{"id":1136,"date":"2014-02-21T14:46:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T19:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2014-02-21T15:03:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T20:03:06","slug":"the-friday-short-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2014\/02\/21\/the-friday-short-list\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Short List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/02\/chuck-palahniuk-sarah-lee-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/02\/chuck-palahniuk-sarah-lee-1-300x180.jpeg\" alt=\"chuck-palahniuk-sarah-lee-1\" class=\" wp-image-1138 alignleft\" height=\"280\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">&#8220;Some stories you use up. Others use you up.&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Happy Birthday, Chuck Palahniuk!<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Some links to start off your weekend with wild and whirling words:<\/p>\n<p>BU poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmqreview.com\/14Winter\/index2.html\">Tara Skurtu<\/a> published in DMQ Review!<\/p>\n<p>BU poet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmqreview.com\/14Winter\/index2.html\">Laura Marris<\/a> published in DMQ Review, too!<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyfreepress.com\/2014\/02\/20\/pulitzer-winning-author-and-alum-speaks-to-bu-about-new-book\/\">Jhumpa Lahiri and Daphne Kalotay<\/a> had a conversation in front of us all.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, 826 Boston kicked off their <a href=\"http:\/\/826boston.org\/blog\/1090\/join-the-3rd-annual-write-a-thon\">Write-A-Thon<\/a>, complete with Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s typewriter. \u00a0(Sign up!)<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, current MFA students will be reading their work at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/254580568036545\/\">Breakwater Reading Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remembering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/19\/books\/mavis-gallant-short-story-writer-dies-at-91.html?ref=books\">Mavis Gallant.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re not tired of snow yet:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2014\/02\/poetry-podcast-john-ashbery-reads-charles-simic.html\">John Ashberry reads Charles Simic.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday from BU Creative Writing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Some stories you use up. Others use you up.&#8221; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Happy Birthday, Chuck Palahniuk! Some links to start off your weekend with wild and whirling words: BU poet Tara Skurtu published in DMQ Review! BU poet Laura Marris published in DMQ Review, too! On Wednesday, Jhumpa Lahiri and Daphne Kalotay had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}