{"id":59902,"date":"2012-04-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/author-academy-award-nominee-tom-perrotta-to-speak-at-uri-april-24\/"},"modified":"2012-04-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T00:00:00","slug":"author-academy-award-nominee-tom-perrotta-to-speak-at-uri-april-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2012\/04\/author-academy-award-nominee-tom-perrotta-to-speak-at-uri-april-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Author & Academy Award Nominee Tom Perrotta to speak at 溏心vlog免费B站, April 24"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 5, 2012 \u2013 Tom Perrotta, acclaimed novelist and screenwriter, will speak at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Tuesday, April 24 at 7 p.m. His talk and reading, free and open to the public, will be held in Doody Auditorium, Swan Hall, 60 Upper College Road, Kingston.<\/p>\n


\nPerrotta is the author of six works of fiction, including The Leftovers, The Wishbones, and Joe College. He is best known for his novels Election and Little Children. Both books were made into Golden Globe-nominated films. Perrotta co-wrote the screenplay for Little Children, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.<\/p>\n


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\n\u201cTom Perrotta is highly respected among his fellow writers and his readership\u2014his work is at once poignant and extremely funny too. His visit has been made possible because of our new affiliation with PEN New England, a vital and respected literary organization that will help writers and the 溏心vlog免费B站 community become even more linked to literary professionals, and cutting-edge literary events.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nPerrotta\u2019s visit is part of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Read\/Write Guest Writers and Scholars Series. 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s English Department, Film Studies Program, and PEN New England sponsor the evening.

\nNOTE: A pre-event reception with the author, sponsored by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Alumni Writers\u2019 Affinity Group, will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Alumni Center, 73 Upper College Road, Kingston. To attend the reception you must register at https:\/\/secure.www.alumniconnections.com\/olc\/pub\/RIU\/event\/showEventForm.jsp?form_id=123731<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 5, 2012 \u2013 Tom Perrotta, acclaimed novelist and screenwriter, will speak at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Tuesday, April 24 at 7 p.m. His talk and reading, free and open to the public, will be held in Doody Auditorium, Swan Hall, 60 Upper College Road, Kingston. Perrotta is the author […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}