Lit List: Thursday October 20, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: An oral history of death, the real meaning of "locker room banter" and "nasty," and young Afro-Modernists in Nigeria.
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Lit List: Weekend of Friday September 16, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: Why cats might destroy the world, a novelist reviews fashion week, and fiction by Silvina Ocampo.
Read MoreLit List: Monday August 29, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: What our guilty TV pleasures can teach us about crafting narrative; Emily Brontë may have had Asperger syndrome; a condensed version of Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri's 14th-century compendium on the classical Islamic world; and the Beijing Book Fair.
Read MoreLit List: Wednesday August 24, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: Tracy K. Smith on God, poetry, and parenting in New York City; Portugal's first modernist novelist makes it to America; and recurring characters in Edward P. Jones' short stories.
Read MoreLit List: Wednesday August 17, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: A children's book by Gertrude Stein; the dangers of nostalgia, from ancient Greece to Ann Coulter; the New Realists; a biography of the worst opera singer of all time; and Samuel Beckett's SAT questions.
Read MoreLit List: Tuesday August 2, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: Celebrating James Baldwin's birthday; Doubleday pulls a 'Beyoncé' by unexpectedly releasing Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad ahead of schedule and without warning; and Simon & Schuster to publish local titles in India next year.
Read MoreLit List: Weekend of Friday July 29, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: Madeleine Dubus writes about her father and acclaimed short-story writer Andre Dubus; a look at politics and fiction; and why women crime writers aren't a fad.
Read MoreLit List: Wednesday July 13, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: Dave Eggers provides a sneak peek at his new novel; a writer reflects on his time spent in Istanbul; a new look at the latest Superman comic; and a crowdfunded novel wins a major award.
Read MoreLit List: Monday July 11, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: Celebrating the lives of E.B. White and Marcel Proust; a deeper look at the Cain Prize; new Mexican literary talent and more.
Read MoreLit List: Wednesday June 29, 2016
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Today on the Lit List: A new book about music legend David Bowie; a list of revolutionary novels (just in time for the 4th of July); and Canada's Prime Minister to become a comic book character.
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