{"id":1594,"date":"2014-10-17T15:54:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T19:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2014-10-17T15:56:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T19:56:41","slug":"literary-links-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2014\/10\/17\/literary-links-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment1596\" style=\"width: 464px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/10\/Charles-Edward-Perugini-Girl-Reading-Print.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment1596\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/10\/Charles-Edward-Perugini-Girl-Reading-Print-810x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Charles-Edward-Perugini-Girl-Reading-Print\" width=\"454\" height=\"574\" class=\" wp-image-1596 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2014\/10\/Charles-Edward-Perugini-Girl-Reading-Print-810x1024.jpg 810w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2014\/10\/Charles-Edward-Perugini-Girl-Reading-Print-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment1596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Young Girl Reading by Jean-Honor\u00e9 Fragonard, c. 1776.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been quite busy here at BU Creative Writing &#8212; on Tuesday, Katie McGunagle and Nina Palisano read at Writers at the Black Box, the first one of the year! &#8212; and tonight, Jeff Huizinga and Daniel Leonard will be reading at the Breakwater Reading Series at Brookline Booksmith (7 PM). \u00a0Please come support our current MFA candidates!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some literary links to start off your fall weekend:<\/p>\n<p>Check out this new independent press, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyewearpublishing.com\/books\/\">Eyewear<\/a>, based in the UK. \u00a0(They&#8217;re open to submission queries.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/calendar\/?uid=158778@17.calendar.bu.edu&amp;day=2014-10-18\">Pinsky, Wine, &amp; Jazz<\/a> tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading Tamar Adler&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/books.simonandschuster.com\/Everlasting-Meal\/Tamar-Adler\/9781439181881\"><em>An Everlasting Meal<\/em><\/a>, modeled after M.F.K. Fisher&#8217;s classic\u00a0<em>How to Cook a Wolf,\u00a0<\/em>and it&#8217;s filled with delightful and philosophical meditations on food and living.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s possible to <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2014\/10\/do-the-word.html\">bend language to your will<\/a>, to invest extraordinary amounts of effort and care to make words do what you want them to do.&#8221; &#8211; Seth Godin<\/p>\n<p>The George Saunders Fan Club (me + three reading friends) is reading\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/engl273g-f11-cerrone.wikispaces.umb.edu\/file\/view\/Victory+Lap+_+The+New+Yorker-1.pdf\">&#8220;Victory Lap&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0for next week&#8217;s meeting. \u00a0Did you know George has a B.S. in geophysical engineering from Colorado School of Mines?<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was Oscar Wilde&#8217;s birthday. Here are a few of his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/10\/16\/oscar-wilde-a-few-maxims-for-the-instruction-of-the-over-educated\/\">Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday from BU Creative Writing, and we hope your weekend is filled with wild and whirling words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been quite busy here at BU Creative Writing &#8212; on Tuesday, Katie McGunagle and Nina Palisano read at Writers at the Black Box, the first one of the year! &#8212; and tonight, Jeff Huizinga and Daniel Leonard will be reading at the Breakwater Reading Series at Brookline Booksmith (7 PM). \u00a0Please come support our [&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":[8810,8807,8809,8805,8808,8806],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594"}],"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=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}