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

November 29, 2016

Lit List: Tuesday November 29, 2016

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Lit List: Tuesday November 29, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Queer futures, why we need cosmopolitan patriotism, and a million-dollar kerfuffle over Jane Austen...

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November 29, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, vladimir putin, all the kremlin's men, blaise cendrar, jane austen, maggie nelson, hanya yanagihara, trump, the trump card, writing to save a life, john edgar wideman, xenophobia, cosmopolitanism, patriotism
November 18, 2016

Lit List: Friday November 18, 2016

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Lit List: Friday November 18, 2016

Today on the Lit List: National Book Awards celebrate black authors, a profile of female antihero Chris Kraus and bad sex writing...

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national book awards, literary news, literary fiction, chris kraus, i love dick, laila lalami, the moor's account, rabih alameddine, an unnecessary woman, sex writing, wei tchou, trump, zadie smith, blood of the dawn, claudia salazar jimenez
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
November 11, 2016

Lit List: Friday November 11, 2016

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Lit List: Friday November 11, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Paying tribute to Leonard Cohen, art after Trump, and a lengthy biography of Franz Kafka...

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November 11, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, leonard cohen, songwriting, art, trump, 2016 presidential election, margaret atwood, biography, franz kafka, night of the animals, bill broun, belle boggs, the art of waiting
November 07, 2016

Lit List: Monday November 7, 2016

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Lit List: Monday November 7, 2016

Today on the Lit List: LSP's full coverage of the Festival Albertine, election-eve links, and a Parthenon of banned books...

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November 07, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, festival albertine, jelani cobb, kelly sue deconnick, trump, clinton, 2016 presidential election, roxane gay, madame bovary, gustave flaubert, interview, banned books, little free library
November 04, 2016

Lit List: Friday November 4, 2016

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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
November 02, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday November 2, 2016

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Lit List: Wednesday November 2, 2016

Today on the Lit List: The third annual Festival Albertine, Rebecca Solnit invites Trump to NYC, and the paradoxical nature of bibliotherapy...

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November 02, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, festival albertine, rebecca solnit, trump, new york city, islandia, bibliotherapy, pull me under, james mcwilliams, kelly luce, nostalgia, francesca mari, thomas de quincey, science fiction, fantasy
October 27, 2016

Lit List: Thursday October 27, 2016

October 27, 2016/ Prune Perromat
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 21, 2016

Lit List: Friday October 21, 2016

October 21, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Friday October 21, 2016

Today on the Lit List: #TrumpBookReport goes viral, what Barnes & Noble doesn't get about bookstores, and travel memoirs by black women writer.

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October 21, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, trump, donald trump, trump book report, barnes and noble, albert murray, travel memoir, nneka okona, balthus, jen george, sonya chung, the loved ones, oscar wilde, cold war, greg mitchell

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