{"id":1300,"date":"2007-01-28T03:55:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T07:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/pr\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:42:29","slug":"the-untelling-focus-of-african-american-read-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/the-untelling-focus-of-african-american-read-in\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Untelling,\u201d Focus of African American Read-In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday, January 28, 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"93\" height=\"142\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/219\/2021\/09\/image0043.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1301\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PRINCESS ANNE, MD &#8211; Read &#8220;The&nbsp;Untelling,&#8221; by&nbsp;Tayari&nbsp;Jones and join a lively discussion during the fifth annual African American Read-In at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore on Tuesday, February 6, at 11 a.m. in the Student Services Center multipurpose room.&nbsp; President Thelma B. Thompson has chosen this year&#8217;s book and invites the community, along with UMES faculty, staff, and students, to be a part of an evolving, literary tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A native of Atlanta, GA, Jones centers her writing on the urban south.&nbsp; She has been named, by the &#8220;Atlanta Journal Constitution,&#8221; as &#8220;one of the best writers of her generation.&#8221;&nbsp; &#8220;The&nbsp;Untelling,&#8221; her second novel, was published in 2005 and is the story of a family struggling to overcome the aftermath of a fatal car accident.&nbsp; The book has earned Jones the Lillian C. Smith Award for New Voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This event is free and open to the public.&nbsp; For more information, contact the Office of Public Relations at 410-651-6669.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">####<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Suzanne Waters Street, director, UMES Office of Public Relations, 410-621-2355,<\/em><a href=\"mailto:sstreet@umes.edu\"><em>sstreet@umes.edu<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, January 28, 2007 PRINCESS ANNE, MD &#8211; Read &#8220;The&nbsp;Untelling,&#8221; by&nbsp;Tayari&nbsp;Jones and join a lively discussion during the fifth annual African American Read-In at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore on Tuesday, February 6, at 11 a.m. in the Student Services Center multipurpose room.&nbsp; President Thelma B. Thompson has chosen this year&#8217;s book and invites&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/the-untelling-focus-of-african-american-read-in\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">\u201cThe Untelling,\u201d Focus of African American Read-In<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/scm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}