{"id":789,"date":"2015-01-10T10:07:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T15:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/?p=789"},"modified":"2015-01-10T10:07:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T15:07:51","slug":"matt-burgess-writing-great-characters-and-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"Matt Burgess: Writing Great Characters and Ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_791\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Matt-Burgess-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-791\" class=\"size-full wp-image-791\" alt=\"Matt Burgess photo\" src=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Matt-Burgess-web.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Burgess<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Before graduating from Dartmouth College and the University of Minnesota&#8217;s MFA program, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Matt-Burgess\/134582396563663\">Matt Burgess<\/a> grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens. His hometown has served as the location for both his first novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Matt-Burgess\/e\/B003QLNG6K\/\">Dogfight, A Love Story<\/a>, which was a New York Times Editors&#8217; Choice and Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, and his latest novel, this January\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Matt-Burgess\/e\/B003QLNG6K\/\">Uncle Janice<\/a>. Matt Burgess will be <a href=\"http:\/\/thurberhouse.org\">a guest author with Thurber House<\/a> on Wednesday, January 21 and you can <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thurberhouse.org\/matt-burgess-evenings-with-authors.html\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">BUY TICKETS<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Craft-2014-1-10-MattBurgess.mp3\">Listen in to hear Matt describe his writing process<\/a>, how he researched Uncle Janice, and the line between ambition and becoming Lady Macbeth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3291\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-789-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Craft-2014-1-10-MattBurgess.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Craft-2014-1-10-MattBurgess.mp3\">http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Craft-2014-1-10-MattBurgess.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Craft-2014-1-10-MattBurgess.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=789-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Craft-2014-1-10-MattBurgess.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft-2014-1-10-MattBurgess.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before graduating from Dartmouth College and the University of Minnesota&#8217;s MFA program, Matt Burgess grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens. His hometown has served as the location for both his first novel, Dogfight, A Love Story, which was a New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=789\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,74],"tags":[164,161,163,162,20,165],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-to-attend","category-new-books","category-thurber-house-author","tag-dogfight-a-love-story","tag-matt-burgess","tag-novel","tag-queens","tag-thurber-house","tag-uncle-janice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}