{"id":3010,"date":"2021-11-02T15:54:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T19:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2021-11-02T15:54:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T19:54:32","slug":"the-ha-jin-visiting-lecturer-series-presents-lisa-taddeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2021\/11\/02\/the-ha-jin-visiting-lecturer-series-presents-lisa-taddeo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Series Presents: Lisa Taddeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2021\/10\/LT-HEADSHOT-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"LT HEADSHOT\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2021\/10\/LT-HEADSHOT-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2021\/10\/LT-HEADSHOT-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2021\/10\/LT-HEADSHOT-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2021\/10\/LT-HEADSHOT.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Boston University&#8217;s Program in Creative Writing is thrilled to announce that Lisa Taddeo (Fiction &#8217;17) will be the featured reader for this fall&#8217;s installation of The Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Series, which will take place on November 17 at 7:00 PM. Lisa will be reading from her debut novel,\u00a0<em>Animal<\/em>, and will then participate in a Q&amp;A session after the reading.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa&#8217;s nonfiction book\u00a0<em>Three Women<\/em> was a New York Times bestseller and is being adapted for television by Showtime. In a review for <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, Sophie Gilbert called the book &#8220;an astonishing book of literary reportage.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Eat, Pray, Love\u00a0<\/em>author\u00a0Elizabeth Gilbert remarked: &#8220;<span>I can\u2019t remember the last time a book affected me as profoundly as\u00a0<\/span><i>Three Women<\/i><span>.&#8221; Reviewers of\u00a0<em>Animal\u00a0<\/em>have praised Lisa&#8217;s &#8220;empathy and intelligence and remarkable insight&#8221; (Jennifer Haigh for <em>The New York Times<\/em>) and called the book &#8220;abrasive and unsparing&#8221; (Sandra Newman for\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This event is free and open to the public. Those who wish to attend can use <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonu.zoom.us\/j\/93103633572?pwd=THlod1FRYUwxMW9uWUQ5cGJmZzVKZz09\">this Zoom link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University&#8217;s Program in Creative Writing is thrilled to announce that Lisa Taddeo (Fiction &#8217;17) will be the featured reader for this fall&#8217;s installation of The Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Series, which will take place on November 17 at 7:00 PM. Lisa will be reading from her debut novel,\u00a0Animal, and will then participate in 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\/3010"}],"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=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3014,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions\/3014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}