{"id":600,"date":"2026-05-15T09:37:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T13:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/?page_id=600"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:04:37","slug":"beyond-the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/current-book\/beyond-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"More to Explore"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><\/ul>\n<h3><em>Listen<\/em><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tenpercent.com\/tph\/podcast-episode\/ross-gay\">Delight and Joy Are Survival Mechanisms and Acts of Resistance<\/a><span>,<\/span><em> Ten Percent Happier <\/em><span>(09\/2023)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tsl.news\/poet-and-essayist-ross-gay-on-why-you-dont-need-to-be-an-optimist-to-incite-joy\/\">Poet and essayist Ross Gay on why you don\u2019t need to be an optimist to incite joy<\/a><span>, <\/span><em>Claremont McKenna\u2019s The Student Life<\/em><span> (09\/2023)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowapublicradio.org\/podcast\/talk-of-iowa\/2023-09-20\/stitches-and-everyday-joy\">Stitches and everyday joy<\/a> , Iowa Public Radio (09\/2023)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/culture\/shows\/life-examined\/ross-gay-chloe-honum-grief-death-loss-parent-poetry\/\">The language of grief, with writers Ross Gay and Chloe Honum<\/a>, KCRW Life Examined (09\/2023)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/02\/21\/1158481154\/ross-gay-on-inciting-joy-while-dining-with-sorrow\">Ross Gay on inciting joy while dining with sorrow<\/a>,<em> NPR<\/em> (02\/2023)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneyoufeed.net\/how-to-incite-joy\/\">How to Incite Joy with Ross Gay<\/a><span>, <\/span><em>The One You Feed<\/em><span> podcast (04\/2023)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firesidepod.org\/episodes\/gay\">Joy, with Ross Gay<\/a><span>, <\/span><em>Fireside<\/em><span> podcast (04\/2023)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/indianapublicmedia.org\/innerstates\/joy-and-the-ends-of-the-earth.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ross Gay on Inciting Joy<\/a><span> <\/span><em>Inner States<\/em><span> (10\/2022)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><em>Read<\/em><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/orionmagazine.org\/article\/ross-gay-orion-questionnaire\/\">Ross Gay Answers the Orion Questionnaire<\/a><span>, <\/span><em>Orion Magazine<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen Delight and Joy Are Survival Mechanisms and Acts of Resistance, Ten Percent Happier (09\/2023) Poet and essayist Ross Gay on why you don\u2019t need to be an optimist to incite joy, Claremont McKenna\u2019s The Student Life (09\/2023) Stitches and everyday joy , Iowa Public Radio (09\/2023) The language of grief, with writers Ross Gay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3324,"featured_media":0,"parent":595,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/600\/revisions\/711"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/common-read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}