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...
Sharon Browning
The “Wheel of Time” and My Complex Relationship with the Epic Series
This LitStack Rec not only examines character building but also some of the challenging aspects of gender portrayal in the...
Inspiring You to Keep Up with Alan Cumming – Revisiting “Not My Father’s Son”
What’s Up, and What’s Coming for Alan Cumming?Rejecting the OBELive Cabaret ActIn League with Professor SproutTime to Revisit Not My...
A Brilliant 10 for “Linesman” – Revisiting Ean Lambert’s Singing in the Novel by S.K. Dunstall
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 – Love Letters, Sonnets, Insults, and Curses
Favorite Shakespeare quotes shared during the month of April are a great way to celebrate Shakespeare's birthday. Despite the controversy...
The Women Could Fly, by Megan Giddings
It’s been a while since this dyed-in-the-wool fan of speculative and (often) dystopian fiction found a novel that I found...
Stanley Tucci’s Taste: My Life Through Food & Six of Crows
Taste: My Life Through Food, a memoir “Cook. Smell. Taste. Eat. Drink. Share. Repeat as necessary.” For better or worse,...
Three Classic Irish Writers to Read on St. Patrick’s Day & Wintering
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin’s 2009 novel, recipient of the Costa Award, is an affecting and haunting story set in...
Litstack Recs | Three Memoirs for Women’s History Month & The Terraformers
For #WomensHistoryMonth, here are three memoirs that portray a range of women's lives, from mid-century summers in Brittany, to pre-9/11...
Litstack Recs | The Candy House & Born A Crime
The Candy House: a novel, by Jennifer Egan This intricate novel of futurism, connection, love and attachment—like the social media...
LitStack Recs | Nights & The Ballad of Black Tom
Nights, by Joan Didion Blue Nights is a counterpart to Didion’s 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, which tracks...
LitStack Recs | We Need New Names & The UnAmericans
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo NoViolet Bulawayo's powerful novel of the life of a young girl from Zimbabwe,...
Litstack Recs | Whereabouts & Slay
Whereabouts, a novel, by Jhumpa Lahiri This melancholy and stylish novel, Jhumpa Lahiri’s third, marks a tonal and literary departure....
LitStack Recs | The Clothing of Books & The City & the City
The Clothing of Books, by Jhumpa Lahiri “How do you clothe a book?” is how this small, but powerful volume...
Litstack Recs | Spare & The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Spare, by Prince Harry The phenomenon known as Spare is barely a week old, but the memoir by Prince Harry,...
Litstack Recs | The Dead Fish Museum & Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories, by Charles D’Ambrosio Of Charles D'Ambrosio and his 2006 story collection The Dead Fish Museum,...
LitStack Recs | Tinkers & Pet
Tinkers, by Paul Harding Paul Harding's Tinkers, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010, tells of George Washington Crosby, a...
Litstack Recs | Favorite Reads of 2022 & Project Hail Mary
A Few Favorite Reads of 2022 A brief wrap-up of some of the books I loved reading this past year....
Litstack Recs | As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride & The Snow Child
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride—by Cary Elwes with Joe Layden and a foreword...
LitStack Recs| The Marriage Plot & The City Inside
The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides “Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.” That reflection comes early in Jeffrey...
Featured Author Review: The Night of Demons and Saints by Menna van Praag
We continue our November celebration of the launch of book two in Menna van Praag's Sisters Grimm series with Sharon's...
Litstack Recs | Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays & Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, by Zadie Smith As an essay reader, and writer, I always hope to make a...
LitStack’s Featured Author Review: The Sisters Grimm by Menna van Praag
This month, we're celebrating the immensely talented Menna van Praag and the launch of the second book in her Sisters...
Announcing the Winners of the 2022 World Fantasy Awards
The World Fantasy Awards are given each year for outstanding achievement in fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year....
LitStack Review | When Franny Stands Up, by Eden Robins
I’ll be honest – I almost didn’t commit to this book. It seemed too close to Amazon Prime’s delightful series...
