{"id":160,"date":"2018-06-04T10:49:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T14:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tim-youd\/?p=160"},"modified":"2018-07-16T11:33:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T15:33:01","slug":"typing-begins-at-sing-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tim-youd\/2018\/06\/04\/typing-begins-at-sing-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"Typing begins at Sing Sing Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Youd&#8217;s performance continues from June 3-June 11 at the\u00a0Sing Sing Correctional Facility decommissioned guard tower near prison gate in Ossining, New York. The performance contributes to the artist\u2019s ongoing project\u00a0<strong>100 Novels<\/strong>\u00a0in which he retypes the entire novels from beginning to end in locations that are charged with literary significance in the author\u2019s biography.<\/p>\n<p>In the guard tower of Sing Sing, he is now retyping\u00a0<em>Falconer<\/em>\u00a0by John Cheever. The prison was the model used by Cheever to write the novel.\u00a0 This masterpiece is set in a state prison during the early 1970s.\u00a0As Cheever biographer Blake Bailey notes: \u201cAlmost every set piece in\u00a0<em>Falconer<\/em>\u2014almost every detail\u2014appears somewhere in Cheever\u2019s journal entries about Sing Sing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-161\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tim-youd\/files\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-04-at-10.47.55-AM-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tim-youd\/files\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-04-at-10.47.55-AM-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tim-youd\/files\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-04-at-10.47.55-AM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tim-youd\/files\/2018\/06\/Screen-Shot-2018-06-04-at-10.47.55-AM.png 595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Youd&#8217;s performance continues from June 3-June 11 at the\u00a0Sing Sing Correctional Facility decommissioned guard tower near prison gate in Ossining, New York. The performance contributes to the artist\u2019s ongoing project\u00a0100 Novels\u00a0in which he retypes the entire novels from beginning to end in locations that are charged with literary significance in the author\u2019s biography. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tim-youd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tim-youd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tim-youd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tim-youd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tim-youd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tim-youd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tim-youd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tim-youd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tim-youd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tim-youd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}