{"id":674,"date":"2010-07-12T13:47:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T17:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/12\/maggie-pouncey-greenlight\/"},"modified":"2010-07-25T13:55:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T17:55:26","slug":"maggie-pouncey-greenlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/12\/maggie-pouncey-greenlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggie Pouncey&#8217;s Perfect Reader at Greenlight Bookstore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image673\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/maggie-pouncey.jpg\" alt=\"maggie-pouncey.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>I&#8217;ll be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenlightbookstore.com\">Greenlight Bookstore<\/a> tonight for another installment of our monthly &#8220;Author\/Blogger&#8221; series. This time around, it&#8217;s a hyperlocal affair, as Robin Lester of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clintonhillblog.com\/\">Clinton Hill Blog<\/a> interviews Brooklyn-based Maggie Pouncey, who will be reading from her debut novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0307378748\"><i>Perfect Reader<\/i><\/a>. As always, we&#8217;ll also be fielding questions from the audience&#8212;and since it looks like it actually might not rain this month, I hope those of you reading this in New York City might be able to make it. (The reading starts at 7:30 p.m.; Greenlight is right at the Lafayette St. stop on the C line, and very close to the Atlantic Avenue nexus for several other subways.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m catching up with the back half of <i>Perfect Reader<\/i> this afternoon; it&#8217;s a great story about a twentysomething woman who&#8217;s struggling to deal with her father&#8217;s death, the situation exacerbated by his designation of her as his literary executor&#8212;including a collection of unpublished poems he wrote about his love for a girlfriend she never knew existed&#8212;who&#8217;s very eager to see those poems published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be at Greenlight Bookstore tonight for another installment of our monthly &#8220;Author\/Blogger&#8221; series. This time around, it&#8217;s a hyperlocal affair, as Robin Lester of Clinton Hill Blog interviews Brooklyn-based Maggie Pouncey, who will be reading from her debut novel, Perfect Reader. As always, we&#8217;ll also be fielding questions from the audience&#8212;and since it looks [&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\/674"}],"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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}