{"id":2046,"date":"2010-11-12T13:53:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T18:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2020-05-07T13:33:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:33:41","slug":"national-book-award-finalist-jaimy-gordon-sunday-dec-5-at-redford-township-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2010\/11\/12\/national-book-award-finalist-jaimy-gordon-sunday-dec-5-at-redford-township-library\/","title":{"rendered":"National Book Award Winner Jaimy Gordon Sunday, Dec. 5 at Redford Township Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/f_lordofmisrule.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2047\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"f_lordofmisrule\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/f_lordofmisrule.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a>Michigan author <strong>Jaimy Gordon<\/strong> will be at the <strong>Redford Township District Library<\/strong> on <strong>Sunday, December 5th from 3-4:30pm<\/strong> to read from her new novel <em><strong>Lord of Misrule<\/strong><\/em>, which is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/index.html\"><strong>2010 National Book Award winner<\/strong><\/a> in fiction. There will be a short reading followed by a Q&amp;A and book signing. This event is co-sponsored by the <strong>Book Beat<\/strong> bookstore, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfordlibrary.org\/\">Redford Township District Library<\/a> (<\/strong><strong>25320 West 6 Mile Road<\/strong>, <strong>Redford, MI 48240.\u00a0 Between Telegraph and Beech Daly Rd.<\/strong>), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnba-books.org\/detroit\/\"><strong>Women&#8217;s National Book Association (Detroit Chapter)<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Books will be available for purchase at the event.\u00a0 Please contact <strong>Book Beat<\/strong> at <strong>248-968-1190<\/strong> for more information. This event is free and open to the public.\u00a0<em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 1px;\" src=\"http:\/\/si.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/WK-AV767_Awards_DV_20101021170843.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"236\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;With marvelous poetic authority, Jaimy Gordon takes us deep into the underbelly of the racetrack. There are no roses or mint juleps here. This is the down-and-dirty world of claiming races, and everything is hazed with the gritty patina of desperation. Through her considerable gifts, Gordon fully inhabits this seldom-seen world of trainers, dreamers, gamblers, and grifters. At turns comic, heartbreaking, and lyrical, <em>Lord of Misrule<\/em> is a brilliant achievement.&#8221;&#8211;<\/em>Don Lee, author of <em><em>Wrack and Ruin<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jaimy Gordon currently resides in Kalamazoo, MI where she teaches creative writing at Western Michigan University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan author Jaimy Gordon will be at the Redford Township District Library on Sunday, December 5th from 3-4:30pm to read from her new novel Lord of Misrule, which is the 2010 National Book Award winner in fiction. There will be a short reading followed by a Q&amp;A and book signing. This event is co-sponsored by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-detroit","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}