{"id":4056,"date":"2015-11-05T11:39:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T16:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=4056"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:21:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:21:51","slug":"best-selling-author-to-speak-in-st-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2015\/11\/05\/best-selling-author-to-speak-in-st-joseph\/","title":{"rendered":"Best-selling Author to Speak in St. Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/11\/Hodgman.jpg\"><\/a>George Hodgman, author of the New York Times best-seller \u201cBettyville,\u201d will speak twice in St. Joseph. Hodgman will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11 at First Christian Church, 927 Faraon Street in St. Joseph, and at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12 in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt Hall room 101, on the campus of Missouri Western State University. Both presentations are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Hodgman will discuss growing up gay in rural Missouri, living through the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, and caring for an elderly parent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBettyville\u201d is a witty, tender memoir of a son\u2019s journey home to care for his irascible mother \u2013 a tale of secrets, silences and enduring love. Hodgman is a veteran magazine and book editor who has worked at Simon &amp; Schuster, Vanity Fair, and Talk magazine. His writing has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Interview, W, and Harper\u2019s Bazaar, among other publications.<\/p>\n<p>The Barnes and Noble Bookstore on campus will have books available before and after each event for a book signing to occur after each event.<\/p>\n<p>Hodgman\u2019s visit to St. Joseph is sponsored by the Missouri Western Department of English and Modern Languages; the Department of Criminal Justice, Legal Studies and Social Work; the Missouri Western Pride Alliance; and First Christian Church. Refreshments will be provided by PFLAG.<\/p>\n<p><em>Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\">www.missouriwestern.edu<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Hodgman, author of the New York Times best-seller \u201cBettyville,\u201d will speak twice in St. Joseph. Hodgman will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11 at First Christian Church, 927 Faraon Street in St. Joseph, and at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12 in the Kemper Recital Hall, Spratt Hall room 101, on the campus of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[155,287,292,371,640],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8109,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions\/8109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}