{"id":4372,"date":"2014-08-19T21:16:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T21:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=4372"},"modified":"2014-08-19T21:35:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T21:35:27","slug":"nprs-fresh-air-interviews-stephan-eirik-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2014\/08\/19\/nprs-fresh-air-interviews-stephan-eirik-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR&#8217;s Fresh Air interviews Stephan Eirik Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/08\/ows_1408055796179-e1408376960517.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/08\/ows_1408055796179-e1408376960517.jpg\" alt=\"ows_1408055796179\" width=\"100\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a>Stephan Eirik Clark spoke with Terry Gross of NPR&#8217;s Fresh Air. In the extended interview, Clark, who is an assistant professor of English and advisor in the Master of Fine Arts program, talked about the inspiration for his debut novel, Sweetness #9. Clark spoke about his main character, David Leveraux; his goal of writing a family drama; the challenge of writing conversation for a character who refused to use verbs when speaking; and more. Listen to &#8221; <a title=\"NPR interview with Stephan Eirik Clark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/08\/18\/341351857\/sweetness-9-satirizes-food-wars-and-artificial-america\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Sweetness #9&#8217; satirizes food wars and artificial America<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephan Eirik Clark spoke with Terry Gross of NPR&#8217;s Fresh Air. In the extended interview, Clark, who is an assistant professor of English and advisor in the Master of Fine Arts program, talked about the inspiration for his debut novel, Sweetness #9. Clark spoke about his main character, David Leveraux; his goal of writing a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,3233],"tags":[3325,2158,3280,3292,3326],"class_list":["post-4372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","category-relationship-2","tag-fresh-air","tag-npr","tag-stephan-eirik-clark","tag-sweetness-9","tag-terry-gross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4377,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4372\/revisions\/4377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}