{"id":6052,"date":"2017-03-06T17:02:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T23:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/?p=6052"},"modified":"2017-03-06T17:02:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T23:02:56","slug":"new-orleans-author-to-hold-reading-discussion-during-novel-night-at-nicholls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholls.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/06\/new-orleans-author-to-hold-reading-discussion-during-novel-night-at-nicholls\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans author to hold reading, discussion during Novel Night at Nicholls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THIBODAUX, La. &#8212; The Nicholls English Society will host Novel Night, a guest reading and discussion with New Orleans author Amanda Boyden at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 8.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Minnesota native, Boyden is the author of the international bestseller &#8220;Babylon Rolling,&#8221; which was named one of the Top 20 Books of 2010 by French weekly Le Point and named one of the best books of the year by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Her first book, &#8220;Pretty Little Dirty,&#8221; was published in 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A former trapeze artist, Boyden and her husband, Joseph, are Writers-in-Residence at the University of New Orleans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The event will be held in the Carnival Room in the Bollinger Memorial Student Union. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: <\/b>March 6, 2016<\/p>\n<p><b>CONTACT: <\/b>Jacob Batte, Media Relations and Publications Coordinator,<\/p>\n<p>985.448.4141 or jacob.batte@www.nicholls.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIBODAUX, La. &#8212; The Nicholls English Society will host Novel Night, a guest reading and discussion with New Orleans author Amanda Boyden at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 8. 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