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The Londonist Literary List

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. You have no idea how pleased we are this week. There is so much going on! We don’t feel alone in the world anymore! London …

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The Londonist Literary List

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. The Londonist Literary List has only one Christmas wish, and that is for all of its readers to buy books as gifts this holiday season, …

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London Review Of Breakfasts

We have to say thank you to Londonist reader Martha who pointed us in the direction of London Review of Breakfasts.com a few weeks ago. Since then we’ve been monitoring this brekkie blog carefully and it’s very good indeed. In fact it could be said …

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The Londonist Literary List

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Thank you thank you thank you, Smoke, for being the first literary journal to actually take us up on our offer for free publicity!! Smoke’s …

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Bad Sex Book Prize: Less of a Sauce, More of a Glaze

Last night, the Literary Review presented the award which “draws attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel”. This year there was stiff competition from some very big players, but at the end of the …

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The Londonist Literary List

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Hello? Publishing World? Did you go on a collective vacation this week? Did all of your printers go on strike at the same time? Did …

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The Londonist Literary List

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Yes, there is a new novel out by Nadine Gordimer this week (along with a serious slew of others). But early reports are leading us …

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Mid Week Music News

With Halloween traditionally a time for some serious gig going spectaculars, this year’s a little bit of a damp squib, what with Marilyn Manson retiring from creeping folks out and concentrating on his new make up range and his Alma Mater, Alice Cooper, not yet …

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Diane Arbus at the V&A

When photographer Diane Arbus visited London in 1970, she wrote in a letter, “Nobody seems miserable, drunk, crippled, mad, or desperate. I finally found a few vulgar things in the suburbs, but nothing sordid yet.” We daresay that if she had just asked Londonist, we …

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The Londonist Literary List

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. This part of the world is doing quite well in literary circles these days, what with all of the praise heaped on the Booker Prize …

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Stuck On Me Exhibition

If you hadn’t realised already, Londonist likes its badges. And luckily there seems to have been a bit of a badge resurgence in the capital recently, with Wear it With Pride catering for all our badge purchasing needs, and the British Museum’s brilliant little badge …