{"id":1083,"date":"2005-09-13T22:12:53","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T02:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/13\/interview-roundup-marks-heart\/"},"modified":"2005-09-13T22:12:53","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T02:12:53","slug":"interview-roundup-marks-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/13\/interview-roundup-marks-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Roundup: Now Mark&#8217;s Heart Is Full"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jbanville1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/jbanville1.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"82\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>With the publication of Mark Sarvas&#8217;s interview with <A href=\"http:\/\/marksarvas.blogs.com\/elegvar\/2005\/09\/the_longawaited.html\">John Banville<\/A>, <I>The Elegant Variation<\/I> has pretty much fulfilled its reason for being, and Mark can now retire from blogging. But I&#8217;m glad he won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><UL><LI>Before she got famous on <I>Room 222<\/I>, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.calendarlive.com\/printedition\/calendar\/cl-et-nicholas12sep12,0,415411.story?coll=cl-calendar\">Denise Nicholas<\/A> was a theatrical activist in the civil rights movement, an experience that drives her debut novel, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/1932841105\"><I>Freshwater Road<\/I><\/A>. She talks about how her long-held dream to write about those years came to fruition after she joined a workshop led by Janet Fitch, and took the bold step of burning her diaries so as to avoid relying on them instead of her imagination.<\/p>\n<p><LI><A href=\"http:\/\/emergingwriters.typepad.com\/emerging_writers_network\/2005\/09\/live_epanel_lon.html\">A bunch of first-time writers<\/A>, including yours truly, got together with Dan Wickett of <I>Emerging Writers Network<\/I> to talk about how we got our deals and what we&#8217;ll be doing to convince you to buy our books. Richard Nash of Soft Skull drops by to tell us &#8220;it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all about expectations management.&#8221; And you know what? He&#8217;s right.<br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the publication of Mark Sarvas&#8217;s interview with John Banville, The Elegant Variation has pretty much fulfilled its reason for being, and Mark can now retire from blogging. But I&#8217;m glad he won&#8217;t. Before she got famous on Room 222, Denise Nicholas was a theatrical activist in the civil rights movement, an experience that drives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}