{"id":1300,"date":"2025-08-08T05:19:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T05:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2025-08-08T05:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T05:19:36","slug":"crossing-boundaries-interview-with-beth-spencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"Crossing Boundaries &#8211; interview with Beth Spencer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?attachment_id=1301\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1301\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1301 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-08-at-3.11.34-pm-290x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-08-at-3.11.34-pm-290x300.png 290w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-08-at-3.11.34-pm.png 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a>I did an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/bethspencer.com\">Beth Spencer<\/a> about her book <em>The Age of Fibs<\/em> some time ago for my <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/compulsive-reader-talks\/id295193209\">Compulsive Reader Talks podcast<\/a>. \u00a0Beth enjoyed the session so much that she turned it into a transcript which she then submitted, by invitation, to Coastlines Journal, an online literary magazine run by Southern Cross University. The discussion was far ranging and included things like public and private histories, how\u00a0<em>The Age of Fibs<\/em> came together, identities and popular culture, memory, climate, hope, and despair &#8211; all the good stuff! \u00a0You can check it out here: <a href=\"https:\/\/coastlinesjournal.com\/issue-10-crossing-boundaries-finding-hope-beth-spencer\"> https:\/\/coastlinesjournal.com\/issue-10-crossing-boundaries-finding-hope-beth-spencer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did an interview with Beth Spencer about her book The Age of Fibs some time ago for my Compulsive Reader Talks podcast. \u00a0Beth enjoyed the session so much that she turned it into a transcript which she then submitted, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1300\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-interviews","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}