{"id":5929,"date":"2025-09-19T19:40:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=5929"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:20:03","slug":"lydi-conklin-joins-the-gertrude-c-harold-s-vanderbilt-reading-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/lydi-conklin-joins-the-gertrude-c-harold-s-vanderbilt-reading-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Lydi Conklin joins the Gertrude C. &amp; Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/bio\/lydi-conklin\/\">Lydi Conklin<\/a> joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/reading-series\/\">Gertrude C. &amp; Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series<\/a> on September 4 to share their new novel <em><a href=\"https:\/\/books.catapult.co\/books\/songs-of-no-provenance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Songs of No Provenance<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>In addition to reading from the work, which the\u00a0<em>Chicago Review of Books\u00a0<\/em>called &#8220;a great American music novel . . .\u00a0 a lush, wild story, textured with sensory and technical descriptions of music and performance,&#8221; Lydi participated in a salon with current students. Musician CF Watkins accompanied Conklin with a song from the novel.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5934\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5934\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5934 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/09\/19193107\/Picture6-764x1024.png\" alt=\"Images from Conklin's reading\" width=\"750\" height=\"1005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/09\/19193107\/Picture6-764x1024.png 764w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/09\/19193107\/Picture6-224x300.png 224w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/09\/19193107\/Picture6-768x1029.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/09\/19193107\/Picture6-1146x1536.png 1146w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/09\/19193107\/Picture6-1528x2048.png 1528w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clockwise from top left: Lydi Conklin reads from their novel; Conklin with VU Special Collections curator and musician CF Watkins; Conklin at the book-signing; students share their work during an afternoon salon; attendance at Vanderbilt&#8217;s Special Collections Library; Watkins performs a song from the novel. Photos by Tim Gollins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor Lydi Conklin joined the Gertrude C. &amp; Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series on September 4 to share their new novel Songs of No Provenance.\u00a0In addition to reading from the work, which the\u00a0Chicago Review of Books\u00a0called &#8220;a great American music novel . . .\u00a0 a lush, wild story, textured with sensory and technical descriptions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":5938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,19,15],"tags":[5],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/09\/19194308\/Picture7.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929"}],"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\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5929"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6404,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5929\/revisions\/6404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}