{"id":3248,"date":"2015-10-06T08:17:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T15:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2015-10-06T08:17:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T15:17:54","slug":"the-los-angeles-review-of-books-podcast-amelia-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3248","title":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Review of Books Podcast: Amelia Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/larb-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/gray-amelia-243x366.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colin <span class=\"il\">Marshall<\/span> talks with Amelia Gray, author of <i>AM\/PM<\/i>, <i>Museum of the Weird<\/i>, <i>Threats<\/i>, and the new short story collection <i>Gutshot<\/i>, which showcases her writing at its most grotesque, its most hypernormal, its most speculative, and its most darkly funny. The book offers a portrait of her very own America, a country populated by Greyhound bus riders, compulsive vomiters, Camaro IROC-Z drivers, cruelly fetishistic conscious-consuming vegans, and victims of every sort of personality disorder.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/227047469&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You\u00a0can stream the conversation just above, listen to it\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/interview\/podcast-86-amelia-gray\">the\u00a0<em>LARB\u2019<\/em>s site<\/a>, download it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/la-review-of-books\/id493864450\">on iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall talks with Amelia Gray, author of AM\/PM, Museum of the Weird, Threats, and the new short story collection Gutshot, which showcases her writing at its most grotesque, its most hypernormal, its most speculative, and its most darkly funny. The book offers a portrait of her very own America, a country populated by Greyhound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles-review-of-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}