{"id":173,"date":"2014-11-28T19:53:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T19:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbaraboyden.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2014-11-28T20:08:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T20:08:57","slug":"this-is-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbaraboyden.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"This is the beginning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/barbaraboyden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/feuilleton.jpg\" alt=\"feuilleton\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many of the things I write are short notes to anyone and everyone. It took me years to find they have their own bona fide category of writings &#8212; Feuilletons.<\/p>\n<p>I share these feuilletons and other thoughts, with <em>Malt \u2018n Murder<\/em>, my writing group of four.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Hey guys, I think this is what I&#8217;m doing. \u00a0I found it in the editor&#8217;s note in the American Scholar, a publication that&#8217;s full of short &#8220;look what I just wrote&#8221; pieces.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey guys (again)&#8211; I noticed a review of Lydia Davis work in the summer 2014 edition of The Atlantic &#8212; she writes short pieces &#8212; mostly fiction, but sometimes &#8220;prose essays&#8221;. \u00a0I googled her and found this quote from an interview <em><em>The Believer<\/em><\/em> did with her:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lydia Davis:<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Walser was described by one critic (rather diminishingly, I think) as a \u201cfeuilletonist.\u201d He sometimes referred to his work simply as \u201cshort prose pieces&#8221;.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2014\/03\/17\/long-story-short\" target=\"_blank\">more Lydia Davis<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/barbaraboyden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/feuilleton.jpg\" alt=\"feuilleton\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many of the things I write are short notes to anyone and everyone. It took me years to find they have their own bona fide category of writings &#8212; Feuilletons.<\/p>\n<p>I share these feuilletons and other thoughts, with <em>Malt \u2018n Murder<\/em>, my writing group of four.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Hey guys, I think this is what I&#8217;m doing. \u00a0I found it in the editor&#8217;s note in the American Scholar, a publication that&#8217;s full of short &#8220;look what I just wrote&#8221; pieces.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey guys (again)&#8211; I noticed a review of Lydia Davis work in the summer 2014 edition of The Atlantic &#8212; she writes short pieces &#8212; mostly fiction, but sometimes &#8220;prose essays&#8221;. \u00a0I googled her and found this quote from an interview <em><em>The Believer<\/em><\/em> did with her:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lydia Davis:<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Walser was described by one critic (rather diminishingly, I think) as a \u201cfeuilletonist.\u201d He sometimes referred to his work simply as \u201cshort prose pieces&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2014\/03\/17\/long-story-short\" target=\"_blank\">more Lydia Davis<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr\/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/barbaraboyden.com\/?p=173\"> Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraboyden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraboyden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraboyden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraboyden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraboyden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraboyden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraboyden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraboyden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraboyden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraboyden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}