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RT @patriciatweeter Juan Williams on Ghetto Lit - Very interesting as i guess im behind in the times and had no idea! http://bit.ly/4mU1AB 21 days ago |
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No, Juan Williams, PUSH by Sapphire - black lesbian poet, author & teacher - is NOT the same as "gangsta lit", you bufoon http://is.gd/4UAGt 22 days ago |
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Juan Williams Column in WSJ on Ghetto Lit - Very interesting as i guess im behind in the times and had no idea! http://bit.ly/4mU1AB 23 days ago |
WSJ on 'Ghetto Lit'
the Literary Saloon —
... - WSJ on 'Ghetto Lit' What a surprise: the Wall Street Journal (well, Juan Williams, writing there) finds there's: 'Precious' Little of Value in Ghetto Lit . This is apparently: "the fastest-growing segment of African-American letters, a genre called "ghetto lit" or "gangster lit."" (This claim seems anecdotal rather than factual; I'd love to see the numbers (and definitions ...).) Anyway, Williams is no fan: Also increasingly absent are textured stories about rising above the realities of poverty, alienation and racism. Those redemptive works, with their calls for ...
Friday Morning LitLinks
Author Scoop —
... of being a living legend. (Guardian Books Blog)
Erica Marcus talks to Jonathan Safran Foer about his latest book (non-fiction this time), Eating Animals. (Newsday)
Could Glenn Beck become the Oprah for thriller writers? (NYTimes)
Publishers Weekly gets taken to the woodshed by Dave Itzkoff for choosing only male-penned books for its annual top 10 list. (NYTimes)
Juan Williams finds little value in Ghetto Lit. (Wall Street Journal)
New National Literature Award established in ...
ampere’s and
3:AM Magazine —
... by Anger, Ballardian interview Savoy Books‘ Michael Butterworth
& From Metropolis to Blade Runner: architecture that stole the show
& N Frank Daniels‘ top 11 films about writing (including 2 personal favourites, Barton Fink & Henry Fool)
& HTMLGIANT on Shane Jones‘ The Failure Six
& Ghetto Lit
& Paste’s 20 best books of the decade ...
Transnational Armenian literature ?
the Literary Saloon —
... - WSJ on 'Ghetto Lit' What a surprise: the Wall Street Journal (well, Juan Williams, writing there) finds there's: 'Precious' Little of Value in Ghetto Lit . This is apparently: "the fastest-growing segment of African-American letters, a genre called "ghetto lit" or "gangster lit."" (This claim seems anecdotal rather than factual; I'd love to see the numbers (and definitions ...).) Anyway, Williams is no fan: Also increasingly absent are textured stories about rising above the realities of poverty, alienation and racism. Those redemptive works, with their calls for ...
Autumn Leaves and Sunday Smatterings
Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind —
... Could someone alert Juan Williams that a novel that went to auction for half a million dollars and was bought - then published - by Knopf in 1996 doesn't actually qualify as "ghetto lit"? Which also explains why his essay slamming this genre is fundamentally flawed. ...
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EarlyWord: The Publisher | Librarian Connection —
... ) has appeared on the NYT list. Two of Urban Book’s titles appear on LJ’s list. An even surer sign that street lit is getting notice from main street; the Wall Street Journal’s Op/Ed page recently railed against the genre ( ‘Precious’ Little of Value in Ghetto Lit ) and mentioned that, horrors, libraries are stocking the genre; “Even libraries now stock gangster-lit novels, because they bring new readers in the door.” Barbara Genco, Collection Management Editor for Library Journal , and her Pratt LS students put together a useful guide to street lit resources for the ...
