{"id":6175,"date":"2025-10-28T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=6175"},"modified":"2025-11-13T22:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T22:22:26","slug":"new-yorker-publishes-mfa-alum-nathan-blum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/new-yorker-publishes-mfa-alum-nathan-blum\/","title":{"rendered":"New Yorker publishes MFA alum Nathan Blum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6178 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/10\/28194929\/Picture1-3-e1761681031496-258x300.png\" alt=\"image of Blum\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/10\/28194929\/Picture1-3-e1761681031496-258x300.png 258w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/10\/28194929\/Picture1-3-e1761681031496.png 586w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6177\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/10\/28194833\/Screenshot-2025-10-28-144243-226x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/10\/28194833\/Screenshot-2025-10-28-144243-226x300.png 226w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/10\/28194833\/Screenshot-2025-10-28-144243.png 476w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A story by Creative Writing alum Nathan Blum (&#8217;25) appears in the November 3 issue of <em>The New Yorker<\/em><em>.\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;Outcomes&#8221; follows two college students who meet and form a connection. &#8220;I think I could set out to write about pretty much anything, and it would end up being in some way about education . . . I\u2019d bet that everyone I know can name the teacher or teachers who radically changed their life. So it doesn\u2019t seem all that wild, when I\u2019m developing characters, to ask questions about their relationship to learning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the story in <em>The New Yorker<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2025\/11\/03\/outcomes-fiction-nathan-blum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> or listen to the author read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/podcast\/the-writers-voice\/nathan-blum-reads-outcomes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read <em>The New Yorker<\/em>&#8216;s interview with Nathan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/this-week-in-fiction\/nathan-blum-11-03-25\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A story by Creative Writing alum Nathan Blum (&#8217;25) appears in the November 3 issue of The New Yorker.\u00a0&#8220;Outcomes&#8221; follows two college students who meet and form a connection. &#8220;I think I could set out to write about pretty much anything, and it would end up being in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":6179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,14,22],"tags":[5],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/10\/28195448\/Screenshot-2025-10-28-145429.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175"}],"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=6175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6180,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions\/6180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}