A talk show with writers
Your daily dose of must-read literary news and commentary.
Today on the Lit List: Black protest writing from W.E.B. DuBois to Kendrick Lamar; reading Kurt Vonnegut while deployed in Iraq; Margaret Atwood scopes out Comic-Con; and an end to a long-running dispute over an unpublished Kafka manuscript.
Read MoreToday on the Lit List: Teju Cole talks and Taiye Selasi on photography, being pigeonholed, and "traveling while black"; a new Bridget Jones diary to be published in October; the role of women's hairstyles in World War II; and the New York Times reviews Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad.
Read MoreToday on the Lit List: Celebrating Beatrix Potter's birthday; a lack of diversity on this year's Man Booker longlist; Proust and Twain on writing a novel; and a chapter from Man Booker finalist Madeleine Thien's novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing.
Read MoreToday on the Lit List: Roxane Gay and poet Yona Harvey to write a spin-off of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Black Panther comics; anticipating the Man Booker Prize 2016 winners; Viet Thanh Nguyen shares how he's changed after writing a novel and winning a Pulitzer Prize, and more.
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