{"id":1742,"date":"2021-06-05T07:10:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T06:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2021-06-05T07:11:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T06:11:23","slug":"page-breaks-lydia-davis-five-stories-09-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2021\/06\/05\/page-breaks-lydia-davis-five-stories-09-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Breaks: Lydia Davis &#8216;Five Stories&#8217; &#8211; 09 June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1744\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-05-at-07.03.36-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-05-at-07.03.36-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-05-at-07.03.36-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-05-at-07.03.36-768x513.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-05-at-07.03.36-1536x1025.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2021\/06\/Screenshot-2021-06-05-at-07.03.36.png 1930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This week, we&#8217;re dabbling in flash fiction!\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<h3><strong>&#8220;You see how circumstances are to blame.&#8221;<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<h3>Text (Reading)<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conjunctions.com\/print\/article\/lydia-davis-c24\">Lydia Davis,\u00a0<em>Five Stories<\/em>\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>These are a very quick read, so do feel free to bring other examples of flash fiction for discussion! If you&#8217;d like to check out some others, you might start here: &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/11-very-short-stories-you-must-read-immediately\/\">11 Very Short Stories You Must Read Immediately<\/a>&#8216; (LitHub)<\/p>\r\n<h3>&#8220;Time&#8221; and Place<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Wed 09 June, 1 pm<\/li>\r\n<li>Zoom: <a href=\"https:\/\/bham-ac-uk.zoom.us\/j\/4690415237\">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\/ \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we&#8217;re dabbling in flash fiction!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-21","category-english-lit","category-page-breaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1747,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}