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Why you should be reading Nancy Lemann’s nonfiction, too.

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Why you should be reading Nancy Lemann’s nonfiction, too.
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This April, a jewel of the American South is experiencing an overdue literary renaissance. Nancy Lemann, bard of New Orleans and stylist nonpareil, has gotten a glow-up—and in some corners, there’s already been much rejoicing.
In this week’s New Yorker, for instance, Brandy Jensen praised Lemann’s singular voice. In novels like Lives of the Saints and The Oyster Diaries—both recently reissued from NYRB—the author has proven “capable of crystalline insights into the miscre

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