{"id":21758,"date":"2012-10-07T10:52:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T14:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/?p=21758"},"modified":"2017-08-14T12:10:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:10:43","slug":"robert-wexelblatt-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/2012\/10\/07\/robert-wexelblatt-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Wexelblatt Publishes Novella, <em>Losses<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cgs\/files\/2012\/08\/losses.jpg\" alt=\"losses\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20421\" \/>Robert Wexelblatt, Boston University College of General Studies professor of humanities, has published a new novella, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vagabondagepress.com\/bookpreviews\/losses.html#.WZHJdFV96po\"><em>Losses<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(Vagabondage Press, August 2012). The publisher describes the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How valid are the claims of a father against those of a mother? \u00a0When they clash, what becomes of their child? A single father who is a new IRS agent, his cherished and imaginative little girl, a divorced woman having second thoughts about motherhood, a couple who think two ways about becoming parents,\u2039 these are the people from whose relationships, enterprises, gains, and losses this story is woven.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An accomplished fiction writer, Wexelblatt&#8217;s essays, stories, and poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals. He has also published two story collections, <strong>Life in the Temperate Zone<\/strong> and <strong>The Decline of Our Neighborhood<\/strong>, and a book of essays, <strong>Professors at Play<\/strong>. His most recent book, the novel <strong>Zublinka Among Women,<\/strong> was awarded First Grand Prize for Fiction and First Prize for General Fiction\/Novel by the Indie New Generation Book Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>New York Times Book Review<\/em> describes Wexelblatt&#8217;s stories as loaded with wit, bristling irony, draped in erudition and studded with metaphysics.<\/p>\n<p>Read<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themontrealreview.com\/2009\/Losses-by-Robert-Wexelblatt.php\"> an excerpt of\u00a0<\/a><em>Losses\u00a0<\/em>from\u00a0<em>The Montreal Review.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A novella from Robert Wexelblatt newly released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1512,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[340],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21758"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32623,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21758\/revisions\/32623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}