{"id":11706,"date":"2023-10-17T10:51:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T17:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=11706"},"modified":"2023-10-17T10:51:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T17:51:44","slug":"spinning-out-motherhood-myths-and-madness","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/event\/spinning-out-motherhood-myths-and-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinning Out: Motherhood, Myths, and Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span class=\"ContentPasted0\">Spark Central\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ContentPasted0\">will host a<b>\u00a0<\/b>book launch party for\u00a0<b class=\"ContentPasted0\">Alexandra\u00a0<i class=\"ContentPasted0\">Teague\u2019s Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American Memoir<\/i>, and Maya Jewell Zeller\u2019s\u00a0<i class=\"ContentPasted0\">out takes\/ glove box<\/i><\/b>, featuring special guests and co-emcees, authors Kate Lebo and Laura Read. Lebo and Read will share briefly from their own work before welcoming Teague and Jewell Zeller.<b class=\"ContentPasted0\"><\/b><\/span><span class=\"ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ContentPasted0\">Teague\u2019s memoir, according to Kathryn Nuernberger, \u201crecounts growing up in a family of \u2018feral Victorians\u2019 in the eccentric occult town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. With essayistic ruminations on matters of faith, kitsch, mental health, gun violence, and memory,<i class=\"ContentPasted0\">\u00a0Spinning Tea Cups<\/i>\u00a0has all the page-turning pleasures of an engaging story, along with insight, wisdom, and exquisite prose.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ContentPasted0\">Jewell Zeller\u2019s book of poems,\u00a0according to Diane Seuss, \u201ccould be said to be an \u2018oocyte opera\u2019 of ovarian orbits and eddies, each month offering up its \u2018vermilion funeral.\u2019 Zeller\u2019s surrealism is embodied and embedded in myth, fairy tale, the realm of the family, and the kingdom of the natural world.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ContentPasted0\">Seuss called the book \u201cthe kind of deft performance only a mermaid or a mother could pull off.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ContentPasted0\">Both authors\u00a0will read for 15 minutes and then be available to sign books, which will be available for purchase.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ContentPasted0\"><br class=\"ContentPasted0\" \/><br class=\"ContentPasted0\" \/>This event, complete with refreshments, is free and open to the public.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spark Central\u00a0will host a\u00a0book launch party for\u00a0Alexandra\u00a0Teague\u2019s Spinning Tea Cups: A Mythical American Memoir, and Maya Jewell Zeller\u2019s\u00a0out takes\/ glove box, featuring special guests and co-emcees, authors Kate Lebo and Laura Read. Lebo and Read will share briefly from their own work before welcoming Teague and Jewell Zeller.\u00a0 Teague\u2019s memoir, according to Kathryn Nuernberger, \u201crecounts &#8230; <a title=\"Spinning Out: Motherhood, Myths, and Madness\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/event\/spinning-out-motherhood-myths-and-madness\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Spinning Out: Motherhood, Myths, and Madness\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":[],"_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[77,72],"class_list":["post-11706","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-presentation","tribe_events_cat-reading","cat_presentation","cat_reading"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11707,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11706\/revisions\/11707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11706"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/getlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=11706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}