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

November 30, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday November 30, 2016

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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
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 28, 2016

Lit List: Monday November 28, 2016

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Lit List: Monday November 28, 2016

Today on the Lit List: An interview with prize-winning Syrian writer Noor Hariri, a new biography of Toussaint Louverture, and literature’s glamorization of madness…

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literary news, literary fiction, john lewis, march, noor hariri, a sea of words, reasons and names, jane eyre, charlotte bronte, toussaint louverture, reversal of the muse
November 23, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday November 23, 2016

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Lit List: Wednesday November 23, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Must-read books by indigenous authors, an interview with Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and female power at the Costa Book Awards...

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November 23, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, william trevor, nobel prize, ngugi wa thiong'o, indigenous authors, thanksgiving, jeu de paume, paris, costa book awards, trevor noah, born a crime
November 21, 2016

Lit List: Monday November 21, 2016

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Lit List: Monday November 21, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Irish novelist and short story writer William Trevor passes away at 88, Michael Chabon's Moonglow takes on WWII, and the boundaries of "longform" journalism...

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November 21, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary commentary, literary fiction, william trevor, moonglow, michael chabon, 2016 presidential election, love and ruin, longform, anais nin, auletris: erotica, don't let my baby do rodeo, borish fishman, napoleon bonaparte
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 16, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday November 16, 2016

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Lit List: Wednesday November 16, 2016

Today on the Lit List: 2016 National Book Awards, what Harry Potter can teach us about good and evil, and a Greenwich Village bookstore stays put...

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November 16, 2016/ Prune Perromat/
literary news, literary fiction, national book award, larry wilmore, man booker prize, paul beatty, the sellout, harry potter, the brown bookshelf, moonlight, scarlet west
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 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
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