{"id":1179,"date":"2014-02-28T14:57:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T19:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2014-02-28T15:01:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T20:01:17","slug":"the-friday-short-list-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2014\/02\/28\/the-friday-short-list-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Short List"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/02\/20090623_mccann_250x375.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/02\/20090623_mccann_250x375-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"20090623_mccann_250x375\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1180 alignleft\" height=\"300\" width=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2014\/02\/20090623_mccann_250x375-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2014\/02\/20090623_mccann_250x375.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Happy Birthday, Colum McCann!<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hello all!\u00a0 It&#8217;s been another happily busy week at 236 Bay State.\u00a0 We&#8217;re getting ready for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/calendar\/\">Annual Faculty Reading<\/a>, and the deadline for applying to our intense and thrilling MFA program is tomorrow, so hurry, hurry, and best of luck!\u00a0 Here are some links for a wordy weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the birthday of Irish writer <a href=\"http:\/\/colummccann.com\/\">Colum McCann<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/28\/mary-gaitskill-writing\/\">Mary Gaitskill<\/a> tells us why writers write.<\/p>\n<p>What can <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/24\/confessions-of-a-lifelong-eavesdropper-for-2-25\/\">eavesdropping<\/a> do for your writing?<\/p>\n<p>Bought this <a href=\"http:\/\/coolmaterial.com\/home\/midori-brass-pencil\/\">brass pencil<\/a> last summer on a whim.\u00a0 A good whim.<\/p>\n<p>Southern Gothic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5PIi0hIT4XQ&amp;feature=kp\">lyrics<\/a> up for analysis.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure we can all <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.nicoink.com\/?product=tote-bag-01\">agree<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An exhilarating poem by <a href=\"https:\/\/poetrying.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/16\/oranges-mary-oliver\/\">Mary Oliver<\/a> for your Friday.<\/p>\n<p>BU Creative Writing&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.com\/event\/dan_chiasson\/\">Dan Chiasson<\/a> at Harvard Book Store very soon!<\/p>\n<p>Remember sentence diagrams from grade school?\u00a0 Mapping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/article\/science\/famous-novels-first-sentences-mapped-infographic\">famous first sentences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have a lovely weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday, Colum McCann! &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Hello all!\u00a0 It&#8217;s been another happily busy week at 236 Bay State.\u00a0 We&#8217;re getting ready for the Annual Faculty Reading, and the deadline for applying to our intense and thrilling MFA program is tomorrow, so hurry, hurry, and best of luck!\u00a0 Here are some [&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\/1179"}],"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=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}