{"181771":{"#nid":"181771","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Alumnus Butler on the Power of Writing","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI didn\u2019t know fiction did those things,\u201d says IAC alumnus and Atlanta author \u003Cstrong\u003EBlake Butler\u003C\/strong\u003E, recalling a David Foster Wallace book he received for Christmas while studying computer science at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;\u201cThat was like the high watermark of what I\u2019d found. After I read it, I just started writing voraciously.\u0022 He also switched his major to \u0022the most liberal arts degree he could find at Tech.\u0022 \u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.accessatlanta.com\/news\/entertainment\/for-author-blake-butler-its-an-abstract-world\/nTqcL\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAccess Atlanta\u003C\/a\u003E, January 8, 2013\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27663","created_gmt":"2013-01-09 10:45:26","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:12","author":"Rebecca Rolfe","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"X-Ray Computed Tomography","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.accessatlanta.com\/news\/entertainment\/for-author-blake-butler-its-an-abstract-world\/nTqcL\/","dateline":{"date":"2013-01-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-01-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[{"id":"130","name":"Alumni"}],"keywords":[{"id":"54551","name":"Blake Butler"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}