{"id":2745,"date":"2016-01-22T13:30:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T08:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2016-01-22T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T08:30:49","slug":"dwl-lit-bites-jan-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/dwl-lit-bites-jan-22\/","title":{"rendered":"DWL Lit Bites &#8211; Jan 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello bibliophiles! Did you hear about the online poetry workshop that we have going on our site? \u00a0R<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/desiwriterslounge\/photos\/a.320934937342.157881.158649307342\/10153218698927343\/?type=3&amp;theater\">egister now if you haven&#8217;t already<\/a>. We guarantee you and your poems will emerge workshopped and wiser. And now for this week in literary news:<\/p>\n<p>1. Remember last week when I was all about <a href=\"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/dwl-lit-bites-jan-15\/\">American Housewife by Helen Ellis<\/a>? Well, what is life without a thinkpiece or two, especially about books about housewives? Over at Slate, Laura Miller discusses why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/books\/2016\/01\/american_housewife_department_of_speculation_hausfrau_and_the_resurgence.html\">the housewife novel is making a comeback<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2. Re: the above item, The New Yorker published a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-ideal-marriage-according-to-novels\"> fantastic essay about marriage and the novel<\/a>. &#8220;In literature, the desire to find an equal, and the belief that love in its ideal form should comprise a meeting of minds as well as bodies, appears to be a much greater psychological driver for women than it is for men. This abstract difference ripples through the novels that men and women write in all sorts of ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3. Moving on to less domestic matters, Jan 19 was the birthday of the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. Interesting Lit has <a href=\"http:\/\/interestingliterature.com\/2015\/10\/22\/the-best-edgar-allan-poe-stories\/\">compiled a list of 10 of his stories<\/a> everyone should read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello bibliophiles! Did you hear about the online poetry workshop that we have going on our site? \u00a0Register now if you haven&#8217;t already. We guarantee you and your poems will emerge workshopped and wiser. And now for this week in literary news: 1. Remember last week when I was all about American Housewife by Helen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[517],"tags":[670,667,668,669,278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745"}],"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=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2747,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions\/2747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}