{"id":1543,"date":"2021-08-03T02:57:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T02:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:24:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:24:30","slug":"deb-olin-unferth-fiction-nonfiction-101-buttrick-hall-face-masks-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/deb-olin-unferth-fiction-nonfiction-101-buttrick-hall-face-masks-required\/","title":{"rendered":"(9\/30\/2021) Deb Olin Unferth, fiction\/nonfiction (virtual reading): 7 PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1523 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/91vqi77yuvL-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>Deb Olin Unferth\u2019s<\/b> novels and short story collections are widely celebrated as wickedly comic and cutting edge. She is the author of six books of fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent book is the novel <em>Barn 8<\/em> (Graywolf, 2020 ). Her other books include the graphic novel <em>I, Parrot<\/em>(Catapult 2017) in collaboration with the illustrator Elizabeth Haidle; the memoir <em>Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War<\/em>; <em>Vacation <\/em>(McSweeney\u2019s 2008), winner of the Cabell First Novel Award; and the story collection <em>Minor Robberies <\/em>(McSweeney\u2019s 2007).\u00a0 She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in <em>Harper\u2019s, The Paris Review, Granta, Vice, Tin House, NOON, the New York Times<\/em>, and <em>McSweeney\u2019s. <\/em><em><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.theshipmanagency.com\/deb-olin-unferth. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theshipmanagency.com%2Fdeb-olin-unferth&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cluke.t.vines%40Vanderbilt.Edu%7Cf6ec85d661524099ef8908d96e290a1c%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C637661944802324640%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=2ZgRkQQM6RqMBTZzi6rMVZixSEwU6XfbqMTZV%2FpTa2w%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"2\">https:\/\/www.theshipmanagency.com\/deb-olin-unferth<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vanderbilt.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_IcQvFbvzTOyk0NXVw1admw\">Click here to register for this 9\/30 reading with\u00a0Deb Olin Unferth.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Gertrude &amp; Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series, click <a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/visiting-writers-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a downloadable and printable poster advertising all visiting writer events for AY 2021\/2022, click <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/22134317\/Visiting-Writers-Series-Poster-2021-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deb Olin Unferth\u2019s novels and short story collections are widely celebrated as wickedly comic and cutting edge. She is the author of six books of fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent book is the novel Barn 8 (Graywolf, 2020 ). Her other books include the graphic novel I, Parrot(Catapult 2017) in collaboration with the illustrator&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}