Five Author Birthdays May 29 to June 2 – Who Shares Your Day?
This Week's AuthorsT.H. WHITE - Author Birthday May 29COLM TÓIBÍN - Author Birthday May 30WALT WHITMAN - Author Birthday May...
This Week's AuthorsT.H. WHITE - Author Birthday May 29COLM TÓIBÍN - Author Birthday May 30WALT WHITMAN - Author Birthday May...
This LitStack Rec not only examines character building but also some of the challenging aspects of gender portrayal in the...
What’s Up, and What’s Coming for Alan Cumming?Rejecting the OBELive Cabaret ActIn League with Professor SproutTime to Revisit Not My...
LinesmanS. K. Dunstall*Ace BooksRelease Date: June 30, 2015ISBN 978-0-425-27952-6 The Best Books are Timeless. Is Linesman?You Need to Get One...
Favorite Shakespeare quotes shared during the month of April are a great way to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday. Despite the controversy...
It’s been a while since this dyed-in-the-wool fan of speculative and (often) dystopian fiction found a novel that I found...
Taste: My Life Through Food, a memoir “Cook. Smell. Taste. Eat. Drink. Share. Repeat as necessary.” For better or worse,...
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin’s 2009 novel, recipient of the Costa Award, is an affecting and haunting story set in...
For #WomensHistoryMonth, here are three memoirs that portray a range of women's lives, from mid-century summers in Brittany, to pre-9/11...
The Candy House: a novel, by Jennifer Egan This intricate novel of futurism, connection, love and attachment—like the social media...
Nights, by Joan Didion Blue Nights is a counterpart to Didion’s 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, which tracks...
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo NoViolet Bulawayo's powerful novel of the life of a young girl from Zimbabwe,...
Whereabouts, a novel, by Jhumpa Lahiri This melancholy and stylish novel, Jhumpa Lahiri’s third, marks a tonal and literary departure....
The Clothing of Books, by Jhumpa Lahiri “How do you clothe a book?” is how this small, but powerful volume...
Spare, by Prince Harry The phenomenon known as Spare is barely a week old, but the memoir by Prince Harry,...
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories, by Charles D’Ambrosio Of Charles D'Ambrosio and his 2006 story collection The Dead Fish Museum,...
Tinkers, by Paul Harding Paul Harding's Tinkers, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010, tells of George Washington Crosby, a...
A Few Favorite Reads of 2022 A brief wrap-up of some of the books I loved reading this past year....
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride—by Cary Elwes with Joe Layden and a foreword...
The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides “Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.” That reflection comes early in Jeffrey...
We continue our November celebration of the launch of book two in Menna van Praag's Sisters Grimm series with Sharon's...
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, by Zadie Smith As an essay reader, and writer, I always hope to make a...
This month, we're celebrating the immensely talented Menna van Praag and the launch of the second book in her Sisters...
The World Fantasy Awards are given each year for outstanding achievement in fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year....
I’ll be honest – I almost didn’t commit to this book. It seemed too close to Amazon Prime’s delightful series...
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, with a foreword by Emma Thompson. Edited by Alan Taylor “Of all the...
Head Wounds: SparrowWritten by Brian BuccellatoStory by Robert Johnson and John AlveyArt by Christian Ward A Long Time Coming Okay,...
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, by...
Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror, edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto In their introduction to Tiny Nightmares:...
The Refugees: Stories, by Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer, the debut novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, won the Pulitzer Prize...
It’s November 1913, and the brother/sister team of Aaron and Rosemary Harker are on both a personal and professional mission...
From dressing up for Halloween, to donning appropriate period attire for the local Renaissance Festival, to gearing up for genre-focused...
We've spent August diving into the backlist and current release of one of our favorite writers, Wesley Chu. From his...
I was reading a book the other day. It was a very good book, extremely well written, very imaginative. The...
Wesley Chu is a master at taking what in other hands would be complex, convoluted stories and making them accessible...
A while back I was fortunate to read, in close succession, three masterful works in the science fiction/fantasy genre that...
With Wesley Chu coming out with his newest amazing book The Art of Prophecy, it had me thinking back of...
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, by Alysia Abbott “The truth is," Alysia Abbot writes in her debut memoir, Fairyland:...
As an avid science fiction reader, in 2011 I picked up a copy of James S.A. Corey’s Leviathan Wakes, a...
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. In presenting the award, the Nobel committee...
Linda Nagata is a science fiction and fantasy writer from Hawaii, with seventeen novels and numerous short stories. Her work...
In 2012, LitStack Editor-in-Chief Tee Tate asked me if I would be interested in writing a weekly feature for the...
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir, by Elizabeth Miki BrinaKnopfFebruary 23, 2021978-0525657347 A child’s relationship with their parents can be difficult, especially...
Silence of the SolariBook Two of The Amber Throne SeriesMichael Johnston In 2017, Michael Johnston introduced his Amber Throne series...
As a middle-aged, monogamous white CIS woman, it may seem strange that I’m recommending LGBTQA books in the scifi/fantasy genre...
Gather the FortunesA Crescent City Novel, Book 2Bryan CampJohn Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin HarcourtPublication Date: May 21, 2019ISBN: 978-1328876713 Renaissance Raines...
This is Banned Books Week, and we here at Litstack applaud all the buzz that it's gotten on social media....
Recently I've been reading What Makes This Book So Great, by Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Jo Walton. In...
I feel so blessed that I can "work" from home as a book reviewer, essayist and occasionally as a literary...
Today at the dog park, one of the topics discussed by us "8:30 regulars" included high school graduations. It is,...