{"id":5947,"date":"2025-09-24T18:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=5947"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:55:42","slug":"jared-harvey-publishes-new-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/jared-harvey-publishes-new-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Harvey&#8217;s new novel available now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lecturer <a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/bio\/jared-harvey\/\">Jared Harvey<\/a>&#8216;s latest novel is now available from\u00a0Asterism Books. <a href=\"https:\/\/asterismbooks.com\/product\/soft-lighting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Soft Lighting<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is written almost exclusively in the first-person singular and plural, and stages a motley of narrators (or only one) who respond to one another or who do not, and if not, I wonder whether desire for interpersonal connection withers, or excruciates. There is no setting. See if you are in it.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5949\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/09\/24181918\/Picture1-1-300x219.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/09\/24181918\/Picture1-1-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/09\/24181918\/Picture1-1-1024x746.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/09\/24181918\/Picture1-1-768x560.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/09\/24181918\/Picture1-1-1536x1120.png 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/09\/24181918\/Picture1-1.png 1962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Harvey will participate in a release reading on Sunday, October 19th, 7:00 PM, at <a href=\"https:\/\/randomsample.online\/\">Random Sample<\/a> in Nashville&#8217;s Sylvan Park.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecturer Jared Harvey&#8216;s latest novel is now available from\u00a0Asterism Books. Soft Lighting\u00a0is written almost exclusively in the first-person singular and plural, and stages a motley of narrators (or only one) who respond to one another or who do not, and if not, I wonder whether desire for interpersonal connection withers, or excruciates. There is no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":5948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,19,14,22],"tags":[5],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/09\/24181844\/Screenshot-2025-09-24-131418.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947"}],"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=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5971,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions\/5971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}