While public libraries have been collecting street lit for some time, the New York Times just discovered the trend in October, wrote U Fiction Editor Wilda Williams in our In the Bookroom blog. Williams pointed out that at least "the reporter was smart enough to interview our own street lit columnist Vanessa Morris [pictured]...who defends the genre as a chronicle of the African Americans who survived the 1980s drug wars."rnThe Annoyed Librarian, LJ's newest blogger, had a more contrarian approach. "Let's take a look at these motivations for buying crappy books," she wrote, provoking debate about the age-old issue of "giving them what they want."
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