fiction has appeared in the Oxford American, New Stories from the South, McSweeney/language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258/u2019s Quarterly, American Short Fiction, Mississippi Review, among many others./language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258/u00a0 The National Book Review called her most recent collection of stories, Always Happy Hour, a /language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258/u201cstunning (and well-titled) collection of short fiction involving complicated, unprivileged women on the precipice of adulthood./language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258/u201d Biloxi is Miller/language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258/u2019s most recent novel, and it has already met with critical and popular acclaim./language/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/3258/n
