{"id":1985,"date":"2019-10-02T16:26:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T16:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2019-10-11T18:24:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T18:24:35","slug":"event-october-13-reading-with-nishant-batsha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/event-october-13-reading-with-nishant-batsha\/","title":{"rendered":"EVENT: October 13 Reading with Nishant Batsha, new fiction and works in progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the<strong> Library&#8217;s fall series of Resident Artist works: <\/strong>Sunday the 13th, doors at 6 p.m., event at 7. The Library is delighted to host a reading by novelist and writer in residence <strong>Nishant Batsha.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nishant<\/strong> is working on a collection of novels that weave together the global movement, tragedy, and resilience of two migrants as they make their way to California in the mid-1980s. His reading on the 13th will be from work-in-progress. He will also be discussing his research, his writing practice, and his use of this Library. Nishant is a 2019-2020 Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts as well as a writer in residence here with us since February.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NBHeadshot-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1987\" src=\"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NBHeadshot-large-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the Library&#8217;s fall series of Resident Artist works: Sunday the 13th, doors at 6 p.m., event at 7. The Library is delighted to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/1990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prelingerlibrary.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}