{"id":2309,"date":"2017-01-13T11:20:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T16:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2017-01-13T11:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T16:22:29","slug":"recommended-reading-from-our-mfas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2017\/01\/13\/recommended-reading-from-our-mfas\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Reading From Our MFAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2017\/01\/bowiereading-2-300x283.jpg\" alt=\"bowiereading-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-2310 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2017\/01\/bowiereading-2-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2017\/01\/bowiereading-2.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><em>Q: What is your idea of perfect happiness?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> A: Reading.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>-David Bowie, who would have been 70 last Sunday, answering the Proust Questionnaire<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Below are a few of the books that our current MFAs read over winter break:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Homegoing<\/em> by Yaa Gyasi and <em>The God of Small Things<\/em> by Arundhati Roy<br \/>\n-Kate Selker, fiction<\/p>\n<p><em>Dante&#8217;s Inferno,<\/em> trans. by Robert Pinsky and <em>Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York,<\/em> ed. Sari Botton<br \/>\n-Annie Diamond, poetry<\/p>\n<p><em>H is for Hawk<\/em> by Helen MacDonald and <em>What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours<\/em> by Helen Oyeyemi<br \/>\n-Jowhor Ile, fiction<\/p>\n<p><em>Invisible Cities<\/em> by Italo Calvino and <em>Physical<\/em> by Andrew McMillan<br \/>\n-Dan Grover, poetry<\/p>\n<p><em>New American Stories<\/em>, ed. Ben Marcus and <em>Bleak House<\/em> by Charles Dickens<br \/>\n-Fredric Sinclair, fiction<\/p>\n<p><em>Lady Chatterley&#8217;s Lover<\/em> by D.H. Lawrence and <em>White Teeth<\/em> by Zadie Smith<br \/>\n-Vandana Saras, fiction<\/p>\n<p><em>Hot Milk<\/em> by Deborah Levy and <em>House of Lords and Commons<\/em> by Ishion Hutchinson<br \/>\n-Lisa Taddeo-Waite, fiction<\/p>\n<p>Happy reading, all!<\/p>\n<p>-BU Creative Writing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What is your idea of perfect happiness? A: Reading. -David Bowie, who would have been 70 last Sunday, answering the Proust Questionnaire Below are a few of the books that our current MFAs read over winter break: &nbsp; Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi and The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy -Kate Selker, fiction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[858],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309"}],"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=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}