{"id":963,"date":"2013-07-09T16:07:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T20:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=963"},"modified":"2013-07-09T16:07:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T20:07:55","slug":"jessica-lotts-debut-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2013\/07\/09\/jessica-lotts-debut-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Lott&#8217;s debut novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2012\/08\/Jessica-Lott-headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2012\/08\/Jessica-Lott-headshot-220x300.jpg\" title=\"Jessica Lott headshot\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-556\" height=\"300\" width=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2012\/08\/Jessica-Lott-headshot-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2012\/08\/Jessica-Lott-headshot.jpg 486w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>Looking for a literary summer read? Simon &amp; Schuster has just published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Rest-Us-A-Novel\/dp\/1451645872\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1373399033&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=jessica+lott\"><em>The Rest of Us<\/em><\/a>, a debut novel by <a href=\"http:\/\/jessicalottauthor.com\/\">Jessica Lott<\/a> (Fiction 2004). Congratulations, Jessica!\ufeff\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<em>The Rest of Us<\/em> chronicles an affair between a young student and her older professor. Publishers Weekly has praised the book as &#8220;a finely wrought story, insightfully detailing the anguish of intense love and the struggles of an aspiring artist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Lott is a New York City\u2013based fiction and arts writer. Her novella <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Osin-Jessica-Lott\/dp\/0972336370\">Osin<\/a><\/em> won the Novella Award from Low Fidelity Press, judged by Aimee Bender. In addition to <em>Osin,<\/em> she has published short fiction, essays, and art reviews in the U.S. and internationally, including the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/14\/the-case-of-my-missing-confidence\/\">New York Times<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.frieze.com\/2009_writers_prize\/\">frieze<\/a><\/em>, and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyartsmagazine.com\/\">NY Arts<\/a><\/em>; her art criticism won the Arts Writer\u2019s Prize from the Frieze Foundation in London, and has been translated into Spanish for <em>Errata#<\/em> in Bogot\u00e1. At Boston  University she won the Graduate Fiction Award, and she holds an MA in  English and American Literature from Washington University in St. Louis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a literary summer read? Simon &amp; Schuster has just published The Rest of Us, a debut novel by Jessica Lott (Fiction 2004). Congratulations, Jessica!\ufeff\ufeff \ufeffThe Rest of Us chronicles an affair between a young student and her older professor. Publishers Weekly has praised the book as &#8220;a finely wrought story, insightfully detailing the [&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\/963"}],"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=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}