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

December 15, 2016

Lit List: Thursday December 15, 2016

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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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literary news, literary fiction, literary commentary, 2016, muntazer al-zaidi, george w bush, poetry, kaveh akbar, valeria luiselli, phoebe robinson, safiya sinclair
December 12, 2016

Lit List: Monday December 12, 2016

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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 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 14, 2016

Lit List: Monday November 14, 2016

November 14, 2016/ Prune Perromat
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
November 10, 2016

Lit List: Thursday November 10, 2016

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Lit List: Thursday November 10, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Why we don't need any more heroes, but we do need poetry, plus reflections from Jelani Cobb and Kate Zambreno...

 

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literary news, literary fiction, gary younge, gun violence, jelani cobb, barack obama, 2016 presidential election, festival albertine, kate zambreno, heroines, comic books, literary comics, colson whitehead, the underground railroad, poetry
November 09, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday November 9, 2016

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Lit List: Wednesday November 9, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s haunting pre-election interview, poetry to cope, and Election Day reactions...

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literary news, literary fiction, 2016 presidential election, ta-nehisi coates, interview, poetry, langston hughes, david remnick, atlantis books, greece
November 08, 2016

Lit List: Tuesday November 8, 2016

November 08, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Tuesday November 8, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Salvador Dalí's cookbook, Adam shatz reviews Moonlight, why Fannie Lou Hamer was sick and tired, and why poetry is worth bothering with...

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literary news, literary fiction, salvador dali, cookbook, colin kaepernick, fannie lou hamer, f.c. brown cloud, poetry, barry jenkins, moonlight, teju cole
November 04, 2016

Lit List: Friday November 4, 2016

November 04, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Friday November 4, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Cave Canem turns 20, reading James Baldwin in 1963 and now, and we finally get a glimpse of Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events...

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literary news, literary fiction, stephen dixon, santa muerte, lemony snicket, a series of unfortunate events, young adult fiction, trump, cave canem, poetry, Karan Mahajan, india, obama, james baldwin
October 31, 2016

Lit List: Monday October 31, 2016

October 31, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Monday October 31, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Literary Halloween cartoons, new contemporary poetry and Nell Zink discusses Nicotine...

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October 31, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, halloween, cartoons, noir, fuminori nakamura, poetry, nell zink, adrienne celt, huizache, censorship, sayed elsisi
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