Litstack Recs | Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman & The Grind
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, with a foreword by Emma Thompson. Edited by Alan Taylor “Of all the...
LitStack Review | Head Wounds: Sparrow
Head Wounds: SparrowWritten by Brian BuccellatoStory by Robert Johnson and John AlveyArt by Christian Ward A Long Time Coming Okay,...
Litstack Recs I Reading Like a Writer & Twisted Fairy Tales
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, by...
LitStack Recs | Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror & Till the End
Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror, edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto In their introduction to Tiny Nightmares:...
Litstack Recs | The Refugees, Stories by Viet Thanh Nguyen & The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
The Refugees: Stories, by Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer, the debut novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, won the Pulitzer Prize...
LitStack Review: Uncanny Times, by Laura Anne Gilman
It’s November 1913, and the brother/sister team of Aaron and Rosemary Harker are on both a personal and professional mission...
Cosplay: A History by Andrew Liptak
From dressing up for Halloween, to donning appropriate period attire for the local Renaissance Festival, to gearing up for genre-focused...
Featured Author Interview| Wesley Chu
We've spent August diving into the backlist and current release of one of our favorite writers, Wesley Chu. From his...
Miserable Fiction
I was reading a book the other day. It was a very good book, extremely well written, very imaginative. The...
Featured Author Review: The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu
Wesley Chu is a master at taking what in other hands would be complex, convoluted stories and making them accessible...
In Praise of Difficult Genre Fiction
A while back I was fortunate to read, in close succession, three masterful works in the science fiction/fantasy genre that...
Featured Author| Wesley Chu: Making the Sausage
With Wesley Chu coming out with his newest amazing book The Art of Prophecy, it had me thinking back of...
LitStack Recs| Fairyland & The Once and Future Witches
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, by Alysia Abbott “The truth is," Alysia Abbot writes in her debut memoir, Fairyland:...
A Spectacular Decade – the Expanse Series Closes with Leviathan Falls
As an avid science fiction reader, in 2011 I picked up a copy of James S.A. Corey’s Leviathan Wakes, a...
Abdulrazak Gurnah Wins the Noble Prize for Literature
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. In presenting the award, the Nobel committee...
5 Questions for Linda Nagata
Linda Nagata is a science fiction and fantasy writer from Hawaii, with seventeen novels and numerous short stories. Her work...
Gimbling in the Wabe | The Words I Have Etched on My Body
In 2012, LitStack Editor-in-Chief Tee Tate asked me if I would be interested in writing a weekly feature for the...
LitStack Review | Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brina
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir, by Elizabeth Miki BrinaKnopfFebruary 23, 2021978-0525657347 A child’s relationship with their parents can be difficult, especially...
LitStack Review: Silence of the Solari by Michael Johnston
Silence of the SolariBook Two of The Amber Throne SeriesMichael Johnston In 2017, Michael Johnston introduced his Amber Throne series...
Celebrating PRIDE Month: A Dozen LGBTQA SciFi/Fantasy Books I Would Highly Recommend
As a middle-aged, monogamous white CIS woman, it may seem strange that I’m recommending LGBTQA books in the scifi/fantasy genre...
LitStack Review: Gather the Fortunes by Bryan Camp
Gather the FortunesA Crescent City Novel, Book 2Bryan CampJohn Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin HarcourtPublication Date: May 21, 2019ISBN: 978-1328876713 Renaissance Raines...
A Few Thoughts on Banned Books Week
This is Banned Books Week, and we here at Litstack applaud all the buzz that it's gotten on social media....
Why Do People Read Bad Books?
Recently I've been reading What Makes This Book So Great, by Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Jo Walton. In...
Of Words and Dogs and Little Fishes*
I feel so blessed that I can "work" from home as a book reviewer, essayist and occasionally as a literary...
Gimbling in the Wabe – Inspiration in Transitions
Today at the dog park, one of the topics discussed by us "8:30 regulars" included high school graduations. It is,...
