{"id":50623,"date":"2020-10-31T00:18:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T08:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/?p=50623"},"modified":"2021-01-08T18:51:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:51:49","slug":"dennis-bock-live-with-michael-merschel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/dennis-bock-live-with-michael-merschel\/","title":{"rendered":"JAM SESSION with Dennis Bock"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\tDENNIS BOCK<\/strong> is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, whose books include Olympia<\/em>, The Ash Garden<\/em>, and Going Home Again,<\/em> shortlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize and winner of China’s 21st Century Best Foreign Novel Award. His latest novel is The Good German<\/em>.\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n

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MICHAEL MERSCHEL <\/strong>hosts this Jam Session with DENNIS BOCK<\/strong> about his latest novel, The Good German.\u00a0<\/em>Set in an alternative reality, anti-fascist Georg Elser succeeds<\/em> in his assassination attempt against Hitler, leading to devastating outcomes. G\u00f6ring, Hitler’s master strategist, accedes to the German Chancellery and maneuvers the U.S. out of the war. Getting to the atomic bomb first, the landscape of the future is altered forever.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em> calls Bock a “novelist of considerable gifts and ambitious imagination.”\u00a0 Margaret Atwood calls The Good German “A cunning, twisted, compelling tale\u00a0of deeply unexpected consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

This thoughtful and playful interview examines the origins and success of this “page-turning” novel, the craft of writing, sociological and political parallels, and our ongoing fascination with alternative realities. Streamed live on Halloween, because seriously, what’s scarier than Nazis having won WWII?<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tDENNIS BOCK is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, whose books include Olympia, The Ash Garden, and Going Home Again, shortlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize and winner of China’s 21st Century Best Foreign Novel Award. His latest novel is The Good German.\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>MICHAEL MERSCHEL hosts this Jam Session […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":52305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"[author] [author_image timthumb='on']https:\/\/canadianauthors.org\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Dennis-Bock-300x300.jpg[\/author_image] [author_info] DENNIS BOCK<\/strong> is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, whose books include Olympia<\/em>, The Ash Garden<\/em>, and Going Home Again,<\/em> shortlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize and winner of China's 21st Century Best Foreign Novel Award. His latest novel is The Good German<\/em>.[\/author_info] [\/author]\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/strong>\r\n\r\nMICHAEL MERSCHEL <\/strong>hosts this Jam Session with DENNIS BOCK<\/strong> about his latest novel, The Good German.\u00a0<\/em>Set in an alternative reality, anti-fascist Georg Elser succeeds<\/em> in his assassination attempt against Hitler, leading to devastating outcomes. G\u00f6ring, Hitler's master strategist, accedes to the German Chancellery and maneuvers the U.S. out of the war. Getting to the atomic bomb first, the landscape of the future is altered forever.\r\n\r\nThe New York Times<\/em> calls Bock a \"novelist of considerable gifts and ambitious imagination.\"\u00a0 Margaret Atwood calls The Good German \"A cunning, twisted, compelling tale\u00a0of deeply unexpected consequences.\u201d\r\n\r\nThis thoughtful and playful interview examines the origins and success of this \"page-turning\" novel, the craft of writing, sociological and political parallels, and our ongoing fascination with alternative realities. Streamed live on Halloween, because seriously, what's scarier than Nazis having won WWII?<\/em>\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n[embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cuShpQ2lG1s&t=1s[\/embed]","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[97,91,93,92,94,96,90,95],"class_list":["post-50623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jam-session","tag-alternative-reality","tag-author-interview","tag-best-seller","tag-canadian","tag-dennis-bock","tag-nazis","tag-speculative-fiction","tag-the-good-german"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}