{"id":2614,"date":"2015-11-06T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2015-11-06T12:40:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T07:40:36","slug":"dwl-lit-bites-nov-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2015\/11\/dwl-lit-bites-nov-6\/","title":{"rendered":"DWL Lit Bites Nov 6"},"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>It is another week and I am back with a roundup of all things literary. This week we have the most epic friend-zoning letter from our feminist love Charlotte Bront\u00eb, and when books incept other books within their pages. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>1. Rejecting marriage proposals is something that is part of the South Asian package so it is nice when a literary giant puts that feeling into words. The 19th Century English novelist Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u00a0was always a master wordsmith and that made writing beautiful rejection letters pretty easy for her. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2014\/05\/01\/charlotte-bronte-marriage-proposal-refusal\/\" target=\"_blank\">This specimen\u00a0is &#8220;a bold defiance of oppressive gender ideals, packaged as the ultimate it\u2019s-not-you-it\u2019s-me gentle letdown.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Don&#8217;t you just love it when books mention other books and make you want to read them? This happened to me regarding <em>Jane Eyre<\/em> (it was mentioned in <em>The Princess Diaries<\/em>, don&#8217;t judge) and <em>Reading Lolita in Tehran<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pshares.org\/index.php\/reading-about-reading\/\" target=\"_blank\">At Ploughshares, Clare Beams breaks down<\/a> the act of reading a book in which a character is also reading.<\/p>\n<p>3. Donna Tartt won the Pulitzer in 2014 for her novel, <em>The Goldfinch<\/em>. Recently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/literarybennington.tumblr.com\/post\/132440173479\/the-potency-of-place-donna-tartts-graduation\" target=\"_blank\">her 1986 speech to her graduating class at Bennington College<\/a>\u00a0was unearthed. At the time of giving the speech, she had already started work on her first\u00a0novel, which made her burst on to the literary scene. That debut\u00a0book,\u00a0<em>The Secret History <\/em>(1992), is a campus novel that bound her identity with Bennington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DWL Lit Bites is DWL Blog\u2019s weekly roundup of literary news. Send us your suggestions on\u00a0Facebook, tweet at us\u00a0@desi_writers\u00a0or leave a comment! It is another week and I am back with a roundup of all things literary. This week we have the most epic friend-zoning letter from our feminist love Charlotte Bront\u00eb, and when books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[517],"tags":[524,625,623,624],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614"}],"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=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions\/2621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}