{"id":3549,"date":"2024-01-22T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=3549"},"modified":"2024-01-25T12:04:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T19:04:05","slug":"professor-publishes-collection-of-short-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2024\/01\/22\/professor-publishes-collection-of-short-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Publishes Collection of Short Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Daniel Mueller<\/strong>, Professor of Creative Writing recently published his third collection of short fiction, <em>Anything You Recognize<\/em> with Outpost 19 Books. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Outpost 19 Books: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new cycle of stories from the acclaimed author of&nbsp;<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/outpost19.square.site\/product\/nights-i-dreamed-of-hubert-humphrey-stories-by-daniel-mueller\/51\" target=\"_blank\">Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>How Animals Mate<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Anything You Recognize <\/em>is the exuberant new collection from the acclaimed author of&nbsp;<em>Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>How Animals Mate<\/em>. In Mueller\u2019s latest, the central cycle of stories follows an upwardly mobile family navigating the late \u201860s in west Texas, with an adventurous young boy coming face to face with the era\u2019s newly blurred lines around sex, race and family. From an inexhaustible storehouse of period details, Mueller sets the unbridled freedoms of bike-riding boyhood against the subtle and not-so-subtle pressures of newly liberated adults \u2014and then adds several stories set years later, including a dreamy backpacker\u2019s hilarious fantasies of his would-be girlfriend to scenes from a circle of aging gay&nbsp;artists, reminders of the ever-shifting boundaries we all still face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Mueller, Professor of Creative Writing recently published his third collection of short fiction, Anything You Recognize with Outpost 19 Books. From Outpost 19 Books: A new cycle of stories from the acclaimed author of&nbsp;Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey&nbsp;and&nbsp;How Animals Mate. Anything You Recognize is the exuberant new collection from the acclaimed author of&nbsp;Nights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3552,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3549\/revisions\/3552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}