{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 7 - Loving Day, Interview with Mat Johnson","description":"On the occasion of his visit to Minneapolis as featured author for&amp;nbsp;Givens Foundation Black Books Talk, Mat Johnson author of Loving Day, took time out to chat with Erin and Junauda.&amp;nbsp; Mat Johnson is the author of the novels&amp;nbsp;Loving Day,&amp;nbsp;Pym,&amp;nbsp;Drop, and&amp;nbsp;Hunting in Harlem, the nonfiction novella&amp;nbsp;The Great Negro Plot, and the comic books&amp;nbsp;Incognegro&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Dark Rain. He is a recipient of the&amp;nbsp;United States Artist James Baldwin Fellowship,&amp;nbsp;The Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award, a&amp;nbsp;Barnes &amp;amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers&amp;nbsp;selection, and the&amp;nbsp;John Dos Passos Prize for Literature.&amp;nbsp; Mat Johnson is a Professor at the&amp;nbsp;University of Houston Creative Writing Program. &amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"Givens Foundation | Black Market Reads","author_url":"http:\/\/givensbmr.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4001079\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/4001079"}