{"id":5408,"date":"2013-06-07T10:06:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T14:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=5408"},"modified":"2013-06-07T10:06:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T14:06:27","slug":"this-years-first-readings-book-has-been-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/this-years-first-readings-book-has-been-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"This Year&#8217;s First Readings Book Has Been Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s First Readings book is\u00a0<em>Beautiful Souls\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0Eyal Press. Here are a few things of note about\u00a0<em>Beautiful Souls<\/em>\u00a0and the First Readings program.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The library has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/firstreadings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">created a website<\/a>\u00a0as a part of the First Readings Program.<\/li>\n<li><em>Beautiful Souls <\/em>explores situations where ordinary people have gone out their way to resist authority in order to do the right thing.<\/li>\n<li>Eyal Press, author of<em>\u00a0Beautiful Souls<\/em>, is a Brown Alum.<\/li>\n<li>Eyal Press will visit the campus in the fall to speak to the first-year students.<\/li>\n<li>This is the First Readings program\u2019s seventh year.<\/li>\n<li>The First Readings program provides first-year and transfer students with a common reading experience that introduces them to the pleasures and rigors of academic life at Brown University.<\/li>\n<li>First Readings is sponsored by the Dean of the College and Brown Alumni Association.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure to check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/FirstReadings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@firstreadings<\/a>\u00a0twitter feed for updates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about the author, the book, or the First Readings program\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/firstreadings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit the website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s First Readings book is\u00a0Beautiful Souls\u00a0by\u00a0Eyal Press. Here are a few things of note about\u00a0Beautiful Souls\u00a0and the First Readings program. The library has\u00a0created a website\u00a0as a part of the First Readings Program. Beautiful Souls explores situations where ordinary people have gone out their way to resist authority in order to do the right thing. <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/this-years-first-readings-book-has-been-announced\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  This Year&#8217;s First Readings Book Has Been Announced<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}