{"id":122,"date":"2007-03-04T15:14:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T20:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=122"},"modified":"2012-02-27T18:38:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T23:38:53","slug":"bss-99-tayari-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/bss-99-tayari-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Tayari Jones (BSS #99)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tayari Jones is most recently the author of <i>Leaving Atlanta<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/tayari2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tayari2\" width=\"460\" height=\"320\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2069\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-122-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo99.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo99.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo99.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo99.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=122-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo99.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo99.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 28:06 &#8212; 25.7MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/tayarijones.com\/\">Tayari Jones<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Caught in the act of untelling.<\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> Drawing from personal experience, Atlanta, accessible metaphors, writing and throwing away many pages, conversational vs. literary tone, &#8220;This is not what Dr. King died for,&#8221; the West End neighborhood and half-gentrified neighborhood, class segregation, Aria&#8217;s naivety, antediluvian word processing machines, the racial divide in bookstores and literary readings, labeling in the publishing industry, achieving literary respectability while being labeled, <i>The Bigamist&#8217;s Daughters<\/i>, and omniscient narration.<\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B> <\/p>\n<p><b>Jones:<\/b> No one ever believes my position on this. I think actually, as strange as it&#8217;s going to sound, the bookstores that tend to have the African-American section tend to carry more African-American titles than bookstores that don&#8217;t have these sections.  For example, there&#8217;s a bookstore in DC, Kramer Books.  You know, they pride themselves on shelving everything together.  And they have hardly any books by people of color there.  And with no section.  There&#8217;s no way of keeping them honest.  They don&#8217;t know what they have.  And though they can feel very progressive about their shelving, my book isn&#8217;t in there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2070\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-122-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo99.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo99.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo99.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo99.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=122-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo99.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo99.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 28:06 &#8212; 25.7MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tayari Jones is most recently the author of Leaving Atlanta. Author: Tayari Jones Condition of Mr. Segundo: Caught in the act of untelling. Subjects Discussed: Drawing from personal experience, Atlanta, accessible metaphors, writing and throwing away many pages, conversational vs. literary tone, &#8220;This is not what Dr. King died for,&#8221; the West End neighborhood and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2071\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-122-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo99.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo99.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo99.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo99.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=122-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo99.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo99.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 28:06 &#8212; 25.7MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1084],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2567,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/2567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}