{"id":1288,"date":"2020-10-08T10:09:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T09:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2021-01-08T16:27:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T16:27:48","slug":"page-breaks-malfunctioning-sex-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2020\/10\/08\/page-breaks-malfunctioning-sex-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Breaks: Malfunctioning Sex Robot &#8211; the Art of the Scathing Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1289\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/10\/updike-simpsons.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Page Breaks this week will be on Wed 14 October at 1pm. We&#8217;ll be thinking about the art of a scathing review &#8211; and what we do with authors whose work is admired by some and reviled by others.\u00a0 Our text this week is Patricia Lockwood&#8217;s 2019 review of John Updike&#8217;s fiction, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/the-paper\/v41\/n19\/patricia-lockwood\/malfunctioning-sex-robot\">Malfunctioning Sex Robot<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<blockquote>&#8220;I was hired\u200b as an assassin. You don\u2019t bring in a 37-year-old woman to review John Updike in the year of our Lord 2019 unless you\u2019re hoping to see blood on the ceiling.&#8221;<\/blockquote>\r\n<h3>Text (Reading)<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Patricia Lockwood, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/the-paper\/v41\/n19\/patricia-lockwood\/malfunctioning-sex-robot\">Malfunctioning Sex Robot<\/a>&#8221; (LRB, 2019)<\/li>\r\n<li>There&#8217;s also an audio version of the article on the same page.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>If the link is not accessible for you, you can access the reading on our <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/page-breaks-texts\/\">texts page<\/a> (email d.butchard@bham.ac.uk for the password).<\/li>\r\n<li>Thanks to Liam Harrison for suggesting our text this week!<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>Time and Place<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Wed 14 October, 1 pm<\/li>\r\n<li>Zoom: <a href=\"https:\/\/bham-ac-uk.zoom.us\/j\/86380972641?pwd=bkJNOGQ4V3JNb3FkaXZKOUpwUEZYQT09\">Link<\/a>\u00a0(Password: pagebreaks)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Looking forward to seeing you all again soon! This event is run by Dorothy Butchard and Toria Johnson (d.butchard@bham.ac.uk and t.johnson@bham.ac.uk). Please email us if you have any questions, but you&#8217;re welcome to just turn up.<\/p>\r\n<h3><strong>About Page Breaks<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<h2><\/h2>\r\n<p>This is an informal weekly reading group within the Department of English Literature. All welcome! https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/page-breaks\/<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Page Breaks this week will be on Wed 14 October at 1pm. 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