{"id":2987,"date":"2021-10-04T12:16:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T16:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2021-10-04T12:16:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T16:16:44","slug":"laura-marris-to-publish-book-with-graywolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2021\/10\/04\/laura-marris-to-publish-book-with-graywolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Marris to Publish Book with Graywolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2021\/10\/04\/laura-marris-to-publish-book-with-graywolf\/marris_photo_credit-matt-kenyon\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2991\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2021\/10\/Marris_Photo_Credit-Matt-Kenyon-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"Marris_Photo_Credit Matt Kenyon\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2021\/10\/Marris_Photo_Credit-Matt-Kenyon-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2021\/10\/Marris_Photo_Credit-Matt-Kenyon-768x666.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2021\/10\/Marris_Photo_Credit-Matt-Kenyon-1024x889.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Boston University Creative Writing alum and former Favorite Poem Project Director Laura Marris&#8217;s (poetry &#8217;13) book\u00a0<em>The Age of Loneliness<\/em> has been picked up by Graywolf.<\/p>\n<p>The book is a series of essays that explore loneliness through both personal and ecological lenses. The book pays great attention to where these perspectives overlap, illuminating the losses experienced by humans and the coping that must be done to live with the absences left behind.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Laura!<\/p>\n<p><span>Laura Marris is a writer and translator. Her writing has appeared in\u00a0<\/span><i>The New York Times, The Believer,<\/i><span>\u00a0<\/span><i>The Yale Review<\/i><span>,\u00a0<\/span><i>The Point<\/i><span>\u00a0and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by a MacDowell Fellowship and a Daniel Varoujan Award. Recent translations include Albert Camus\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><i>The Plague<\/i><span>, which<\/span><i><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span>comes out from Knopf in November. With Alice Kaplan, she is also the co-author of\u00a0<\/span><i>States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span>(University of Chicago Press, 2022).<\/span><i><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span>Her first solo-authored book, The Age of Loneliness, will be published by Graywolf in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: Matt Kenyon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University Creative Writing alum and former Favorite Poem Project Director Laura Marris&#8217;s (poetry &#8217;13) book\u00a0The Age of Loneliness has been picked up by Graywolf. The book is a series of essays that explore loneliness through both personal and ecological lenses. The book pays great attention to where these perspectives overlap, illuminating the losses experienced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,8790],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987"}],"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=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}