{"id":1191,"date":"2025-09-05T16:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/1191\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:22:07","slug":"r-f-kuangs-katabasis-follows-2-grad-students-descent-into-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/1191\/","title":{"rendered":"R.F. Kuang&#8217;s &#8216;Katabasis&#8217; follows 2 grad students&#8217; descent into hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Best-selling author <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfkuang.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">R.F. Kuang<\/a>&#8216;s new fantasy book, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Katabasis-Standard-Novel-R-Kuang\/dp\/0063446243?adgrpid=185328944624&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvadid=748008426864&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=5631973906117973822&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9001997&amp;hvtargid=dsa-2414841786606&amp;hydadcr=&amp;mcid=&amp;hvocijid=5631973906117973822--&amp;hvexpln=67&amp;tag=googhydr-20&amp;hvsb=Literature_d&amp;hvcampaign=dsadesk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katabasis<\/a>,&#8221; centers around two graduate students studying magic at Cambridge University who make a journey to hell to rescue their recently deceased thesis advisor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">At a recent event in Boston, Kuang spoke with Here &amp; Now&#8217;s Emiko Tamagawa, and we air an excerpt of that conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Book excerpt: &#8216;Katabasis&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">By R.F. Kuang<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Excerpted from the book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/katabasis-r-f-kuang?variant=43488912637986\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katabasis<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0by R.F. Kuang. Copyright \u00a9 2025 by R.F. Kuang. From Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Reprinted by permission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This segment airs on September 5, 2025. Audio will be available after the broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best-selling author R.F. Kuang&#8216;s new fantasy book, &#8220;Katabasis,&#8221; centers around two graduate students studying magic at Cambridge University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[288,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}