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Read if you like: The Franny bits in “Franny & Zooey”; the great Slits song “Typical Girls.”

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2023

Her daughter Ariane, from her first marriage to singer Frank Forster, became better known as Ari Up, the singer with punk band The Slits.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2023

The bar is covered with stickers of bands — the Slits, Sonic Youth — and Fender.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2023

In the late ’70s, she was a London-based music journalist who rolled so deep with the punks she wrote about — the Slits, the Raincoats — that her critical distance could be measured in microns.

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2021

Then, she took me to the folk section and told me about girl bands like the Slits.

From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky