{"id":2594,"date":"2015-10-30T15:17:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T10:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2015-10-30T15:18:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T10:18:48","slug":"dwl-lit-bites-oct-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2015\/10\/dwl-lit-bites-oct-30\/","title":{"rendered":"DWL Lit Bites Oct 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>DWL Lit Bites is DWL Blog\u2019s weekly roundup of literary news. Send us your suggestions on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/desiwriterslounge\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, tweet at us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/desi_writers\" target=\"_blank\">@desi_writers<\/a>\u00a0or leave a comment!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hello readers! In this week&#8217;s Lit Bites, we bring you links from the macabre couple itself, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, as well as an interview with the best parody Twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@GuyinYourMFA\" target=\"_blank\">@GuyinYourMFA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>1. Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932. In honor of the brilliant poet and author, <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/544640\/for-sylvia-plaths-birthday-experience-her-most-haunting-lines-about-birth-and-death\" target=\"_blank\">Flavorwire rounded up her best quotes<\/a> on birth and death.<\/p>\n<p>2. Interestingly, Plath was married to that other literary giant, Ted Hughes, who died October 28, 1998. Alex Miller Jr. at The Millions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2015\/10\/rival-muses-on-jonathan-bates-ted-hughes-the-unauthorized-life.html\" target=\"_blank\">reviews Jonathan Bates&#8217; biography of the poet<\/a>, who remained as elusive as ever, in his works and his personal life.<\/p>\n<p>3. If you follow literary Twitter, then you must be\u00a0familiar with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@GuyinYourMFA\" target=\"_blank\">@GuyinYourMFA <\/a>in which Dana Schwartz parodies that literary mansplainer in every class who thinks you need workshop advice. <a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/anthony-marra-interviews-guy-in-your-mfa-genius-ensues\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Marra interviews this millennial genius<\/a> and hilarity ensues.<\/p>\n<p>4. Over on this side of the world, a Pakistani author was denied an Indian visa to attend a literary festival. <a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/979179\/pakistani-author-denied-indian-visa-for-literary-festival\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DWL Lit Bites is DWL Blog\u2019s weekly roundup of literary news. Send us your suggestions on Facebook, tweet at us @desi_writers or leave a comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[517],"tags":[621,622,620,618,99,619,608],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}