{"id":2638,"date":"2015-11-13T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T09:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2015-11-13T14:48:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T09:48:59","slug":"dwl-lit-bites-nov-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2015\/11\/dwl-lit-bites-nov-13\/","title":{"rendered":"DWL Lit Bites Nov 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, readers! If you are in Karachi and kicking it at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kibf.com.pk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Karachi International Book Fair<\/a> then good on you. If not, what are you doing? Get thee to a book stall and share your hauls with us at #DWLbookhaul on Twitter and Instagram. When you get a moment free from book shopping, check out our literary reads\u00a0for the week:<\/p>\n<p>1. In a time when racial tensions have permeated the global conversation, we turn to literature for solace. What did Shakespeare mean when he said Othello was black? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/theater\/2015\/11\/why_is_othello_black_understanding_why_shakespeare_made_his_hero_a_moor.1.html\" target=\"_blank\">The answer, surprisingly, lies in the Muslim Ottomans and pirate ships<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2. Countless think pieces try to add their two cents to the question: &#8220;Is this the golden age of literary television?&#8221; From Mad Men to Breaking Bad, there has been a slew of shows that have the slow burn of literary novels and plots of Shakespearean tragedy. But there is a flip side, too. Over at The Millions, Jacob Lambert <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2015\/11\/too-real-to-be-real-the-problem-of-authentic-tv.html\" target=\"_blank\">highlights the problem when TV is a little too authentic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3. Unpublished manuscripts are to literary nerds what a rare fossil is to an archaeologist.<a href=\"http:\/\/electricliterature.com\/unpublished-short-story-by-edith-wharton-discovered-at-yale-university\/\" target=\"_blank\"> A complete story written by Edith Wharton <\/a>was found in the Yale&#8217;s\u00a0Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Covered with edits and annotations there is no doubt it is Edith Wharton because of the handwriting and other clues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, readers! If you are in Karachi and kicking it at the Karachi International Book Fair then good on you. If not, what are you doing? Get thee to a book stall and share your hauls with us at #DWLbookhaul on Twitter and Instagram. When you get a moment free from book shopping, check out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[517],"tags":[629,631,628,446,630],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638"}],"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=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2643,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions\/2643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}