{"id":40802215491,"date":"2017-06-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/treading-fearlessly-through-satire\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:43:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:43:25","slug":"treading-fearlessly-through-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/treading-fearlessly-through-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Treading Fearlessly Through Satire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gilvarry\u2019s critically-acclaimed debut novel, Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, follows Boy Hernandez, a Filipino immigrant and fashion designer whose American dream crumbles when he\u2019s locked in Guantanamo Bay for alleged ties to a terrorist plot. Cited as a \u201clove letter to New York,\u201d the novel unveils the tantalizing and antipodal worlds of high fashion and homeland security, which overlap in this post-9\/11 world.<\/p>\n

The novel nabbed Gilvarry the Hornblower Award for First Fiction from the New York Society Library and Best New Voice 2012 by Bookspan. It also earned recognition from The New York Times, which listed the novel as an Editor\u2019s Choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s rare for a novel to tread so fearlessly into the political and yet to emerge so deeply funny and humane,\u201d says novelist and satirist Gary Shteyngart. \u201cGilvarry is a young talent on the rise. Watch him gallop through the mess we\u2019ve made of our civilization with style and panache.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gilvarry\u2019s second novel, Eastman Was Here, follows a washed-up war journalist as he is tasked with writing a definitive account of the end of America\u2019s involvement in the morally ambiguous Vietnam War, while navigating through his own existential crisis. Due out from Viking this August, the novel examines one irredeemable man\u2019s search for meaning in the face of advancing age, fading love and a rapidly-changing world.<\/p>\n

Gilvarry, who has received fellowships from the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin and the Norman Mailer Center in New York, has had his essays and criticisms appear in The Nation, Boston Globe and NPR\u2019s All Things Considered, amongst others. He is currently a professor of creative writing at Monmouth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alex Gilvarry\u2019s dark humor is the fulcrum around which his sobering tales can be told with authenticity and unabashed truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40802225230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,64,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40802215491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alex-gilvarry","category-authors","category-literary-arts"],"subheadline":"","youtube":"","thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/568\/2017\/06\/gilvarry-thumb-2.jpg","gallery":null,"featured_img":"\"\"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802215491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802215491"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802215491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802231690,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802215491\/revisions\/40802231690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802225230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802215491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802215491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/mca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802215491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}