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Is Harry Potter Literary Fiction?

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Mary Kay and Louise talk about important literary things like, is Harry Potter literary fiction? What’s going on in the literary world right now? And, what are you reading?

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Books and Texts Discussed:

“Without Women The Novel Would Die” by Johanna Thomas-Corr.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

“It’s Time to Fall Back in Love With Zora Neale Hurston” by Jennifer Baker

Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston

Of Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston

Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston (featuring the short story/forward “Searching for Zora” by Alice Walker)

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Daniel Mallory Ortberg

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Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

“You Can’t Be Serious about Harry Potter!”

Peter Darling by Austin Chant

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Little: A Novel by Edward Carey

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