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Reference and Information Services and Tools: Arts and Humanities Literature Reference Tools
Reference and Information Services and Tools: Readers' Advisory and Leisure Reading
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- ISBN 9781591588573
- Weight: 765g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 03 Dec 2010
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Offering more than 400 street-lit titles, this guide helps readers' advisors and other librarians to better understand the genre and collect and recommend titles ranging from romance and coming-of-age stories to action stories and erotica.
Street lit is also known to its enthusiastic readers as "urban fiction," "ghetto lit," "hip-hop lit," and "gangsta lit." No matter what it's called, it remains one of the most significant and increasingly popular forms of modern literature.
This text provides a much-needed resource guide to this vibrant genre. In this title, more than 400 entries appear in eleven chapters, each focusing on a different subgenre of street lit. The author has organized titles by popular subgenres and themes, such as prison life and urban erotica, to help librarians more easily identify read-alikes. Urban Grit: A Guide to Street Lit also contains practical tips on integrating these books into an existing collection or library program and meeting challenges that may arise in the process.
Megan Honig is an independent librarian and writer; former young adult materials specialist at the New York Public Library, New York, NY; and former editor of Young Adult Library Services (YALS).
