{"id":1369,"date":"2014-06-06T16:28:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T20:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2014-06-06T16:30:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T20:30:24","slug":"happy-friday-from-bu-creative-writing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2014\/06\/06\/happy-friday-from-bu-creative-writing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday from BU Creative Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/06\/Erdrich.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/06\/Erdrich-300x220.jpeg\" alt=\"Erdrich\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2014\/06\/Erdrich-300x220.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2014\/06\/Erdrich.jpeg 539w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>\u201cWe do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.\u201d<\/h2>\n<h2>&#8211;Louise Erdrich<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hello, all! \u00a0Tomorrow is the birthday of Louise Erdrich. \u00a0She will be 60. \u00a0Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fiction\/features\/2014\/03\/31\/140331fi_fiction_erdrich\">a recent story<\/a> by her.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no! Apparently,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/scienceofus\/2014\/05\/even-grammarians-are-misusing-exclamation-marks.html\">exclamation marks are unstoppable!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great Scott! \u00a0Here&#8217;s a poem by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/agni\/poetry\/online\/2014\/ruescher.html\">Scott Ruescher<\/a>, a friend of mine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2014\/06\/09\/140609fa_fact_talbot?currentPage=all\"><em>The\u00a0New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0thinks John Green is the man<\/a>. \u00a0He&#8217;s wicked smart, and his novels ask questions about forgiveness, death and mortality, and what makes life meaningful. \u00a0I expect throngs of teenage girls and tissues in disarray at the\u00a0<em>The Fault in Our Stars\u00a0<\/em>viewing tonight.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s an essay positing that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/books\/2014\/06\/against_ya_adults_should_be_embarrassed_to_read_children_s_books.2.html\">adults should not read young adult books<\/a>. \u00a0Check out the riveting comments, too.<\/p>\n<p>How to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/the-ultimate-guide-to-writing-better-than-you-normally-do\">write better than you normally do<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And once more this summer, why not read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freewebs.com\/lanzbom\/EBWhiteLakeEssay.pdf\">essay by E.B. White<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.\u201d &#8211;Louise Erdrich &nbsp; Hello, all! \u00a0Tomorrow is the birthday of Louise Erdrich. \u00a0She will be 60. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a recent story by her. Oh, no! Apparently,\u00a0exclamation marks are unstoppable! Great [&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\/1369"}],"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=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}