{"id":16667,"date":"2024-04-30T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=16667"},"modified":"2024-04-30T09:14:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T13:14:25","slug":"from-tiny-t-shirts-to-bookstore-shelves-kate-flannery-to-read-from-strip-tees-at-wilkes-university-on-april-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2024\/04\/30\/from-tiny-t-shirts-to-bookstore-shelves-kate-flannery-to-read-from-strip-tees-at-wilkes-university-on-april-30\/","title":{"rendered":"TONIGHT: Kate Flannery to Read from Strip Tees at Wilkes University on April 30"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Join Wilkes University for an appearance by NEPA native Kate Flannery, the author of the memoir Strip Tees, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30,<\/strong> in the Sordoni Art Gallery.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Kate Flannery\u2019s first word as a baby was \u201cbook.\u201d She spent her teen years creating a \u2019zine and earned a paycheck from her part-time job at Hoyt Library in Kingston, Pennsylvania. \u201cI\u2019ve been a book lover since day one thanks to my wonderful parents who always read to me,\u201d says Flannery. \u201cI was built by books.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Now Flannery has turned a new page in her book life with the publication of her memoir, Strip Tees<\/em>. Though seeing her work covered in The New York Times<\/em> and placed on the shelf of her hometown Barnes & Noble serves as powerful dream fulfillment, she had to battle through the nightmare corporate culture of American Apparel to bring the story to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To sign up for a free copy of Strip Tees<\/em>, visit wilkes.edu\/flannery<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more on Flannery’s story or event registration, visit News@Wilkes<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join Wilkes University for an appearance by NEPA native Kate Flannery, the author of the memoir Strip Tees, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30, in the Sordoni Art Gallery. Kate Flannery\u2019s first word as a baby was \u201cbook.\u201d She spent her teen years creating a \u2019zine and earned a paycheck from her part-time job… Read More »TONIGHT: Kate Flannery to Read from Strip Tees at Wilkes University on April 30<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16667"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16819,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16667\/revisions\/16819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}