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

October 12, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday October 12, 2016

October 12, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Wednesday October 12, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Nobel Prize speculations; navigating singledom in Emily Witt's Future Sex; and Rebecca Solnit's feminist re-imagining of New York City.

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jonathan safran foer, here i am, everything is illuminated, elena ferrante, frantumaglia
October 09, 2016

Lit List: Friday October 7, 2016

October 09, 2016/ Prune Perromat
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

October 05, 2016/ Prune Perromat
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
October 03, 2016

Lit List: Monday October 3, 2016

October 03, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Monday October 3, 2016

Today on the Lit List: The injustice of banning books in schools and prisons, why we were better off not knowing Elena Ferrante's real name, and fiction by Brit Bennett. 

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October 03, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
October 03, 2016

Lit List: Friday September 30, 2016

October 03, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Friday September 30, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Why there are no novels about global warming, René Magritte's English-language writing debut, and a defense of the ellipsis...

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October 03, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
monica sok, poetry, history books, reading, literary news, literature, books, ellipses, white writers, alexandra kleeman, intimations, the underground railroad, colson whitehead, global warming, amitav ghosh, british empire, charles baudelaire, nikki giovanni, the arab of the future, middle east, riad sattouf, graphic novel
September 29, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday September 28, 2016

September 29, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Wednesday September 28, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Virginia Woolf on the solitary daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; the British postal service honors Agatha Christie; and an interview with a Vogue icon.

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September 29, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
clarice lispector, judaism, kafka, vijay seshadri, pulitzer, books, reading, literary news, literature, sara coleridge, virginia woolf, samuel taylor coleridge, tana french, crime fiction, leiomy maldonado, book covers, javier marias, thus bad begins, agatha christie
September 27, 2016

Lit List: Monday September 26, 2016

September 27, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Monday September 26, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Why it's so damn fun to swear, how much Truman Capote's ashes are worth, and "the gayest book in Iceland."

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September 27, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
juan gabriel vasquez, cartoons, books, reading, literary fiction, literary news, literature, college, student loans, marlon james, moonstone, sjon, arundhati roy, truman capote, capote, ashes
September 23, 2016

Lit List: Friday September 23, 2016

September 23, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Friday September 23, 2016

Today on the Lit List: A review of Alexandra Kleeman's short fiction, why there should be less school, and a new Afro-feminist coloring book.

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September 23, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
coloring books, afro-feminist, kurdish literature, alexandra kleeman, you too can have a body like mine, national museum of african american history, nicholson baker, books, reading, literary news, syria, arab spring, damascus, anne carsn, anne carson, poetry, garcia lorca, spain, latin america
September 21, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday September 21, 2016

September 21, 2016/ Prune Perromat
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 21, 2016

Lit List: Monday September 19, 2016

September 21, 2016/ Prune Perromat
Lit List: Monday September 19, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Philip K. Dick's neuroses, a haunted childhood in Indonesia, and madcap new fiction by Carl Hiaasen.

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