{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"BookDragon","provider_url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon","author_name":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","author_url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/author\/riemert\/","title":"The Caprices by Sabina Murray + Author Interview [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Z3nKjZKJUG\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/caprices-by-sabina-murray-author-interveiw-asianweek\/\">The Caprices by Sabina Murray + Author Interview [in AsianWeek]<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/caprices-by-sabina-murray-author-interveiw-asianweek\/embed\/#?secret=Z3nKjZKJUG\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;The Caprices by Sabina Murray + Author Interview [in AsianWeek]&#8221; &#8212; BookDragon\" data-secret=\"Z3nKjZKJUG\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2003\/05\/Caprices.jpg","thumbnail_width":316,"thumbnail_height":475,"description":"Living With War  When Sabina Murray heard she had won the prestigious PEN\/Faulkner Award for her short story collection The Caprices, she was so surprised that she hardly believed it. Not until the house began to rapidly fill with flowers and e-mails arrived from around the world did she realize that \u201cthis was a big deal,\u201d she laughs.  Born in Lancaster, Penn., to a white father and Filipina mother, and raised in Australia and the Philippines, Murray returned to the United States to do her undergrad at Mt. Holyoke and get a master\u2019s at the University of Texas at Austin. When her school days were over, Murray \u201ctried a lot of crazy things,\u201d she says. She sold clothes, shoes, and greeting cards. She was a booking agent for a modeling agency, then tried cocktail waitressing which proved to be \u201cdisastrous,\u201d she confesses.  All along, Murray, 34, knew she wanted to be a writer. \u201cWriting is just a part of my personality,\u201d she says. Even as she was selling balloons at the Old Port Festival in Portland, she was gracing the pages of Vanity Fair for writing her first novel, Slow Burn, about the decadent youth of 1980s Manila, all before she turned 21.  Six years later, she began what would become The Caprices, which captures the brutal effects of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. In this case, the rest is literally literary history.  AsianWeek: How did The Caprices come about? Sabina Murray: It was a long process. I wrote the first story, \u201cIntramuros,\u201d in 1996 and then \u201cWalkabout\u201d a year-and-a-half later. The third story came a year after that, followed by a fourth. I sold the book with those four stories, with the Pacific Campaign as the unifying concept. I wrote the last five after the book sold. It came out in January 2002 and until then, I felt like I was working on it all the time, even though I was doing other things. ...[click here for more]  Author interview: \"Living with War: PEN\/Faulkner Winner Sabina Murray,\" AsianWeek, May 23, 2003  Readers: Adults  Published: 2002"}