Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin’s 2009 novel, which won that year’s Costa Award, is a…
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The Perfume Collector Kathleen Tessaro Last week, I loaned out my copy of Kathleen Tessaro’s…
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Sarah Younger has been with Nancy Yost Literary Agency since 2011, having previously been an…
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Jerusalem: A Cookbook, by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi. Some cookbooks are defined by a…
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Wonder Woman Unbound The Curious History of the World’s Most Famous Heroine Tim Hanley I’ve…
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Wonder Woman Unbound The Curious History of the World’s Most Famous Heroine Tim Hanley College…
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A Fort of Nine Towers Qais Akbar Omar From a young boy’s memories comes a…
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Sex Criminals Volume 1 – One Weird Trick Volume 2 – Two Worlds, One Cop…
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Dept. of Speculation, by Jenny Offill With the release of Jenny Offill’s acclaimed second novel,…
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LitStack Recs
LitStack Recs: How to Write a Sentence: And How To Read One & My Father’s Arms Are a Boat
How to Read to Read a Sentence and How to Write One, by Stanley Fish…
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Vivian Maier: Street Photographer by Vivian Maier (Author), John Maloof (Editor), Geoff Dyer (Contributor) For…
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Lisa Rodgers grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated from California…
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The Song of David Amy Harmon ISBN-10: 1514185016 I won my first fight when I…
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Thanks so much to Amy Harmon, our June Featured Author for taking the time to…
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Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin’s 2009 novel, which won that year’s Costa Award, is a…
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Law of Moses Amy Harmon ISBN-10: 1502830825 If I tell you right up front, right…
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The Varying Poverties of Now In the appendix to his brief but radiant 2010 manifesto…
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This month we return to our Featured Author segment and will spend the month highlighting…
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Without Donald Hall It doesn’t matter what I’m doing or what time of day or…
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I love a good book cover, because the artwork itself tells a story. Lately, I…
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LitStack Recs
LitStack Recs: Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays & A Guide to Field Identification – Birds of North America
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays Zadie Smith This collection of essays came about by accident,…
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LitStack Recs: Company of Liars & Life Would be Perfect if I Lived in That House
Life Would be Perfect if I Lived in That House Meghan Daum The moral of…
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Spring and All, William Carlos Willams In the frenzy that was my final term of…
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Literary FictionLitStack RecsShort Stories
LitStack Rec: Thunderstruck & Other Stories & Baseball’s Great Experiment
Thunderstruck & Other Stories, by Elizabeth McCracken Early on in Elizabeth McCracken’s extraordinary story collection,…
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The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek I can still recall first reading Stuart Dybek’s…
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Women in Their Beds — Gina Berriault Her admirers include Richard Ford, Grace Paley and…
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Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon On a dismal morning in March, 1978, William Least Heat-Moon…
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Blackbird Fly Erin Entrada Kelly Greenwillow Books ISBN 978-0-06-223861-0 In Erin Entrada Kelly’s debut…
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Who Do You Love: Stories, by Jean Thompson My favorite short stories all seem to…
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Creative WritingLitStack Toolkit
LitStack Recs: The Night Angel Trilogy & A Definitive study of Alfred Hitchcock
The Night Angel Trilogy The Way of Shadows / Shadow’s Edge / Beyond the Shadows…
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Instructions: Everything You’ll Need to Know on Your Journey Neil Gaiman Illustrated by Charles Vess…
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Falling Away (Fall Away #3) Penelope Douglas Penguin Group Jaxon is the guy she’s supposed…
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The Pretty Girl, a novella and stories, by Debra Spark. In Spark’s 2012 collection, the…
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The Lesson of the Master, by Henry James Colm Tóibín, in his introduction to the…
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The Firefox Book, by Elliot Wigginton (editor) Perfect for #throwbackthursday, this compendium of customs and…
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Nora Webster, by Colm Tóibín At the heart of Colm Tóibín‘s new novel is the story…
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LitStack RecsUncategorized
LitStack Rec: Back Roads and Frontal Lobes & The Postman Always Rings Twice
Back Roads and Frontal Lobes Brady Allen I cannot think of a better book to…
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Sometimes the truest friends aren’t those sitting next to you in class or skipping rocks…
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Elsewhere, A Memoir Richard Russo For lack of better word, Richard Russo says, he calls…
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Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel This recommendation is of a book I’ve not yet finished, or…
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Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, by Alysia Abbott “The truth is,” Alysia Abbot writes…
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Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin’s 2009 novel, which won that year’s Costa Award, is a…
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The Witch With No Name Kim Harrison Harper Voyager (September 9, 2014) ISBN-10: 006195795X ISBN-13:…
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A Writer’s Notebookby Somerset Maugham Like most writers, I keep a notebook. It’s small and…
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Follow the Rival Blog Tour ! Title: Rival Series: A Fall Away Novel, Book…
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Ship Fever: Stories, by Andrea Barrett It’s been called the Oscars of the book world, and…
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Evening Stars Susan Mallery Harlequin/Mira ISBN: 978-0-7738-1613-8 Nina Wentworth lives on Blackberry Island, a small…
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The Master, by Colm Tóibín I was only a page or so into Colm Tóibín’s…
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The Android’s Dream John Scalzi With the announcement of John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series…
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A Brief Look at Three Books on Writing Craft —Lauren Alwan When it comes to…