{"id":1904,"date":"2015-05-29T11:49:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T15:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2015-05-29T11:54:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T15:54:37","slug":"christopher-robinson-and-gavin-kovite-publish-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2015\/05\/29\/christopher-robinson-and-gavin-kovite-publish-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite publish novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/05\/wotecover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/05\/wotecover-678x1024.jpg\" alt=\"wotecover\" width=\"434\" height=\"655\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/05\/wotecover-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/05\/wotecover-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/05\/wotecover.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a>Christopher Robinson (Poetry 2006) and his friend,\u00a0Gavin Kovite, have written a novel together called\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/xmail.bu.edu\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=XLNU-C4-2Ue4B3yAp7JRtXKCnCh8a9II4MM_WtwcFb4xqjhp3B8pEkw24RFaUhY-hsfgurMKZsQ.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.amazon.com%2fs%2fref%3dnb_sb_noss_1%3furl%3dsearch-alias%253Daps%26field-keywords%3dwar%2bof%2bthe%2bencyclopaedists\" target=\"_blank\">War of the Encyclopaedists<\/a><\/em>!\u00a0The book\u00a0was published by Scribner on May 19 and has been receiving fantastic\u00a0press all month, including\u00a0a review in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/12\/books\/review-war-of-the-encyclopaedists-by-christopher-robinson-and-gavin-kovite.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0a profile in\u00a0the\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/entertainment\/books\/a-poet-and-a-soldier-collaborate-on-novel-about-seattle-millennials\/\">Seattle Times<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>and an interview in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/war-of-the-encyclopaedists-debuts-may-19-1430848111\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The novel, based loosely on the authors&#8217; lives, follows two friends from Seattle whose paths diverge when one of them moves to Boston to attend grad school at BU while the other deploys to Baghdad through the National Guard. They keep in touch by editing an absurd Wikipedia article about themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to catch them at their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.com\/event\/christopher_robinson_and_gavin_kovite\/\" target=\"_blank\">reading at Harvard Book Store<\/a> on Friday, June 5th at 7 PM.<\/p>\n<p><span>You can read more about the book at their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robinsonkovite.com\">website<\/a><\/span>\u00a0or <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/robinsonkovite\">facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Chris and Gavin!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/05\/chris_gav_laughing_brickwall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/05\/chris_gav_laughing_brickwall-1024x730.jpg\" alt=\"chris_gav_laughing_brickwall\" width=\"532\" height=\"379\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/05\/chris_gav_laughing_brickwall-1024x730.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/05\/chris_gav_laughing_brickwall-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Robinson (Poetry 2006) and his friend,\u00a0Gavin Kovite, have written a novel together called\u00a0War of the Encyclopaedists!\u00a0The book\u00a0was published by Scribner on May 19 and has been receiving fantastic\u00a0press all month, including\u00a0a review in the\u00a0New York Times,\u00a0a profile in\u00a0the\u00a0Seattle Times,\u00a0and an interview in the Wall Street Journal. The novel, based loosely on the authors&#8217; lives, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,4165,1353],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}