{"id":25313,"date":"2024-02-26T09:15:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T14:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=25313"},"modified":"2024-02-27T20:04:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T01:04:30","slug":"what-would-you-recommend-from-contemporary-anglo-american-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/02\/26\/what-would-you-recommend-from-contemporary-anglo-american-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"What would you recommend from contemporary Anglo-American literature?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/aw02262024-07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/aw02262024-07.jpg\" alt=\"What would you recommend from contemporary Anglo-American literature?\" class=\"wp-image-25312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/aw02262024-07.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/aw02262024-07-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What would you recommend from contemporary Anglo-American literature?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You could do worse than to find everything by the writers in the Lowell series this spring: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-lowell.\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-lowell.<\/a> For more, peruse this New Yorker list of essential reads of 2023. On this list, Paul Murray, Ben Austen, &amp; Ben Lerner all spoke at BC recently, BC&#8217;s Min Song introduced Viet Thanh Nguyen in his inaugural Norton Lecture at Harvard, and Jon Fosse was featured in an O&#8217;Neill Library book display. A staff favorite is Barbara Kingsolver&#8217;s <em>Demon Copperhead. <\/em>BC&#8217;s own Elizabeth Graver wrote the can&#8217;t-miss <em>Kantika<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could do worse than to find everything by the writers in the Lowell series this spring: https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-lowell. For more, peruse this New Yorker list of essential reads of 2023. On this list, Paul Murray, Ben Austen, &amp; Ben Lerner all spoke at BC recently, BC&#8217;s Min Song introduced Viet Thanh Nguyen in his inaugural &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/02\/26\/what-would-you-recommend-from-contemporary-anglo-american-literature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What would you recommend from contemporary Anglo-American literature?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25333,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25313\/revisions\/25333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}