{"id":1765,"date":"2022-01-08T16:21:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T16:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2025-08-07T18:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:13:36","slug":"4-7-2022-aimee-bender-fiction-reading-7-pm-face-masks-required-location-tba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/4-7-2022-aimee-bender-fiction-reading-7-pm-face-masks-required-location-tba\/","title":{"rendered":"(4\/7\/2022) Aimee Bender, fiction reading: 7 PM, Virtual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1720 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/12\/9780307744180-195x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><strong>Aimee Bender<\/strong> is the author of six books: <em>The Girl in the Flammable Skirt<\/em> (1998) which was a NY Times Notable Book, <em>An Invisible Sign of My Own<\/em> (2000) which was an L.A. Times pick of the year, <em>Willful Creatures<\/em> (2005) which was nominated by <em>The Believer<\/em> as one of the best books of the year,\u00a0<em>The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake<\/em> (2010) which won the SCIBA award for best fiction, and an Alex Award,\u00a0<em>The Color Master<\/em>, a NY Times Notable book for 2013, and her latest novel, <em>The Butterfly Lampshade<\/em>, which came out in July 2020, and was longlisted for the PEN\/Jean Stein Award.\u00a0Her books have been translated into sixteen languages.<\/p>\n<p>Her short fiction has been published in <em>Granta, GQ, Harper\u2019s, Tin House, McSweeney\u2019s, The Paris Review<\/em>, and more, as well as heard on PRI\u2019s \u201cThis American Life\u201dand \u201cSelected Shorts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She lives in Los Angeles\u00a0with her family, and\u00a0teaches creative writing at USC.<\/p>\n<p>aimeebender.com<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/vanderbilt.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_HzzA8WSZReqi9utBKVFoYw\">here<\/a> for link to virtual reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Aimee Bender is the author of six books: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (1998) which was a NY Times Notable Book, An Invisible Sign of My Own (2000) which was an L.A. Times pick of the year, Willful Creatures (2005) which was nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of&#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\/1765"}],"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=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}