{"id":560,"date":"2010-04-13T00:54:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T04:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/13\/voluptuous-horror-louisa-may-alcott\/"},"modified":"2010-05-02T23:44:12","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T03:44:12","slug":"voluptuous-horror-louisa-may-alcott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/13\/voluptuous-horror-louisa-may-alcott\/","title":{"rendered":"The Voluptuous Horror of Louisa May Alcott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image559\" align=\"right\" width=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/monsterthrowdownfinal.jpg\" alt=\"monsterthrowdownfinal.jpg\" \/>A few weeks ago, Lynn Messina asked me if I would be interested in hosting a literary event at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia theater on Manhattan&#8217;s Upper West Side, in which she, as the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0061976253\"><i>Little Vampire Women<\/i><\/a>, would be teaming up with Porter Grand, the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0345522605\"><i>Little Women and Werewolves<\/i><\/a>. Why, of course, I said; and would you like me to interview the two of you up there on the stage while we&#8217;re at it? Well, it turned out they already had a Louisa May Alcott biographer named John Matteson (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0393333590\">Eden&#8217;s Outcasts<\/i><\/a>) to handle that aspect of the evening&#8212;and good thing, too, as he&#8217;s probably much better qualified to talk about Alcott&#8217;s background in potboiler fiction. (For one thing, I&#8217;ve never actually even read <i>Little Women<\/i>, so I have my research work cut out for me over the next few weeks.)<\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symphonyspace.org\/event\/6278-monster-throwdown-vampires-werewolves-alcott\">come join us at the Thalia<\/a> on Thursday, May 6, as Messina and Grand discuss the challenges of taking a beloved American classic and rewriting it from top to bottom, and how you add a whole mess of monsters while still keeping the story close enough to the original to make the premise work. Among other things!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, Lynn Messina asked me if I would be interested in hosting a literary event at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia theater on Manhattan&#8217;s Upper West Side, in which she, as the author of Little Vampire Women, would be teaming up with Porter Grand, the author of Little Women and Werewolves. Why, of [&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\/560"}],"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=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}