{"id":210,"date":"2015-09-04T10:58:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T14:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2015-09-04T10:58:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T14:58:44","slug":"citi-by-ra-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Citi by RA Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDuring the 30 years <a href=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/CITI-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-199\" alt=\"CITI (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/CITI-2-187x300.jpg\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/CITI-2-187x300.jpg 187w, http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/CITI-2-640x1024.jpg 640w, http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/CITI-2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a>I was active in politics I would read novels to relax, to reflect, or to just imagine myself anywhere other than in City Hall.\u00a0 I ain\u2019t never read anything as honest, imaginative and utterly scary as CITI.\u00a0 At first I thought it was about me; shit, where has this guy been?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>-Mike White. Former Mayor of Cleveland<\/p>\n<p>RA Washington\u2019s new novel, CITI, simultaneously explodes and expands our notions of gender, race, identity, and storytelling itself.\u00a0 Structured in vignettes that are by turns metafictional, narrative, and philosophical, the novel achieves a unified and electrifying effect.\u00a0 Washington is equally fluent in the argot of the street and the lingo of postmodernism.\u00a0 He can write a sentence that lures you in its effortless grace, and he can jar you to wakefulness with abrupt dissonance.\u00a0 This is a beautifully brazen and important novel.\u00a0 I cannot recommend it highly enough.<\/p>\n<p>-Okla Elliott, author of <em>The Cartographer\u2019s Ink<\/em> and <em>From a Crooked Timber<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CITI is Washington at the peak of his powers, its poetics achieve a frenzy that left me holding my delusions at bay.\u00a0 I thought I changed, only to realize at its beautiful end that I never was in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>-Mark Cronin, author of <em>Gigantic Failures<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDuring the 30 years I was active in politics I would read novels to relax, to reflect, or to just imagine myself anywhere other than in City Hall.\u00a0 I ain\u2019t never read anything as honest, imaginative and utterly scary as CITI.\u00a0 At first I thought it was about me; shit, where has this guy been?\u201d -Mike White. Former Mayor of Cleveland RA Washington\u2019s new novel, CITI, simultaneously explodes and expands our notions of gender, race, identity, and storytelling itself.\u00a0 Structured in vignettes that are by turns metafictional, narrative, and philosophical, the novel achieves a unified and electrifying effect.\u00a0 Washington is equally fluent in the argot of the street and the lingo of postmodernism.\u00a0 He can write a sentence that lures you in its effortless grace, and he can jar you to wakefulness with abrupt dissonance.\u00a0 This is a beautifully brazen and important novel.\u00a0 I cannot recommend it highly enough. -Okla Elliott, author of The Cartographer\u2019s Ink and From a Crooked Timber CITI is Washington at the peak of his powers, its poetics achieve a frenzy that left me holding my delusions at bay.\u00a0 I thought I changed, only to realize at its beautiful end that I never was in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/CITI-2.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}