Lit List: Wednesday September 14, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday September 14, 2016

 Today on the Lit List: A history of David Foster Wallace’s "The Pale King," editing Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje, and the illustrator that helped Charles Darwin identify bird specimens.

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Lit List: Wednesday August 10, 2016

Lit List: Wednesday August 10, 2016

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Vonnegut while deployed in Iraq; Margaret Atwood scopes out Comic-Con; and an end to a long-running dispute over an unpublished Kafka manuscript.

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Lit List: Thursday July 21, 2016

Lit List: Thursday July 21, 2016

Today on the Lit Lis: Artists read from Oscar Wilde’s “De Profundis,” inside the prison in which he wrote it; a new film adaptation of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar; a conversation with Margaret Atwood, and more.

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Lit List: Tuesday June 21, 2016

Lit List: Tuesday June 21, 2016

Today on the Lit List: Iconic French feminist writer Benoîte Groult has died; NPR reviews Vinegar Girl; a Fox News anchor lands a deal for an Eisenhower book; and The Guardian asks, why are there so many new publishing imprints?

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Lit List: Thursday June 16, 2016

Lit List: Thursday June 16, 2016

Today on the Lit List: An old interview with James Joyce in honor of Bloomsday; Virgina Woolf's lonely thoughts revealed in her diary; and Gregory Maguire’s Wicked to become a movie.

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