{"id":817,"date":"2024-03-15T08:14:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T15:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=817"},"modified":"2024-03-15T08:15:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T15:15:06","slug":"mickey-spillanes-miami-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2024\/03\/15\/mickey-spillanes-miami-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Mickey Spillane\u2019s Miami (and More) by Shosana Milgram"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Ayn Rand admired Mickey Spillane as a writer and a crusader: \u201ca brilliant literary talent\u201d and a \u201cmoral absolutist.\u201d Several of his novels, including the two-book series about Morgan the Raider (a pirate with an enigmatic past and mysterious motivations) were set partially or completely in Miami. One character, amazed at his first glimpse of the homes and hotels of the Miami skyline, asks: \u201cHow could men with their bare hands build such a place?\u201d This talk, in addition to describing the stories and settings of Spillane\u2019s Miami novels, will include new information about his life and parallels between his writing and the work of writers he admired, including Alexandre Dumas and Ayn Rand, whom he considered a personal friend.<br><br>Recorded live on July 1 at OCON 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayn Rand admired Mickey Spillane as a writer and a crusader: \u201ca brilliant literary talent\u201d and a \u201cmoral absolutist.\u201d Several of his novels, including the two-book series about Morgan the Raider (a pirate with an enigmatic past and mysterious motivations) were set partially or completely in Miami. One character, amazed at his first glimpse of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}