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"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!" Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

October 21, 2016

Lit List: Thursday October 20, 2016

October 21, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Thursday October 20, 2016

Today on the Lit List: An oral history of death, the real meaning of "locker room banter" and "nasty," and young Afro-Modernists in Nigeria.

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October 21, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
anita raj, the withered cherry tree, sa'ede buang, death row, nasty, new york bars, afro-modernism, eileen myles, larissa pham, fantasian, writing, novels, books, literary fiction, literary news
October 14, 2016

Lit List: Friday October 14, 2016

October 14, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Friday October 14, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize for Literature, the ethics of rewriting Shakespeare, and the politics of translating Albert Camus.

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October 14, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary fiction, literary news, literature, books, nobel prize, bob dylan, new york city, sarah gerard, binary star, adam gopnik, shakespeare, matias celedon, the subsidiary, booker prize, anuradha roy, sleeping on jupiter
October 13, 2016

Lit List: Thursday October 13, 2016

October 13, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Thursday October 13, 2016

Today on the Lit List: A legendary winged horse, but not the one you think; Rick Moody on the presidential election; and new fiction from Jonathan Lethem.

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October 13, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, books, reaidng, reading, writers, margaret atwood, the tempest, the mothers, brit bennett, johnny cash, election diary, rick moody, ghost stories, ghostland, colin dickey, deadpool, marvel, madaya mom, muhammad el-hajj, brooklym, jonathan lethem
October 09, 2016

Lit List: Friday October 7, 2016

October 09, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Friday October 7, 2016

How the Marquis de Sade came from the Bastille Prison to the Western Canon; the first great post-Brexit novel; and why Ursula K. Le Guin is tired of yelling into the void.

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October 09, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
anuk arudpragasam, sri lankan civil war, the story of a brief marriage, hitler, four reincarnations, max ritvo, ursula le guin, fiction, reading, writing, books, 120 days of sodom, natashia deon, brexit, mohsin hamid, the reluctant fundamentalist, alone in berlin, hans fallada, literary news
October 03, 2016

Lit List: Friday September 30, 2016

October 03, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Friday September 30, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Why there are no novels about global warming, René Magritte's English-language writing debut, and a defense of the ellipsis...

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October 03, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
monica sok, poetry, history books, reading, literary news, literature, books, ellipses, white writers, alexandra kleeman, intimations, the underground railroad, colson whitehead, global warming, amitav ghosh, british empire, charles baudelaire, nikki giovanni, the arab of the future, middle east, riad sattouf, graphic novel
September 29, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday September 28, 2016

September 29, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Wednesday September 28, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Virginia Woolf on the solitary daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; the British postal service honors Agatha Christie; and an interview with a Vogue icon.

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September 29, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
clarice lispector, judaism, kafka, vijay seshadri, pulitzer, books, reading, literary news, literature, sara coleridge, virginia woolf, samuel taylor coleridge, tana french, crime fiction, leiomy maldonado, book covers, javier marias, thus bad begins, agatha christie
September 27, 2016

Lit List: Monday September 26, 2016

September 27, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Monday September 26, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Why it's so damn fun to swear, how much Truman Capote's ashes are worth, and "the gayest book in Iceland."

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September 27, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
juan gabriel vasquez, cartoons, books, reading, literary fiction, literary news, literature, college, student loans, marlon james, moonstone, sjon, arundhati roy, truman capote, capote, ashes
September 23, 2016

Lit List: Friday September 23, 2016

September 23, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Friday September 23, 2016

Today on the Lit List: A review of Alexandra Kleeman's short fiction, why there should be less school, and a new Afro-feminist coloring book.

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September 23, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
coloring books, afro-feminist, kurdish literature, alexandra kleeman, you too can have a body like mine, national museum of african american history, nicholson baker, books, reading, literary news, syria, arab spring, damascus, anne carsn, anne carson, poetry, garcia lorca, spain, latin america
September 21, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday September 21, 2016

September 21, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Wednesday September 21, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Prison abolition, H.G. Wells' 150th birthday, and a new look at Ancient Egypt. 

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September 21, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
x-men, aids, superhero, american flag, prisons, syria, turkey, aleppo, egypt, ancient egypt, mars, hg wells, the war of the worlds, misuzu kaneko, kyle dargan, poems, literature, literary news, books, reading, fiction
September 19, 2016

Lit List: Weekend of Friday September 16, 2016

September 19, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Weekend of Friday September 16, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Why cats might destroy the world, a novelist reviews fashion week, and fiction by Silvina Ocampo.

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September 19, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
sarandi street, albert murray, henry louis gates, mihret, poetry, hiwot adilow, ananda devi, mauritian literature, killer cats, blood at the root, lynching, willy loman, elizabeth powell, rumaan alam, maria cornejo, nyfw, new york fashion week, books, reading, literary news, literature, novels
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