{"id":3462,"date":"2016-04-05T16:05:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T16:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2016-04-05T17:06:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T17:06:19","slug":"unwind-the-mind-featured-author-for-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2016\/04\/05\/unwind-the-mind-featured-author-for-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwind the Mind: Featured Author for April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/little-dribbling-bryson-cover-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3474\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3474 size-medium\" title=\"The Road to Little Dribbling\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/little-dribbling-bryson-cover-1-195x300.jpg?resize=195%2C300\" alt=\"The Road to Little Dribbling\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/little-dribbling-bryson-cover-1.jpg?resize=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1 195w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/little-dribbling-bryson-cover-1.jpg?resize=768%2C1182&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/little-dribbling-bryson-cover-1.jpg?resize=665%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 665w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/little-dribbling-bryson-cover-1.jpg?w=1368&amp;ssl=1 1368w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/little-dribbling-bryson-cover-1.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>This month\u2019s featured author from our Unwind the Mind: Popular Reading Collection is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billbrysonbooks.com\/\">Bill Bryson<\/a>, author most recently of\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/depaul.worldcat.org\/oclc\/908517220\">The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain<\/a>. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bryson is known for humorous travel accounts\u00a0like\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/depaul.worldcat.org\/oclc\/19323113\">The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/depaul.worldcat.org\/oclc\/45004693\">A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail<\/a><\/em>. \u00a0He&#8217;s also written some very funny history and language books including\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/depaul.worldcat.org\/oclc\/20934335\">The Mother Tongue: English &amp; How It Got that Way<\/a><\/em>. \u00a0His\u00a0acclaimed book on the history of science, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/depaul.worldcat.org\/oclc\/51900381\">A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/a><\/em>, won the Royal Society\u2019s Aventis Prize as well as the Descartes Prize, the European Union\u2019s highest literary award.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Road to Little Dribbling<\/em> revisits a trip he took in England 20 years earlier, where\u00a0he comments on what&#8217;s changed and what hasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Find interviews with Bill Bryson:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Greenstreet, R. (2016, Feb. 20).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2016\/feb\/20\/bill-bryson-interview\">Q&amp;A: Bill Bryson<\/a>. <em>The Guardian<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Grossman, L. (2010, Oct. 18).\u00a0Q&amp;A: Bill Bryson. \u00a0Time, 176, pp.79.<\/li>\n<li>Highfield, R. (2009, Dec. 19). <a href=\"http:\/\/ezproxy.depaul.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=a9h&amp;AN=47581903&amp;site=ehost-live&amp;scope=site\">Everything that happens everywhere is amazing<\/a>. <em>New Scientist<\/em>, 204, 32-33.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find reviews of <em>The Road to Little Dribbling<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Becker, A. (2016, Jan. 27). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/31\/books\/review\/bill-bryson-the-road-to-little-dribbling-review.html?_r=0\">A Walk in the Wolds<\/a>. <em>New York Times Book Review<\/em>, p.9.<\/li>\n<li>Meinhardt, M. (2016, Feb. 17). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/tls\/public\/article1668950.ece\">Look at it now<\/a>. <em>TLS<\/em>, (5890), 29.<\/li>\n<li>Wagner, E. (2015, Oct. 23). <a href=\"http:\/\/ezproxy.depaul.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=a9h&amp;AN=110504301&amp;site=ehost-live&amp;scope=site\">Little Britain<\/a>. <em>New Statesman<\/em>, 144, 53.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Come in and Check Us Out!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month\u2019s featured author from our Unwind the Mind: Popular Reading Collection is Bill Bryson, author most recently of\u00a0The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain. \u00a0 Bryson is known for humorous travel accounts\u00a0like\u00a0The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America\u00a0and\u00a0A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. \u00a0He&#8217;s also <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2016\/04\/05\/unwind-the-mind-featured-author-for-april\/\" class=\"read-more\">continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unwind-the-mind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8GMS7-TQ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3485,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions\/3485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}