{"id":4343,"date":"2014-11-24T11:04:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T16:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2014-11-24T11:04:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T16:04:07","slug":"notes-from-the-november-2014-encore-book-club-angela-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2014\/11\/24\/notes-from-the-november-2014-encore-book-club-angela-carter\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the November 2014 EnCore Book Club: Angela Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/11\/Carter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/11\/Carter.jpg\" alt=\"Carter\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4344\" height=\"500\" width=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/11\/Carter.jpg 318w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/11\/Carter-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hard-Core alums gathered on Guy Fawkes Day (November 5th) to discuss Angela Carter&#8217;s award-winning novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/653651.Nights_at_the_Circus\"><em>Nights at the Circus<\/em><\/a>. Over delicious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpelon.com\/\">El Pelon<\/a> Mexican fare and several bottles of wine and beer, we bantered about Cockney accents, multiple voice narratives, and fin-de-siecle Europe&#8217;s fascination with the freaky, the sleazy, and the revolutionary.<\/p>\n<p>Is Fevvers (supposed to sound like &#8220;Feathers&#8221;), the Winged Victory, the virginal Flying Lady, the toast of Europe, a big fraud (both in terms of her girth and the magnitude of her deception)? Hard to say, since we can&#8217;t be sure we can trust any of the witnesses to her Grand Tour through London, St. Petersburg, and Siberia.<\/p>\n<p>After Morrison, Poe, and Carter, we will be taking one last plunge into Gothic lit with our December 3rd choice: Nathaniel Hawthorne&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/441230.The_House_of_the_Seven_Gables\"><em>The House of the Seven Gables<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Join us at 6pm on the first Wednesday of the month for free food, boozes, and talkiness. No need to read the book, just come with some conversation to contribute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/11\/7gables-salem-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/11\/7gables-salem-web.jpg\" alt=\"7gables salem web\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4345\" height=\"287\" width=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/11\/7gables-salem-web.jpg 442w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/11\/7gables-salem-web-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard-Core alums gathered on Guy Fawkes Day (November 5th) to discuss Angela Carter&#8217;s award-winning novel, Nights at the Circus. Over delicious El Pelon Mexican fare and several bottles of wine and beer, we bantered about Cockney accents, multiple voice narratives, and fin-de-siecle Europe&#8217;s fascination with the freaky, the sleazy, and the revolutionary. Is Fevvers (supposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2934,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,3695,7464],"tags":[48731,48324,3696,48736,48632],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2934"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4346,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions\/4346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}