Lit List: Tuesday August 23, 2016

Lit List: Tuesday August 23, 2016

 Today on the Lit List: Is Kanye West's McDonald’s poem a parable of class struggle; an excerpt from Patti Smith's M Train; authenticity and Percival Everett’s Erasure; Victorian London’s dirty book trade; and Curtis Sittenfeld on being reviewed.

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Lit List: Weekend of Friday August 5, 2016

Lit List: Weekend of Friday August 5, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Teju Cole talks and Taiye Selasi on photography, being pigeonholed, and "traveling while black"; a new Bridget Jones diary to be published in October; the role of women's hairstyles in World War II; and the New York Times reviews Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad.

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