{"id":2402,"date":"2016-01-19T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T18:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getlitfestival.org\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2016-01-19T10:45:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T18:45:34","slug":"manuel-gonzales-comes-to-spokane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/manuel-gonzales-comes-to-spokane\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuel Gonzales Comes to Spokane!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/getlitfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/miniature-wife.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2403\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2403 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/getlitfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/miniature-wife-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"miniature wife\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/getlitfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/picture-8820-1405775647.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2404\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2404 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/getlitfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/picture-8820-1405775647-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"picture-8820-1405775647\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Novelist and short-story writer Manuel Gonzales is coming to Gonzaga on Wednesday, January 27th. He\u2019ll be reading at the Cataldo Globe Room at 7:30 as part of the Gonzaga Visiting Writers Series. I&#8217;ve already marked my calendar, and you ought to mark yours too.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales used to co-own the Clarksville Pie Company in Austin, Texas, but now he writes books and teaches creative writing at the University of Kentucky. His first book, <em>The Miniature Wife and Other Stories<\/em>, was published last year by Riverhead Books to critical acclaim. Ben Marcus described his stories \u201cfunny and unforgettable\u201d and, in her <em>New York Times <\/em>review, Aimee Bender called them \u201clucid and confident.\u201d Wells Tower compared him to Borges and, in <em>Esquire<\/em>, Benjamin Percy compared him to none other than Aimee Bender. The book is full of the fantastical\u2500 zombies and unicorns and werewolves and whatnot. The title story is about a man who, accidentally but literally, miniaturizes his wife.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/getlitfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/regional-office.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2405\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2405 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/getlitfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/regional-office-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"regional office\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Gonzales\u2019 upcoming novel, <em>The Regional Office is Under Attack!<\/em>, finds the author exploring similarly magical territory. The book, due in April, takes place \u201cin a world beset by amassing forces of darkness.\u201d The regional office, which employs superpowered female assassins to protect the world from destruction, is under attack by one of its own. I\u2019m excited to see what Mr. Gonzales\u00a0\u00a0 can do with this ostensibly schlocky premise\u2014the book has already been praised by the wonderful Kelly Link and Karen Russell; Spokane\u2019s own Jess Walter called the book \u201ca wry and propulsive work of inventive fiction.\u201d It all makes me wish I still worked at a bookstore and could get my hands on an advance copy, but alas.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I\u2019m looking forward to the reading January 27th and hearing him read from it. Hope to see you there, whoever you are.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;by Andrew Moreno<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist and short-story writer Manuel Gonzales is coming to Gonzaga on Wednesday, January 27th. He\u2019ll be reading at the Cataldo Globe Room at 7:30 as part of the Gonzaga Visiting Writers Series. I&#8217;ve already marked my calendar, and you ought to mark yours too. 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