{"id":1849,"date":"2023-12-03T13:24:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T18:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2024-02-19T09:47:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T14:47:27","slug":"dan-remoto-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/2023\/12\/dan-remoto-book-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Remoto Book Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We heard a short preview of Dan Remoto&#8217;s powerful writing during our successful annual charity event, Writers Harvest. Too short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So please join the Creative Writing Program for a fiction reading with Dan Remoto, who will read from his new book,&nbsp;<em>The Heart of Summer<\/em> (&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.sg\/book\/the-heart-of-summer-stories-and-tales\/\" target=\"_blank\">Penguin Random House Southeast Asia<\/a>) at Miami on&nbsp;<strong>Thursday,&nbsp;February 22nd, 7:30pm in BAC 337<\/strong>. (Zoom attendees, please register&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/miamioh.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZMrdOiorDgrG9Mbvq6vd_kefaO3gnDBFQCk\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<br><br>Dan Remoto is a current MFA student at Miami.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2023\/11\/Dan-Remoto-Poet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2023\/11\/Dan-Remoto-Poet-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1850\" width=\"373\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2023\/11\/Dan-Remoto-Poet-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2023\/11\/Dan-Remoto-Poet-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2023\/11\/Dan-Remoto-Poet-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2023\/11\/Dan-Remoto-Poet-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2023\/11\/Dan-Remoto-Poet.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dan Remoto&#8217;s new book, <em>The Heart of Summer: Stories and Tales,<\/em> is&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Heart-Summer-Stories-Tales\/dp\/9815058177\" target=\"_blank\">available for order here<\/a>&nbsp;and published by&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.sg\/book\/the-heart-of-summer-stories-and-tales\/\" target=\"_blank\">Penguin Random House Southeast Asia<\/a>.&nbsp;<br>The book has been described as<strong>,&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;A collection of short fiction on love, longing and loss written in the realist and fantastic modes. A young boy and his sisters gather beautiful shells on the beach as mementos of a country they will leave behind.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Danton Remoto has published a novel called&nbsp;<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.sg\/book\/riverrun-a-novel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Riverrun<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;and a book of stories called<em>&nbsp;The Heart of Summer&nbsp;<\/em>with Penguin Random House Southeast Asia. He studied at Rutgers University and the University of Stirling in the UK. He is an MFA Poetry student at Miami University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2023\/11\/DanRemotoBook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"406\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2023\/11\/DanRemotoBook.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2023\/11\/DanRemotoBook.jpg 406w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/files\/2023\/11\/DanRemotoBook-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We heard a short preview of Dan Remoto&#8217;s powerful writing during our successful annual charity event, Writers Harvest. Too short. So please join the Creative Writing Program for a fiction reading with Dan Remoto, who will read from his new book,&nbsp;The Heart of Summer (&nbsp;Penguin Random House Southeast Asia) at Miami on&nbsp;Thursday,&nbsp;February 22nd, 7:30pm in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7434,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,209,201,208,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-alumni-2","category-events-readings","category-students","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7434"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}