{"id":3217,"date":"2021-10-18T13:44:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T17:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?post_type=book&#038;p=3217"},"modified":"2021-10-22T11:43:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T15:43:51","slug":"vamp-until-ready","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/book\/vamp-until-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Vamp Until Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">James Magruder \u201982<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Magruder, who holds a doctorate in dramaturgy and dramatic criticism from Yale, is an author and playwright whose r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes the book of the 1997 Broadway musical <em>Triumph of Love<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/58918334-vamp-until-ready\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">His latest work<\/a> is a novel-length series of connected stories set in and around the Ithaca theater scene from 1980\u201392\u2014featuring such real-life locales as the Cornell and Ithaca College campuses, the Hangar Theatre, and Simeon\u2019s restaurant. 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