{"id":5610,"date":"2017-08-19T17:08:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T21:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2017-08-19T17:08:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T21:08:39","slug":"weekly-round-up-8-19-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/08\/19\/weekly-round-up-8-19-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Round-Up, 8-19-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bon weekend, Corelings! We hope these last few weeks of summer break are treating you well. Now onto the links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ICYMI: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/core\/academics\/minor\/\">The Core minor is now live.<\/a> This is BIG, folks.<\/li>\n<li>A solar eclipse is scheduled for this Monday, August 21. If you are currently in Boston, the best time to witness the event (taking care not to burn your eyeballs) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonmagazine.com\/arts-entertainment\/blog\/2017\/08\/17\/boston-solar-eclipse-viewing-parties\/\">between the hours of 1:30 PM and 4 PM<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Mark Twain once wrote a book asking <em>Is Shakespeare Dead?<\/em>, in which he basically insinuated that Shakespeare did not, in fact, write his own plays. Joe Falocco, author of <em>Is Mark Twain Dead?<\/em>, speculates that Twain was butthurt that <a href=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/shakespeare-dead-or-alive\/\">he could not hang with\/be Shakespeare<\/a>. Sounds reasonable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Shakespeare_1050x700-870x580.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"220\" alt=\"Is Shakespeare dead?  We may never know.\" class=\"\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is Shakespeare dead? We may never know. Shakespeare by John Taylor, 1610. (Via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Shakespeare.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Young Marx<\/em>, <del>sequel to <em>The Young Pope<\/em><\/del> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.londontheatre.co.uk\/theatre-news\/news\/full-cast-joining-rory-kinnear-in-young-marx-announced\">a play regarding Karl Marx&#8217;s time in Soho<\/a>, is coming soon to the recently opened Bridge Theatre in London. Meanwhile, in Manchester, fans of communism&#8217;s favorite drinking buddies Marx and Engels will be sorry to hear that the pub that housed&#8211;allegedly&#8211;discussions of &#8220;communist revolution&#8221; is now &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/karl-marx-friedrich-engels-communist-manifesto-salford-manchester-history-pub-marxism-a7882736.html\">closed until further notice.<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Graphic novel <em>Heretics!<\/em> by Steven and Ben Nadler, published by Princeton University Press (and going for the princely sum of $44.99), illustrates &#8220;The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy,&#8221; a tale that includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/books\/heretics-review-steven-and-ben-nadler-take-a-graphic-look-at-philosophy-20170811-gxui3w.html\">familiar characters like Hobbes, Spinoza, Galileo, Descartes, and Newton<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Wilde About Whitman<\/em>, the master&#8217;s thesis-turned-play by playwright\/librettist\/performance artist David Simpatico, details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyfreeman.com\/arts-and-entertainment\/20170817\/bridge-street-theatre-in-catskill-presents-reading-of-wilde-about-whitman-on-aug-19\">the meeting of Whitman fanatic Oscar Wilde and his idol<\/a> in an event tinto the beginning of Wilde&#8217;s career and the end of Whitman&#8217;s. It will be read tonight by A Howl of Playwrights at the Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, New York.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;ll do it! Remember to come back next week for more updates in the world of great books!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bon weekend, Corelings! We hope these last few weeks of summer break are treating you well. Now onto the links: ICYMI: The Core minor is now live. This is BIG, folks. A solar eclipse is scheduled for this Monday, August 21. 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