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Litstack Recs | A Wrinkle in Time & Sisters
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle, a rec for #BannedBooksWeek This classic novel, number 23 on the American Library...
Litstack Recs | The Sheltering Sky & The Space Between Worlds
The Sheltering Sky, by Paul Bowles Bowles is one of my favorite writers. His prose is stark yet rich, with...
2022 Hugo Winners Announced
Last night, September 4 in Chicago, the 2022 Hugo winners were announced at Chicon 8, the 80th World Science Fiction...
Litstack Recs | Two titles from WTAW Press & Ninefox Gambit
Two Titles From WTAW Press The Groundhog Forever, by Henry Hoke In Henry Hoke's debut novel, two film students in...
Litstack Recs | The Good Soldier & If You Build It…
The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford If this novel had been published under the title the author selected, "The...
Litstack Recs | The UnAmericans & All the Horses of Iceland
The UnAmericans: Stories by Molly Antopol There’s a literary lineage to the strands of Jewish American literary tradition, contemporary and...
Litstack Recs | Less & A Wild Sheep Chase
Less, a novel: by Andrew Sean Greer Less, the author's sixth book and fifth novel, is a jewel-box of a...
Litstack Recs | Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father & Time Salvager
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, by Alysia Abbott “The truth is,” Alysia Abbott writes in her debut memoir, Fairyland:...
Litstack Recs | The Custom of the Country & The Resisters
The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton I knew from the start that things would go badly for Ralph Marvell. He’s...
Litstack Recs| A Writer’s Notebook & Dog Days
A Writer’s Notebook by Somerset Maugham Like most writers, I keep a notebook—not a journal, but a record of ideas,...
Litstack Recs | How to Write an Autobiographical Novel & When Women Were Dragons
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee "Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
Litstack Recs | Without: Poems & The Kaiju Preservation Society
Without: Poems, by Donald Hall It doesn’t matter what I’m doing or what time of day or night it is,...
Litstack Recs | An Unnecessary Woman & The Poet X
An Unnecessary Woman, by Rabih Alameddine “I like outsiders,” Aaliya Sohbi tells us, “phantoms wandering the cobwebbed halls of the...
Litstack Recs | On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous & Life On Mars
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, A Novel by Ocean Vuong “One does not ‘pass’ in America, it seems, without English.”...
Litstack Recs| Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend & A Song for a New Day
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges For fans of Anna May Wong,...
Litstack Recs | The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries & A Natural History of Dragons
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries, by Emma Thompson With Sunday's 94th Academy Awards coming up, here's a look...
Independent Press Awards 2022 Filling My TBR List
Dear LitStackers, the Independent Press Awards 2022 have been awarded and my TBR list is filling up with titles from...
Litstack Recs | Shout Her Lovely Name & 10:04
Shout Her Lovely Name, by Natalie Serber In the title story to Natalie Serber’s debut story collection, the narrator offers...
Litstack Recs | The Empathy Exams & Age of Ash
The Empathy Exams: Essays, by Leslie Jamison The Empathy Exams is a hybrid work of memoir, literary, cultural, and moral...
Litstack Recs| Out of Place: A Memoir & God’s War
Out of Place: A Memoir, by Edward Said Edward Said, the prolific author, political activist, pianist, and music critic, rose...
Litstack Recs| Arranged Marriage & The Unfamiliar Garden
Arranged Marriage: Stories, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The eleven stories in Arranged Marriage reveal Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s gift for chronicling...
Litstack Recs | Far From the Madding Crowd & The Past is Red
Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy First published in 1874, Hardy's novel of romantic entanglements and agrarian life...
Practical Advice for Beginning Writers
I’ve been writing since I was a kid. (That’s a very long time. I’m old, y’all). Being a published writer...
Litstack Recs – Who Do You Love & Comfort Me With Apples
Who Do You Love: Stories, by Jean Thompson This year marks the twenty-third anniversary of the release of Thompson's classic...
Litstack Rec | The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs & The Dead Lands
Among the terrific releases from indie publishers this month is Leslie Kirk Campbell’s debut story collection, The Man with Eight...
Litstack Recs | This Boy’s Life & Wintering
This Boy’s Life: A Memoir, by Tobias Wolff First published in 1989, Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life has since become a...
Litstack Rec | The Coast of Chicago & Northernmost
The Coast of Chicago: Stories by Stuart Dybek I can still recall first reading Stuart Dybek’s classic short story “We...
Litstack rec | Tinkers & Sistersong
Tinkers, by Paul Harding Paul Harding's Tinkers, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010, tells of George Washington Crosby, a...
Litstack Recs | The Love of A Good Woman & Sisters of the Vast Black
The Love of A Good Woman, Stories by Alice Munro The short story has few practitioners who can touch the...
Litstack Rec |Spielberg, Truffaut, and Me: An Actor’s Diary & American Born Chinese
Spielberg, Truffaut, and Me: An Actor's Diary, by Bob Balaban In the summer of 1976, during the first weeks of...
Litstack Recs |Two books in Conversation: Colm Tóibín and Henry James & A Fort of Nine Towers
The Lesson of the Master, by Henry James, and The Master, by Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín, in his introduction to...
7 Suggestions on Finding Your Writing Groove
Everyone has a different approach to writing. Some outline and plot until their brains feel heavy and the story is...
In Remembrance – Four Years Gone: An Interview with Jay Lake
Courtesy of Waterloo Productions "I love whom I love, and I am loved by more people than I will...
Featured Author Review: The Saint by Tiffany Reisz
The Saint: (The Original Sinners: White Years #1) Tiffany ReiszHarlequin MIRA In the beginning, there was him. Gutsy, green-eyed Eleanor...
Featured Author Review: The Siren by Tiffany Reisz
We can think of no one better to help us kick off our Featured Author segment after such a long...
LitChat Interview: Jenny Bent, The Bent Agency
In a career spanning 15 years, Jenny Bent has made a practice of making bestsellers - either by spotting new...
LitStack Review: The Witch With No Name by Kim Harrison
The Witch With No Name Kim Harrison Harper Voyager (September 9, 2014) ISBN-10: 006195795X ISBN-13: 978-0061957956 I imagine meeting Rachel...
Featured Author Interview: Vicki Pettersson
We'd like to thank Vicki Pettersson and the fine folks at Harper Voyager for allowing us to feature her Celestial...
LitStack Author Interview: Kealan Patrick Burke
Q&A With Kealan Patrick Burke Here at LitStack, we're lovers of all genres of fiction, but for me, personally, horror...
Featured Author Review: ‘The Taken’ by Vicki Pettersson
We're so pleased to bring back our Featured Author segment with the immensely talented and stunningly beautiful Vicki Pettersson, author...
LitStack Review: ‘Twisted Miracles’ by A. J. Larrieu
Twisted Miracles, The Shadowminds – Book 1 A. J. Larrieu Carina Press ASIN: B00GKBIRHQ ISBN-13: 9781426898136 Cass Weatherfield’s powers come...
LitStack Review: ‘Dawn’s Early Light’ by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris
Dawn’s Early Light (Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences) Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris Ace Release Date: 3/25/14 ISBN – 10: 0425267318...
LitChat Interview: Kimberly Witherspoon, InkWell Management
Kimberly Witherspoon, at age 26, founded her own literary agency, which quickly became one of the most prestigious and successful...
LitStack Review: The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison
The Undead Pool Kim Harrison Harper Voyager ISBN-10: 0061957933 Supernatural superhero Rachel Morgan must counter a strange magic that could...