{"id":696,"date":"2013-01-02T17:44:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T20:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=696"},"modified":"2013-01-02T17:46:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T20:46:38","slug":"jim-gavin-in-the-la-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2013\/01\/02\/jim-gavin-in-the-la-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Gavin in the LA Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2013\/01\/gavin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-697\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2013\/01\/gavin-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2013\/01\/gavin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2013\/01\/gavin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2013\/01\/gavin.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Los Angeles Times has selected <a href=\"http:\/\/jim-gavin.com\/\">Jim Gavin<\/a> (Fiction 2011), as one of their <a href=\"http:\/\/graphics.latimes.com\/storyboard-faces-watch-2013\/\">&#8220;Faces to watch in 2013.&#8221;<\/a> (Follow the link and then click &#8220;Books.&#8221;) Jim&#8217;s first collection of short fiction, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.simonandschuster.com\/Middle-Men\/Jim-Gavin\/9781451649369\"><em>Middle Men<\/em><\/a>, will be published by Simon &amp; Schuster next month.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/jim-gavin\/middle-men\/\">starred review<\/a>, Kirkus called <em>Middle Men &#8220;<\/em>exceptional<em>&#8230;<\/em>the best kind of satire: barbed and hilarious, but suffused with compassion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jim&#8217;s work has appeared in the<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2010\/11\/this-week-in-fiction-jim-gavin.html\">New Yorker<\/a><\/em> (full text of the story available online), the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6175\/bewildered-decisions-in-times-of-mercantile-terror-jim-gavin\">Paris Review<\/a><\/em> (ditto), and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zyzzyva.org\/\">Zyzzyva<\/a><\/em>. He received one of our 2011 Global Fellowships in Fiction, which he used to travel to Nicaragua. Jim was a Stegner Fellow before coming to BU to get his MFA.<\/p>\n<p><em>Middle Men<\/em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Middle-Men-Stories-Jim-Gavin\/dp\/1451649312\">available for preorder here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Fred Schroeder, Simon &amp; Schuster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times has selected Jim Gavin (Fiction 2011), as one of their &#8220;Faces to watch in 2013.&#8221; (Follow the link and then click &#8220;Books.&#8221;) Jim&#8217;s first collection of short fiction, Middle Men, will be published by Simon &amp; Schuster next month. In a starred review, Kirkus called Middle Men &#8220;exceptional&#8230;the best kind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"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=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}