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  • Litstack NowLitStack RecsShort Stories

    “Ship Fever” and “The Lighthouse Road” – 2 LitStack Recs

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 23 September, 2023
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 23 September, 2023

    Ship Fever: Stories, by Andrea Barrett One of my favorite National Book Awards selections in…

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    These Charming People: Stories & The Stargazer’s Sister

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 9 September, 2023
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 9 September, 2023

    These Charming People, stories by Michael Arlen In the period just after World War One,…

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  • Litstack NowLitStack Reviews

    A Spectacular Collision Of Pluck And Honor In “Capture the Sun” by Jessie Mihalik

    by Sharon Browning 24 August, 2023
    by Sharon Browning 24 August, 2023

    When you Capture the Sun, yes, the sex turns to steam! Hitting All The Right…

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  • LitStack Recs

    “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig

    by Sharon Browning 19 August, 2023
    by Sharon Browning 19 August, 2023

    The book that was on everyone’s TBR list! We’re revisiting Matt Haig’s bestseller The Midnight…

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  • LitStack PicksLitStack RecsOpinion

    The “Wheel of Time” and My Complex Relationship with the Epic Series

    by Sharon Browning 5 May, 2023
    by Sharon Browning 5 May, 2023

    This LitStack Rec not only examines character building but also some of the challenging aspects…

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  • LitStack Recs

    Inspiring You to Keep Up with Alan Cumming – Revisiting “Not My Father’s Son”

    by Sharon Browning 22 April, 2023
    by Sharon Browning 22 April, 2023

    This LitStack Rec is perfect for you to revisit or get to know Cumming’s 2014 memoir “Not My Father’s Son.”

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  • LitStack RecsLitStack ReviewsScience Fiction

    A Brilliant 10 for “Linesman” – Revisiting Ean Lambert’s Singing in the Novel by S.K. Dunstall

    by Sharon Browning 14 April, 2023
    by Sharon Browning 14 April, 2023

    LinesmanS. K. Dunstall*Ace BooksRelease Date:  June 30, 2015ISBN 978-0-425-27952-6 The Best Books are Timeless. Is…

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  • LitStack Reviews

    The Women Could Fly, by Megan Giddings

    by Sharon Browning 27 March, 2023
    by Sharon Browning 27 March, 2023

    It’s been a while since this dyed-in-the-wool fan of speculative and (often) dystopian fiction found…

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  • LitStack RecsLitStack Reviews

    Stanley Tucci’s Taste: My Life Through Food & Six of Crows

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 24 March, 2023
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 24 March, 2023

    Taste: My Life Through Food, a memoir “Cook. Smell. Taste. Eat. Drink. Share. Repeat as…

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    Three Classic Irish Writers to Read on St. Patrick’s Day & Wintering

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 17 March, 2023
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 17 March, 2023

    Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin’s 2009 novel, recipient of the Costa Award, is an affecting…

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  • LitStack RecsMemoir

    Litstack Recs | Three Memoirs for Women’s History Month & The Terraformers

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 10 March, 2023
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 10 March, 2023

    For #WomensHistoryMonth, here are three memoirs that portray a range of women’s lives, from mid-century…

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  • LitStack RecsMemoir

    Litstack Recs | The Candy House & Born A Crime

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 24 February, 2023
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 24 February, 2023

    The Candy House: a novel, by Jennifer Egan This intricate novel of futurism, connection, love…

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    LitStack Recs | Nights & The Ballad of Black Tom

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 17 February, 2023
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 17 February, 2023

    Nights, by Joan Didion Blue Nights is a counterpart to Didion’s 2005 memoir, The Year…

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    LitStack Recs | We Need New Names & The UnAmericans

    by Sharon Browning & Lauren Alwan 10 February, 2023
    by Sharon Browning & Lauren Alwan 10 February, 2023

    We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo NoViolet Bulawayo’s powerful novel of the life of…

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    Litstack Recs | Whereabouts & Slay

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 3 February, 2023
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 3 February, 2023

    Whereabouts, a novel, by Jhumpa Lahiri This melancholy and stylish novel, Jhumpa Lahiri’s third, marks…

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    LitStack Recs | The Clothing of Books & The City & the City

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 27 January, 2023
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 27 January, 2023

