{"id":2801,"date":"2016-03-11T23:12:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T18:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=2801"},"modified":"2016-03-11T23:12:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T18:12:50","slug":"dwl-lit-bites-mar-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2016\/03\/dwl-lit-bites-mar-11\/","title":{"rendered":"DWL Lit Bites – Mar 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh dear, this very late round up of links is brought to you by neurotic tweeting and endless cups of tea. I have some super fun links for you all so let’s jump into it, we have a Women’s Day edition on our hands!<\/p>\n

1. Helen Oyeyemi’s latest book is out! It is called What is Not Yours Is Not Yours<\/em> which is a very apt title for when you do not want to lend this amazing collection of short stories to anyone. Basically, I want to use this news to direct you to Riverhead Books’ Instagram<\/a> which you really should check out for some amazing book inspo.<\/p>\n

2. So a bout of sadness of the time wasted not reading brought me to Paste Magazine’s 30 Books to Read Before You Are 30<\/a>. At first I thought “Oh great, another list filled with white men,” but no it has some amazing books like A Visit From the Goon Squad<\/em> by Jennifer Egan and Americanah<\/em> by Chimimandah Adichie.<\/p>\n

3. Women’s Day was this past week and if you are one of those people who reads books predominantly by men then you need to check out Alexander Chee Twitter feed<\/a>. He said every like on his tweet will guarantee a book by a woman and that THREAD IS TILL GOING STRONG. There are about 500 books now so you will never have an excuse for not picking up a book by a woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh dear, this very late round up of links is brought to you by neurotic tweeting and endless cups of tea. I have some super fun links for you all so let’s jump into it, we have a Women’s Day edition on our hands! 1. Helen Oyeyemi’s latest book is out! It is called What […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[517,1],"tags":[693,692,694,448,695],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801"}],"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=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}