{"id":6968,"date":"2015-09-14T10:17:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T14:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/marine-corps-veteran-author-of-national-book-award-winner-redeployment-to-visit-campus-sept-24\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T10:17:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T14:17:32","slug":"marine-corps-veteran-author-of-national-book-award-winner-redeployment-to-visit-campus-sept-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/marine-corps-veteran-author-of-national-book-award-winner-redeployment-to-visit-campus-sept-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Corps veteran\/author of National Book Award winner &#8220;Redeployment&#8221; to visit campus Sept. 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reading from his short story collection,\u00a0\u201cRedeployment,\u201d author and U.S. Marine\u00a0Corps veteran Phil Klay takes readers to the\u00a0front lines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan\u00a0to understand what happened there and what\u00a0happened to the soldiers who returned.<\/p>\n<p>Klay, who served in Iraq\u2019s Anbar Province from\u00a0January 2007 to February 2008 as a public affairs officer, creates characters who struggle\u00a0to make meaning out of chaos in stories interwoven with themes of brutality and faith,\u00a0guilt and fear, helplessness and survival.<\/p>\n<p>Redeployment won the National Book Award\u00a0for Fiction. The author was shortlisted for the Frank O\u2019Connor Prize and named a National\u00a0Book Foundation \u201c5 Under 35\u201d honoree. He received the Marine Corps Heritage\u00a0Foundation James Webb Award.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hvcc.edu\/culture\/index.html\">Cultural Affairs Program<\/a> hosts Klay on Thursday, Sept. 24 at 3 p.m. in the Bulmer Telecommunications Center Auditorium. \u00a0The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>An NPR interview with Mr. Klay can be heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/03\/06\/286378088\/reminder-from-a-marine-civilians-and-veterans-share-ownership-of-war\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Mon, 14 Sep 2015 10:17:32 +0000 by\u00a0m.zemantauski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Reading from his short story collection,\u00a0\u201cRedeployment,\u201d author and U.S. Marine\u00a0Corps veteran Phil Klay takes readers to the\u00a0front lines of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}