{"id":105060,"date":"2016-11-21T18:06:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T23:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=105060"},"modified":"2016-11-22T10:38:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T15:38:09","slug":"win-free-tickets-92ys-celebration-albert-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/21\/win-free-tickets-92ys-celebration-albert-murray\/","title":{"rendered":"Win Free Tickets to 92Y\u2019s Celebration of Albert Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/albert-murray-classic-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-105063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/albert-murray-classic-photo.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, November 28, 92Y will host Renata Adler, Paul Devlin, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Wynton Marsalis, and Ayana Mathis for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.92y.org\/Event\/A-Celebration-of-Albert-Murray\" target=\"_blank\">a celebration of Albert Murray<\/a>, the critic, novelist, essayist, and biographer, who died in 2013. 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