The Most Cringe-Worthy Song Lyrics Ever?
The grammatically awkward in music, via Twitter Grammarians, beware. Over on Twitter, Patricia Smith—poet, spoken-word performer, playwright, and author—posed the...
Lauren Alwan
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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Selected Stories, by William Trevor A volume of stories by William Trevor is a reader's must-have, and this 2009 collection...
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Wereworld illustrated novella launches
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Litstack Recs | Stoner & If You Build It
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Tin House Books Reading Nonfiction Subs
A great opportunity for nonfiction writers! Three times per year, Tin House Books offers a two-day submission period for writers...
Litstack Recs| Commonwealth & Black Water Sister
Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett Of divorce, Nicole Krauss wrote, "One of us held on to the ambition of the one...
#PitMad Pitch Party Returns Sept. 2
For unagented writers seeking representation, be sure to check out the Twitter-based pitch event, #PitMad, where writers tweet a 280-character...
National Book Critics’ Circle Kicks Off Auction for Literary Inclusion
The National Book Critics' Circle, which honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature, will...
Happy 85th Robert Redford
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LitStack Review | A Woman is No Man: A Novel, by Etaf Rum
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Litstack Rec | A Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock & Boy Erased
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Litstack Recs: The Dead Fish Museum: Stories & Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells
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Litstack Recs |Out of Place: A Memoir & Unless
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Litstack Recs | Passage to Ararat & LaRose
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Litstack Recs |Paris Stories & Slow River
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Litstack Rec |Desperate Characters & Luster
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Litstack Recs | How to Grow Old Disgracefully: An Autobiography &
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Litstack Recs | Changing My Mind & Time Salvager
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Litstack Recs | Current WTAW Press Titles & Other Americans
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Litstack Recs | Less & The Sol Majestic
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Litstack Recs | The Refugees – Stories & The Orphan Master’s Son
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Litstack Rec | Brooklyn & Miranda and Caliban
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Litstack Recs | Epilogue – A Memoir & The Grind
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Litstack Rec |An Unnecessary Woman & John Saturnall’s Feast
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Litstack Recs | #StayHome Summer Reads & The Resisters
The summer of 2020 is unlike those past—no traveling, no baseball games, limited beach and park time, if any, and...
Litstack Recs: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel & Tranny
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee "Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
Litstack Recs | AUTHOR – The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan & Life on Mars
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Litstack Recs | Dreams From My Father: A Story of Inheritance & Gideon the Ninth
Dreams From My Father, by Barack Obama Stories that center on fathers have a distinct place in the memoir genre....
Litstack Rec |Delayed Rays of a Star & Feed
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Litstack Recs|There There & The Expanse Series
There There: A novel, by Tommy Orange Brilliant, innovative, lyric. Tommy Orange's stunning fiction debut is all those things, but...
Litstack Recs |Spielberg, Truffaut and Me & Glow
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Litstack Recs | WTAW Press 2019 ebooks & Cyber Shogun Revolution
WTAW Press 2019 Titles WTAW Press released two great titles in 2019, Chimerica, the debut novel from Anita Fellicelli, and...
Litstack Recs | Little Failure & Chosen Ones
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Litstack rec | The Way We Live Now & The Red
As you read this you may, like me, be working from home, while your partner is doing the same, and...
Litstack recs | The Marriage Plot, by Jeffery Eugenides
The Marriage Plot, by Jeffery Eugenides “Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.” That ironic reflection comes early in...
Litstack Recs: The Vexations & Pet
The Vexations: a novel, by Caitlin Horrocks The lives of artists must portray artmaking for what it is: work—anything else...
Litstack Recs: There There & Emily Eternal
There There: A novel, by Tommy Orange Brilliant, innovative, lyric. Tommy Orange's stunning fiction debut is all those things, but...
Litstack Recs: The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries & LaRose
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries, by Emma Thompson Emma Thompson's diary tracks the making of the award-winning Sense...
Litstack Rec: Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend & The Wanderers
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Litstack Recs: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays & Wintering
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Litstack Rec: The Dead Fish Museum & Suicide Woods
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories, by Charles D'Ambrosio Charles D'Ambrosio's 2006 story collection, The Dead Fish Museum, is set in...
Litstack Rec: An Unnecessary Woman & A Song for a New Day
An Unnecessary Woman, by Rabih Alameddine “I like outsiders,” Aaliya Sohbi tells us, “phantoms wandering the cobwebbed halls of the...
LitStack Rec: This Boy’s Life and Landscape With Invisible Hand
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Litstack Recs: Vanity Fair & Slade House
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Litstack Rec: Car Trouble & The Sol Majestic
As Car Trouble opens, it's one a.m., and the novel’s young protagonist, Nicky Flynn, is driving backwards through the streets...
Litstack Recs: Arranged Marriage: Stories & Shadow Run
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