{"id":1954,"date":"2021-06-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2021-12-01T13:25:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T13:25:28","slug":"novel-romantics-episode-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1954","title":{"rendered":"Novel RomAntics Episode #5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" class=\"wp-image-1935\" style=\"width: 150px; height: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TheTransAtlanticist_sm-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TheTransAtlanticist_sm-1.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TheTransAtlanticist_sm-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TheTransAtlanticist_sm-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TheTransAtlanticist_sm-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TheTransAtlanticist_sm-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TheTransAtlanticist_sm-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Episode #5 of Novel RomAntics, hosted by the Trans-Atlanticist Podcasts of the Amerikazentrum in Hamburg, Germany is now available. You can subscribe and listen via various platforms including Apple and Spotify, or click the link below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thetrans-atlanticist.podigee.io\/s2e9-madeline-miller-circe\">htt<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thetrans-atlanticist.podigee.io\/s2e11-lesley-nneka-arimah\">ps:\/\/thetrans-atlanticist.podigee.io\/s2e9s2e11-lesley-nneka-arimah<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode, novelist Nadifa Mohamed and I discuss <em>What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky<\/em>, a collection of short stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah. They discuss several of the stories, and the overlaps and differences in cultural expectations between the United States and Africa, the pressures of young womanhood, and more. Nadifa Mohamed&#8217;s latest novel, <em>The Fortune Men<\/em>, is published by Penguin, and will be available in German from September, under the titel <em>Der Geist von Tiger Bay<\/em>, published by C.H. Beck Verlag.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Novel%20RomAntics%20Episode%20%235\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode #5 of Novel RomAntics, hosted by the Trans-Atlanticist Podcasts of the Amerikazentrum in Hamburg, Germany is now available. You can subscribe and listen via various platforms including Apple and Spotify, or click the link below: https:\/\/thetrans-atlanticist.podigee.io\/s2e9s2e11-lesley-nneka-arimah In this episode, novelist Nadifa Mohamed and I discuss What It Means When a Man Falls from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Novel%20RomAntics%20Episode%20%235\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts-and-interviews","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1973,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}