{"id":1171,"date":"2011-02-24T01:53:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T05:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/24\/forgotten-borough-book-party\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T01:53:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T05:53:53","slug":"forgotten-borough-book-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/24\/forgotten-borough-book-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Come to the Forgotten Borough Book Party!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1170\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/forgotten-borough-cover.jpg\" alt=\"forgotten-borough-cover.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>I was thrilled when Nicole Steinberg asked me, close to two years ago, if I would be interested in participating in an anthology of essays by writers living in Queens (or who had lived here in the past); I brainstormed some fancy literary ideas on what I would write about, and then reality came crawling out of the woodwork to set me straight. If you want to find out what I mean by that, you should pick up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/1438435835\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Forgotten Borough: Writers Come to Terms with Queens<\/i><\/a>&#8212;but I&#8217;m amng the least of the attractions in a collection that gives you original writing by Julia Alvarez, Marcy Dermansky, Victor LaValle, Arthur Nersesian, Jill Eisenstadt, and a bunch of other writers besides.<\/p>\n<p>You will find many of us at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.licbar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">LIC Bar<\/a> in Long Island City Saturday, February 26, from 6 to 8 p.m., for the official <i>Forgotten Borough<\/i> release party. Nicole Cooley will join Dermansky and Nersesian in reading from their contributions, and I&#8217;m sure the rest of us who are there will be happy to sign books, too. If you&#8217;re on Facebook, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=108946792517192&#038;index=1\" target=\"_blank\">you can RSVP that way<\/a>, but really we&#8217;ll be delighted to see you without any advance warning, of course. If you can&#8217;t make it that night, don&#8217;t worry: Nicole assures me that other events are being planned around Queens throughout the spring. (I&#8217;ve volunteered to read at one of them, and if that comes to fruition I&#8217;ll be sure to let you know!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thrilled when Nicole Steinberg asked me, close to two years ago, if I would be interested in participating in an anthology of essays by writers living in Queens (or who had lived here in the past); I brainstormed some fancy literary ideas on what I would write about, and then reality came crawling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171"}],"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=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}