{"id":7062,"date":"2016-04-29T11:36:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T11:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2022-08-31T20:28:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T20:28:43","slug":"neal-karlen-prince-star-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/29\/neal-karlen-prince-star-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg creative writing mentor Neal Karlen describes connection to Prince in Star Tribune column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/StarTrib-e1400513865356.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/StarTrib-e1400513865356.jpeg\" alt=\"Minneapolis Star Tribune - logo\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Neal Karlen<\/strong>, a mentor in\u00a0Augsburg College&#8217;s Master of Arts in Creative Writing program, described the unlikely friendship he developed with music icon Prince in a recent Star Tribune column. Karlen is among an elite group of writers granted in-depth interviews with Prince in the mid-1980s. Over time, discussions between the print writer and the songwriter\u00a0developed into something akin to friendship, according Karlen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">&#8220;I always told Prince I knew he really didn\u2019t consider me a friend, but as one of the few people in Minneapolis who was probably awake, like he always was, in the middle of the night, and was &#8216;Willing and Able,&#8217; as my favorite song of his is titled, to talk about loneliness and death,&#8221; Karlen wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">&#8220;I even rubbed it in, in the opening of my second Rolling Stone cover story\u00a0on Prince, published in 1990.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">&#8216;The phone rings at 4:48 in the morning,'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neal Karlen, a mentor in\u00a0Augsburg College&#8217;s Master of Arts in Creative Writing program, described the unlikely friendship he developed with music icon Prince in a recent Star Tribune column. Karlen is among an elite group of writers granted in-depth interviews with Prince in the mid-1980s. Over time, discussions between the print writer and the songwriter\u00a0developed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[3933,940,3199,3856,2692,3163],"class_list":["post-7062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","tag-augsburg-university","tag-english","tag-mfa-in-creative-writing","tag-neal-karlen","tag-star-tribune","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7062"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10997,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions\/10997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}