{"id":2647,"date":"2015-11-20T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2015-11-20T15:46:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T10:46:29","slug":"dwl-lit-bites-nov-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2015\/11\/dwl-lit-bites-nov-20\/","title":{"rendered":"DWL Lit Bites Nov 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, hello! It is Friday and therefore, time for weekend reading! In today&#8217;s edition of DWL Lit Bites we bring you the hilarious stylings of Nicole Cliffe at the Toast who calls out every book a typical white man would have on his shelf. In a similar vein, Rebecca Solnit disregards Esquire&#8217;s list of 80 Books Every Man Should Read with her own 80 Books No Woman Should Read.<\/p>\n<p>1.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/national-book-awards-2015_564cf0a7e4b031745cefa13d?9vfxyldi&amp;ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067\" target=\"_blank\"> The National Book Awards were announced this month<\/a> and the literary community has been very pleased with Ta-Nehisi Coates&#8217; win for Between the World and Me, the most important text for understanding race relations right now.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/80-books-no-woman-should-read\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Solnit rightly takes down Esquire&#8217;s 80 Books Every Man should Read<\/a>. &#8220;All those novels by men that seem to believe that size is everything, the 900-page monsters that, had a woman written them, would be called overweight and told to go on a diet,&#8221; she writes, highlighting the disease of publishing, that books written by men are universal while those by women are chick-lit.<\/p>\n<p>3. <a href=\"http:\/\/the-toast.net\/2015\/05\/12\/books-that-literally-all-white-men-own\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Cliffe at the Toast takes a cheekier stance<\/a> on this publishing problem by making a list of the books every typical white man has. Re White Masculinity: See above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, hello! It is Friday and therefore, time for weekend reading! In today&#8217;s edition of DWL Lit Bites we bring you the hilarious stylings of Nicole Cliffe at the Toast who calls out every book a typical white man would have on his shelf. In a similar vein, Rebecca Solnit disregards Esquire&#8217;s list of 80 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[517],"tags":[633,634,632,635],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647"}],"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=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2650,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions\/2650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}