    The Clothing of Books, by Jhumpa Lahiri “How do you clothe a book?” is how…

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    Litstack Recs | Spare & The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 20 January, 2023
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 20 January, 2023

    Spare, by Prince Harry The phenomenon known as Spare is barely a week old, but…

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    Litstack Recs | The Dead Fish Museum & Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 13 January, 2023
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 13 January, 2023

    The Dead Fish Museum: Stories, by Charles D’Ambrosio Of Charles D’Ambrosio and his 2006 story…

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    LitStack Recs | Tinkers & Pet

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 30 December, 2022
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 30 December, 2022

    Tinkers, by Paul Harding Paul Harding’s Tinkers, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010, tells…

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  • LitStack RecsLitStack List

    Litstack Recs | Favorite Reads of 2022 & Project Hail Mary

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 23 December, 2022
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 23 December, 2022

    A Few Favorite Reads of 2022 A brief wrap-up of some of the books I…

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  • LitStack Recs

    Litstack Recs | As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride & The Snow Child

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 16 December, 2022
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 16 December, 2022

    As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride—by Cary Elwes with…

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    LitStack Recs| The Marriage Plot & The City Inside

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 9 December, 2022
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 9 December, 2022

    The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides “Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.” That…

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  • Featured AuthorLitStack Reviews

    Featured Author Review: The Night of Demons and Saints by Menna van Praag

    by Sharon Browning 21 November, 2022
    by Sharon Browning 21 November, 2022

    We continue our November celebration of the launch of book two in Menna van Praag’s…

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  • UncategorizedLitStack Recs

    Litstack Recs | Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays & Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 17 November, 2022
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 17 November, 2022

    Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, by Zadie Smith As an essay reader, and writer, I…

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    LitStack’s Featured Author Review: The Sisters Grimm by Menna van Praag

    by Sharon Browning 17 November, 2022
    by Sharon Browning 17 November, 2022

    This month, we’re celebrating the immensely talented Menna van Praag and the launch of the…

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  • AwardsLitStack List

    Announcing the Winners of the 2022 World Fantasy Awards

    by Sharon Browning 14 November, 2022
    by Sharon Browning 14 November, 2022

    The World Fantasy Awards are given each year for outstanding achievement in fantasy fiction published…

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  • New ReleaseBook LoveLitStack Reviews

    LitStack Review | When Franny Stands Up, by Eden Robins

    by Sharon Browning 7 November, 2022
    by Sharon Browning 7 November, 2022

    I’ll be honest – I almost didn’t commit to this book. It seemed too close…

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  • LitStack RecsMemoir

    Litstack Recs | Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman & The Grind

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 4 November, 2022
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 4 November, 2022

    The sensibility of this singular actor may have its push and pull, but among the pleasures of reading his diaries is being inside Rickman’s head.

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  • ComicsBook LoveLitStack Reviews

    LitStack Review | Head Wounds: Sparrow

    by Sharon Browning 30 October, 2022
    by Sharon Browning 30 October, 2022

    Head Wounds: SparrowWritten by Brian BuccellatoStory by Robert Johnson and John AlveyArt by Christian Ward…

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  • LitStack Recs

    Litstack Recs I Reading Like a Writer & Twisted Fairy Tales

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 28 October, 2022
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 28 October, 2022

    In this collection, published in 2006, Prose offers close readings on developing the art of reading in order to improve one’s writing craft.

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    LitStack Recs | Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror & Till the End

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 21 October, 2022
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 21 October, 2022

    Horror is a kind of hybrid form that depends on shock, fear, and sometimes repulsion, while literary fiction is driven by character and language, and as flash with its concision and intensity, the scary story takes on a fresh shape.

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    Litstack Recs | The Refugees, Stories by Viet Thanh Nguyen & The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 14 October, 2022
    by Lauren Alwan & Sharon Browning 14 October, 2022

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  • LitStack Reviews

    LitStack Review: Uncanny Times, by Laura Anne Gilman

    by Sharon Browning 10 October, 2022
    by Sharon Browning 10 October, 2022

    It’s November 1913, and the brother/sister team of Aaron and Rosemary Harker are on both…

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  • Reviews by Genre

    Cosplay: A History by Andrew Liptak

    by Sharon Browning 4 October, 2022
    by Sharon Browning 4 October, 2022

    From dressing up for Halloween, to donning appropriate period attire for the local Renaissance Festival,…

