These Charming People, stories by Michael Arlen In the period just after World War One, …
Lauren Alwan
Lauren Alwan, Sharon Browning
Lauren Alwan’s fiction has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, the Southern Review, the Alaska Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, in the Bellevue Literary Review. She is the recipient of a First Pages Prize, the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, and.a citation of Notable in Best American Essays. Her essays have appeared in ZYZZYVA, Catapult, World Literature Today, The Rumpus, The Millions, Writer's Digest, and others. She is a prose editor at the museum of americana, an online literary review. Follow her on Twitter at @lauren_alwan and learn more at www.laurenalwan.com
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Here is our original review of “Car Trouble” in honor of our dear friend, Robert …
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The Fact in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fictional “The Great Gatsby”
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All Stories are Ghost Stories – Revisiting “Life Drawing” by Robin Black
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanNobody outside a marriage can understand it. Life Drawing, by Robin Black “Nobody outside a …
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Reading—and Watching—Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”
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3 Outstanding Titles From Alcove Chapbooks – Is Short The New Long?
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The Language of a Painter’s Vocabulary in “Pictures,” by David Hockney
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Brisk, witty, and always surprising. Expect the unexpected. In their Substack columns, these acclaimed authors …
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Find The Perfect Summer Reading! Cozy Up To Your Summer Reading Summer is a great …
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Chasing the Power to Save in “Telephone” by Percival Everett
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by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanFor this LitStack Rec, we’re revisiting James Tate Hill’s engaging and unique memoir, Blind Man’s …
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Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month with 7 Great Books
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanThese novels, story collections, and works of nonfiction by Asian American and Pacific Islander authors …
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A Poem Opens Between Two Languages in “O” by Zeina Hashem Beck
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanThis LitStack Rec celebrates April’s National Poetry Month and Arab American Heritage Month by recommending …
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Blurring Fiction And Actual Events In “The Hero Of This Book,” By Elizabeth McCracken
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by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanThe right song, at the right time, with the right person. The Essence of Daisy …
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Taste: My Life Through Food, a memoir “Cook. Smell. Taste. Eat. Drink. Share. Repeat as …
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Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin’s 2009 novel, recipient of the Costa Award, is an affecting …
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The Candy House: a novel, by Jennifer Egan This intricate novel of futurism, connection, love …
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Nights, by Joan Didion Blue Nights is a counterpart to Didion’s 2005 memoir, The Year …
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We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo NoViolet Bulawayo’s powerful novel of the life of …
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Whereabouts, a novel, by Jhumpa Lahiri This melancholy and stylish novel, Jhumpa Lahiri’s third, marks …
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The Clothing of Books, by Jhumpa Lahiri “How do you clothe a book?” is how …
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Spare, by Prince Harry The phenomenon known as Spare is barely a week old, but …
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Titles both recent and vintage I’m looking foward to reading this year. First up, a …
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The Dead Fish Museum: Stories, by Charles D’Ambrosio Of Charles D’Ambrosio and his 2006 story …
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I’ve always admired, though never achieved, the ideal creative input as defined by François Truffaut: …
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Tinkers, by Paul Harding Paul Harding’s Tinkers, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010, tells …
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by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanJerusalem: A Cookbook, by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi. Some cookbooks are defined by a …
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Litstack Recs | Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays & Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
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by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanSalman Rushdie’s account of his life and the fatwa brought against him on Valentine’s Day …
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In this collection, published in 2006, Prose offers close readings on developing the art of …
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Horror is a kind of hybrid form that depends on shock, fear, and sometimes repulsion, …
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The Refugees: Stories, by Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer, the debut novel by Viet Thanh …
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For lovers of the fairy-tale tradition, from Mental Floss, a collection of fairy tales beyond …
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by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanBarbarian Days: A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan William Finnegan’s 2016 memoir begins with an …
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Delayed Rays of a Star, by Amanda Lee Koe At a New Year’s Eve ball …
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Review | The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs: stories by Leslie Kirk Campbell
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by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanHow to Read to Read a Sentence and How to Write One, by Stanley Fish …
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