{"id":736,"date":"2019-04-25T15:10:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T15:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/?p=736"},"modified":"2019-04-25T15:10:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T15:10:31","slug":"e127-with-alicia-elliott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/2019\/04\/25\/e127-with-alicia-elliott\/","title":{"rendered":"E127 with ALICIA ELLIOTT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks!<\/p>\n<p>I continue to forge forward on the new novel. I think I&#8217;m\u00a0<em>almost\u00a0<\/em>at a beta-reader-ready stage. It could be better &#8211; far better &#8211; but at the same time, how many hours do I want to spend polishing a draft that&#8217;s going to change anyway?<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s show features <a href=\"https:\/\/thefiddlehead.ca\/content\/alicia-elliott\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Alicia Elliott<\/span><\/a>, whose collection of essays, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.ca\/books\/588523\/a-mind-spread-out-on-the-ground-by-alicia-elliott\/9780385692380\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">A Mind Spread Out On The Ground<\/span><\/a>, has been on the Canadian non-fiction bestseller list for weeks. I&#8217;ve seen Alicia speak and follow her on Twitter, so I knew she was passionate about indigenous issues, feminist issues, and more; in this book she illustrates that passion but also her <em>com<\/em>passion (sorry, couldn&#8217;t resist the italics). It&#8217;s an eye-opening book, &#8220;urgent and visceral&#8221; as the CBC said (better words than I could find as I dash off this post).\u00a0 Learn more in our conversation, and hope you dig.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GET LIT E127 Elliott April 25 by James Tennant\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F611211291&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks! I continue to forge forward on the new novel. I think I&#8217;m\u00a0almost\u00a0at a beta-reader-ready stage. It could be better &#8211; far better &#8211; but at the same time, how many hours do I want to spend polishing a draft that&#8217;s going to change anyway? This week&#8217;s show features Alicia Elliott, whose collection of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[507,506,14,23,511,509,510,31,20,24,508,16,13,170],"class_list":{"0":"post-736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"tag-a-mind-spread-out-on-the-ground","8":"tag-alicia-elliott","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-cfmu","11":"tag-decolonization","12":"tag-essays","13":"tag-feminism","14":"tag-fiction","15":"tag-get-lit","16":"tag-hamilton","17":"tag-indigenous","18":"tag-jamie-tennant","19":"tag-literature","20":"tag-mcmaster-university","21":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}