{"id":262716,"date":"2008-06-17T13:19:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T13:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/06\/17\/neas-big-read\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:32:07","slug":"neas-big-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/06\/17\/neas-big-read\/","title":{"rendered":"NEA&#39;s Big Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6570464.html?nid=2286&#38;source=link&#38;rid=1447936737\">PW<\/a> yesterday, the <span class=\"caps\">NEA<\/span> just announced the next round of Big Read grants and will be giving $2.8 million to 208 libraries and other organizations across the country to put together Big Read events in their community. (Including Writers &#038; Books here in Rochester.)<\/p>\n<p>There are now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neabigread.org\/books.php\">23 titles<\/a> eligible for selection, but what&#8217;s really interesting to me is the launch of &#8220;Big Read Mexico,&#8221; which will focus on <i>Sun, Stone, and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories.<\/i> This anthology (which I mentioned in one of the <span class=\"caps\">BEA<\/span> posts) is quite impressive, and will be available in the near future from Fondo de Cultura Economica. It will be sold throughout the U.S. for a very reasonable $10. <\/p>\n<p>After <i>2666<\/i> and after Horacio Moya&#8217;s <i>Senselessness,<\/i> I plan on reading and reviewing this myself . . . But with all that&#8217;s going on, it just might be August by that time . . .  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in PW yesterday, the NEA just announced the next round of Big Read grants and will be giving $2.8 million to 208 libraries and other organizations across the country to put together Big Read events in their community. (Including Writers &#038; Books here in Rochester.) There are now 23 titles eligible for selection, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,2756,12766,1646,12776],"class_list":["post-262716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-mexican-literature","tag-nea-big-read","tag-review","tag-sun-stone-and-shadows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326296,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262716\/revisions\/326296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}