{"id":2906,"date":"2021-05-20T16:19:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T20:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2021-05-21T11:27:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:27:47","slug":"2906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2021\/05\/20\/2906\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacy Mattingly publishes essay in Off Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2020\/08\/10\/stacy-mattingly-publishes-essay-on-lit-hub\/stacymattingly-photo-to-lithub-sent-072420\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2827\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2020\/08\/StacyMattingly-photo-to-LitHub-sent-072420.jpg\" alt=\"StacyMattingly--photo to LitHub sent 072420\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2827\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stacy\u00a0Mattingly (Fiction &#8217;11) published a moving essay about a bit of family history in <em>Off Assignment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>The essay, called\u00a0&#8220;To the Spy I&#8217;m Named For,&#8221; is part of the\u00a0excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offassignment.com\/read\">&#8220;Letter to a Stranger&#8221;<\/a> column.\u00a0 Read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offassignment.com\/articles\/stacy-mattingly2\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Off Assignment<\/em>\u00a0had this to say about the piece:<\/p>\n<p><em>R was a spy, a diplomat from Mississippi, a CIA man in South America. What is the legacy of his name, of his shrouded past? Writing about her namesake, author @stacemattingly lifts the veil on the mysterious generational impulses that guide our paths, taking us from the American South to Sarajevo to snowy Boston to tell us a family story that delicately navigates the line between the memorable and the unknowable.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stacy also contributed a &#8220;Behind the Essay&#8221; interview, which you can find\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/offassignment\/isle-of-spies\">here<\/a>\u00a0or linked in her bio below the essay.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Stacy!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stacymattingly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stacy Mattingly<\/a><strong> <\/strong>is a writer living in Boston. She launched the Sarajevo Writers\u2019 Workshop in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2012 and later helped lead the first Narrative Witness exchange (Caracas-Sarajevo) for the International Writing Program. She has recently completed a first novel set in the present-day Balkans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stacy\u00a0Mattingly (Fiction &#8217;11) published a moving essay about a bit of family history in Off Assignment.\u00a0\u00a0The essay, called\u00a0&#8220;To the Spy I&#8217;m Named For,&#8221; is part of the\u00a0excellent &#8220;Letter to a Stranger&#8221; column.\u00a0 Read it here! Off Assignment\u00a0had this to say about the piece: R was a spy, a diplomat from Mississippi, a CIA man in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,8791,8790],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906"}],"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=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions\/2914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}