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  • Author InterviewsFeatured Author

    Featured Author Interview| Wesley Chu

    by Sharon Browning 31 August, 2022
    by Sharon Browning 31 August, 2022

    We’ve spent August diving into the backlist and current release of one of our favorite…

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  • Of InterestOpinion

    Miserable Fiction

    by Sharon Browning 29 August, 2022
    by Sharon Browning 29 August, 2022

    I was reading a book the other day.  It was a very good book, extremely…

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  • FantasyFeatured AuthorReviews by Genre

    Featured Author Review: The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu

    by Sharon Browning 25 August, 2022
    by Sharon Browning 25 August, 2022

    Wesley Chu is a master at taking what in other hands would be complex, convoluted…

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  • Of InterestOpinionUncategorized

    In Praise of Difficult Genre Fiction

    by Sharon Browning 22 August, 2022
    by Sharon Browning 22 August, 2022

    A while back I was fortunate to read, in close succession, three masterful works in…

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  • Featured Author

    Featured Author| Wesley Chu: Making the Sausage

    by Sharon Browning 19 August, 2022
    by Sharon Browning 19 August, 2022

    With Wesley Chu coming out with his newest amazing book The Art of Prophecy, it…

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  • LitStack RecsUncategorized

    LitStack Recs| Fairyland & The Once and Future Witches

    by Sharon Browning 31 December, 2021
    by Sharon Browning 31 December, 2021

    Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, by Alysia Abbott “The truth is,” Alysia Abbot writes…

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  • Book LoveLitStack ReviewsUncategorized

    A Spectacular Decade – the Expanse Series Closes with Leviathan Falls

    by Sharon Browning 27 December, 2021
    by Sharon Browning 27 December, 2021

    As an avid science fiction reader, in 2011 I picked up a copy of James…

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  • News

    Abdulrazak Gurnah Wins the Noble Prize for Literature

    by Sharon Browning 11 October, 2021
    by Sharon Browning 11 October, 2021

    Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. In presenting…

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  • 5 QuestionsAuthor InterviewsUncategorized

    5 Questions for Linda Nagata

    by Sharon Browning 28 September, 2021
    by Sharon Browning 28 September, 2021

    Linda Nagata is a science fiction and fantasy writer from Hawaii, with seventeen novels and…

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  • Gimbling in the Wabe

    Gimbling in the Wabe | The Words I Have Etched on My Body

    by Sharon Browning 9 August, 2021
    by Sharon Browning 9 August, 2021

    In 2012, LitStack Editor-in-Chief Tee Tate asked me if I would be interested in writing…

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  • LitStack Reviews

    LitStack Review | Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brina

    by Sharon Browning 5 August, 2021
    by Sharon Browning 5 August, 2021

    Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir, by Elizabeth Miki BrinaKnopfFebruary 23, 2021978-0525657347 A child’s relationship with their…

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  • LitStack ReviewsUncategorized

    LitStack Review: Silence of the Solari by Michael Johnston

    by Sharon Browning 15 March, 2021
    by Sharon Browning 15 March, 2021

    Silence of the SolariBook Two of The Amber Throne SeriesMichael Johnston In 2017, Michael Johnston…

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  • LitStack RecsOpinion

    Celebrating PRIDE Month: A Dozen LGBTQA SciFi/Fantasy Books I Would Highly Recommend

    by Sharon Browning 24 June, 2020
    by Sharon Browning 24 June, 2020

    As a middle-aged, monogamous white CIS woman, it may seem strange that I’m recommending LGBTQA…

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  • LitStack ReviewsNew Release

    LitStack Review: Gather the Fortunes by Bryan Camp

    by Sharon Browning 16 May, 2019
    by Sharon Browning 16 May, 2019

    Gather the FortunesA Crescent City Novel, Book 2Bryan CampJohn Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin HarcourtPublication Date:  May…

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  • Banned Books

    A Few Thoughts on Banned Books Week

    by Sharon Browning 24 September, 2018
    by Sharon Browning 24 September, 2018

    This is Banned Books Week, and we here at Litstack applaud all the buzz that…

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  • Gimbling in the Wabe

    Why Do People Read Bad Books?

    by Sharon Browning 15 August, 2018
    by Sharon Browning 15 August, 2018

    Recently I’ve been reading What Makes This Book So Great, by Hugo and Nebula Award…

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