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

December 16, 2016

Lit List: Friday December 16, 2016

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Lit List: Friday December 16, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Joan Didion's wayward daughters, living in David Foster Wallace's mind, and a reading list for understanding the media in 2016...

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December 16, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary commentary, literary fiction, david foster wallace, the light of the world, kimberley drew, elizabeth alexander, joan didion, nostalgia, 2016 presidential election, fake news, translation, radwa ashour, i saw the date palms
December 15, 2016

Lit List: Thursday December 15, 2016

December 15, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Thursday December 15, 2016

Today on the Lit List: life after fighting in the FARC, the thrown shoe heard 'round the world, and the problem with unsolicited hair-touching.

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December 15, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, literary commentary, 2016, muntazer al-zaidi, george w bush, poetry, kaveh akbar, valeria luiselli, phoebe robinson, safiya sinclair
December 14, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday December 14, 2016

December 14, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Wednesday December 14, 2016

Today on the Lit List: B.J. Novak writes another book with no picture, ER Braithwaite passes away at 104, and four writers on the literary women who inspire them the most...

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December 14, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary commentary, literary fiction, ER Braithwaite, to sir with love, roxane gay, zora neale hurston, the alphabet book with no pictures, b.j. novak, the book with no pictures, shirley jackson, laurie sheck, dostoyevsky, the idiot, a woman looking at men looking at women, siri hustvedt, the new yorker, best of, 2016
December 12, 2016

Lit List: Monday December 12, 2016

December 12, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Monday December 12, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Bob Dylan honored at Nobel Prize banquet, Zadie Smith on optimism and despair, and Grace Paley's activist and literary legacy...

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December 12, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, bob dylan, nobel prize, patti smith, zadie smith, book culture, letters, epistolary collection, poems, poetry, the new yorker, grace paley, nonfiction
December 09, 2016

Lit List: Friday December 9, 2016

December 09, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Friday December 9, 2016

Jacqueline Woodson's year of reading, Croatia becomes the first "free reading zone," and portraits of the Black Panther Party...

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December 09, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, charlotte wood, jacqueline woodson, 2016, croatia, they are trying to break your heart, David Savill, black panther party, photography, bryan shih, yohuru williams, banned books
December 07, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday December 7, 2016

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

Today on the Lit List: Cobble Hill's BookCourt shuts its doors, Gabriel García Márquez and Fidel Castro's literary friendship, and the best book jackets of 2016...

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December 07, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, bookcourt, new york city, brooklyn, cobble hill, independent bookstore, fidel castro, gabriel garcia marquez, screenplay, best of, robots, artificial intelligence, book cover
December 06, 2016

Lit List: Tuesday December 6, 2016

December 06, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Tuesday December 6, 2016

Today on the Lit List: George Orwell doesn't have all the answers, the philosophers who predicted a new rise of fascism, and fiction by Caren Beilin...

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December 06, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, donald trump, emily doe, brock turner, caren beilin, post-truth, george orwell, shakespeare, adam pendleton, amiri barak, malcolm x
December 05, 2016

Lit List: Monday December 5, 2016

December 05, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Monday December 5, 2016

 

Today on the Lit List: why poetry is the hardest literary form, To Kill A Mockingbird banned from Virginia schools, and a comic about civilization...

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December 05, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, joseph o'neill, poetry, through the night, stig saeterbakken, to kill a mockingbird, banned books, harper lee, am i alone here?, peter orner, book review, comic, edward mcclelland, christmas, gerry bowler
December 02, 2016

Lit List: Friday December 2, 2016

December 02, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Friday December 2, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Writers defend the First Amendment, first literary loves, and an essay on life in airplane mode...

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December 02, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, ahmed naji, pen america, center for fiction, first novel prize, catapult, whereas statements, poetry, matthew zapruder, last girl before freeway, joan rivers
November 30, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday November 30, 2016

November 30, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Wednesday November 30, 2016

 

Today on the Lit List: the mysterious charm of a centuries-old manuscript, healing divisions with empathy, and the newly published essays by Kathleen Collins...

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November 30, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, voynich manuscript, 2016 presidential election, robert bresson, fela kuti, john hughes, playlist, book list, kathleen collins, whatever happened to interracial love?, chris smith, the daily show, jon stewart
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