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

November 14, 2016

Lit List: Monday November 14, 2016

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Lit List: Monday November 14, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Sheila Heti interviews Elena Ferrante, a new biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, and fiction for anger...

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November 14, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, trump, poetry, fiction, sheila heti, elena ferrante, gabriel garcia marquez, eleanor roosevelt, ahmed naji, jonathan franzen
October 27, 2016

Lit List: Thursday October 27, 2016

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Lit List: Thursday October 27, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Etgar Keret's vision of life under Trump, a book about cannibalism, and the most American fear of all...

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October 27, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary fiction, literary news, radical history, syllabus, lara pawson, multiple choice, alejandro zambra, poetry, fiction, satire, the sellout, paul beatty, while the nightjar sleeps, jk rowling, beach boys, etgar keret, trump, halloween
October 26, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday October 26, 2016

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Lit List: Wednesday October 26, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Paul Beatty wins the Man Booker Prize, Zelda Fitzgerald returns to the spotlight, and a new memoir from Marina Abramovic...

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October 26, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, man booker prize, paul beatty, the sellout, fiction, racial politics, frantumaglia, rachel nevins, marina abramovic, memoir, john keats, poetry, zelda fitzgerald, scarlett johansson, jennifer lawrence, marcel proust, aziz nesin, library of babel, jorge luis borges, islam, religion
October 25, 2016

Lit List: Tuesday October 25, 2016

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Lit List: Tuesday October 25, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Shakespeare's co-author, Lil Wayne's prison diary, a bummer of a wedding, and Arundhati Roy on police brutality...

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shakespeare, naaz rashid, literary news, literary fiction, veiled threats, fiction, dracula, carmilla, ten years of marriage, su qing, lil wayne, this way madness lies, austin, texas, science fiction, ha jin, the boat rocker
October 09, 2016

Lit List: Friday October 7, 2016

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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 05, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday October 5, 2016

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Lit List: Wednesday October 5, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Why British people always talk about the weather, the changing landscape of the Bronx, and why we'll be reading Marx for many years to come.

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October 05, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
junot diaz, hollywood, news, fiction, literary fiction, literary news, national book award, literary prizes, gloria naylor, the women of brewster place, rabih alamedddine, bronx, britain, british, the weatehr, marx, karl marx, nell zink, nicotine, caravaggio, artemisia gentileschi
September 21, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday September 21, 2016

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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 10, 2016

Lit List: Friday September 9, 2016

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Lit List: Friday September 9, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Faked deaths, the survival of public libraries, and the rebirth of an anthology of essays by disgruntled wives.

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September 10, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
science, literary fiction, literature, literary news, books, reading, writing, fiction, ann m martin, the babysitters club, YA fiction, young adult fiction, short stories, caravaggio, alvaro enrigue, saskya jain, pew report, libraries, the bitch is back, uncertain women, inaam kachachi, tashaari, prix de la litterature arabe, fraud
September 07, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday September 7, 2016

September 07, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Wednesday September 7, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Bored white girls, alternatives to monogamy, classical Arabic love poetry, and the crabs that appeared on the New York subway.

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September 07, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
bored white girls, gay voices, erotic, arab poets, mauro javier cardenas, subway, crabs on the subway, donald trump, atlantic city, terrorism, books, reading, literary news, fiction, writers, poetry
August 09, 2016

Lit List: Tuesday August 9, 2016

August 09, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Tuesday August 9, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Literature's fascination with homelessness; the legacy of Nat Turner; and is fiction and addiction?

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August 09, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
shakespeare festival, playwrights, literary new, literary news, literary fiction, literature, nat turner, william styron, fiction, daniel saldana paris, poetry, poets, cynthia manick, chialun chang, amy krouse rosenthal, children's books
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