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LitStack Review: The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy
The Dead Lands Benjamin Percy Grand Central Publishing Release Date: April 14, 2015 ISBN 978-1-4555-2824-0 …
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Please indulge me if I repost a Gimbling in Wabe from back in 2012, but …
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LitStack Recs
LitstackRecs: The Best American Essays & World’s Collider
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanThe Best American Essays, 2013, edited by Cheryl Strayed The Best American series, which in …
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The Tutor Andrea Chapin Riverhead Books Release Date: February 5, 2015 ISBN 978-1-59463-254-9 Author Andrea …
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I love a good book cover, because the artwork itself tells a story. Lately, I …
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LitStack Review: The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Riverhead Books Release Date: January 13, 2015 ISBN …
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It’s been a pretty “wild” week in the city. No, I’m not talking about civil …
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LitStack Recs: Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays & A Guide to Field Identification – Birds of North America
by Tee Tateby Tee TateChanging My Mind: Occasional Essays Zadie Smith This collection of essays came about by accident, …
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Biggie Derek E. Sullivan Albert Whitman & Company Release Date: March 1, 2015 ISBN …
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LitStack Recs: Company of Liars & Life Would be Perfect if I Lived in That House
by Tee Tateby Tee TateLife Would be Perfect if I Lived in That House Meghan Daum The moral of …
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The Only Ones Carola Dibbell Two Dollar Radio Release Date: March 10, 2015 ISBN 978-1-937512-27-9 …
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Flash Review: Jacaranda by Cherie Priest
Jacaranda Cherie Priest Subterranean Press Release Date: January 31, 2015 ISBN 978-1-59606-684-7 When are we …
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It’s going to be a pretty short Gimbling in the Wabe this week, not because …
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Spring and All, William Carlos Willams In the frenzy that was my final term of …
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The Galaxy Game Karen Lord Del Rey Release Date: January 6, 2015 ISBN 978-0-345-53407-1 Have …
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Although this will post the day after William Shakespeare’s birthday, I’m writing it on the …
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Persona Genevieve Valentine Saga Press Release Date: March 10, 2015 ISBN 978-1-4814-2512-4 Oh, my! I …
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LitStack RecsPoetry
LitStack Recs: my name on his tongue & Never Let Me Go
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren Alwanmy name on his tongue, by Laila Halaby In her first book of poetry, published …
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Traveling Light: Unpacking a Story
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanSo there I am, in a small hotel between the Costa Brava and Sitges, once …
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The Just City Jo Walton Tor Books Publication Date: January 13, 2015 ISBN 978-0-7653-3266-0 I …
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I was playing Star Wars The Old Republic the other day. It’s a video game, …
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Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances Neil Gaiman William Morrow Publishers Publication Date: ISBN 978-0-06-233026-0 …
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LitStack Rec: Thunderstruck & Other Stories & Baseball’s Great Experiment
by Tee Tateby Tee TateThunderstruck & Other Stories, by Elizabeth McCracken Early on in Elizabeth McCracken’s extraordinary story collection, …
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(This week’s Gimbling in the Wabe is a retooling of an essay I wrote in …
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LitStack Recs: The Coast of Chicago & The Dovekeepers
by Tee Tateby Tee TateThe Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek I can still recall first reading Stuart Dybek’s …
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LitStack Review: The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell
The Severed Streets Paul Cornell Tor Books Publication Date: May 20, 2014 ISBN 978-0-7653-3028-4 It’s …
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I am currently reading The Severed Streets, sequel to Paul Cornell’s exemplary supernatural crime novel, …
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Women in Their Beds — Gina Berriault Her admirers include Richard Ford, Grace Paley and …
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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me. Back when I …
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LitStack Recs: The Drifters & The Book of Strange New Things
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanThe Drifters, by James Michener I was curious about Michener’s 1971 bestseller, but “Not a book …
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A Darker Shade of Magic V. E. Schwab Tor Books Release Date: February 24, 2015 …
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LitStack Review: Golden Son by Pierce Brown
Golden Son Pierce Brown Del Rey Books Release Date: January 6, 2015 ISBN 978-0-345-53981-6 ATTENTION! …
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The other day I was watching the latest episode of a dramatic television series that …
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LitStack Recs: Without & Three Parts Dead
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanWithout Donald Hall This book is the one of the few that, when I pick …
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Gemini Cell Myke Cole Ace Books Release Date: January 27, 2015 ISBN 978-0-425-26964-0 They’re lying …
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I’d rather be a rising ape than a falling angel. ~ Terry Pratchett Terry Pratchett …
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Historical FictionLitStack Recs
LitStack Rec: Wolf Hall & In Ashes Lie
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanWolf Hall Hilary Mantel Mantel’s novel, which appeared in 2012 and has gone on to …
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LitStack Review: Aces Abroad: Wild Card IV edited by George R. R. Martin
Aces Abroad: Wild Card IV Edited by George R. R. Martin Tor Books Re-release Date: …
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Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping House, by Cheryl Mendelson Spring means spring …
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Glow Ned Beauman Alfred A. Knopf Release Date: January 20, 2015 ISBN 978-0-385-35260-4 Raf is …
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My daughter, who is a cinema studies major in college, is currently taking a class …
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LitStack Recs: Bartleby, The Scrivener & The Emperor’s Blades
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanBartleby, the Scrivener, by Herman Melville Overworked employees, endless legal documents to be copied, the …
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I have a secret I’m going to share with you. It’s not that searing of …
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A Brief Look at the British Travel Memoir
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanThree authors linked by the British tradition of going by foot and writing about it. …
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LitStack Rec: These Charming People & Broken Monsters
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanThese Charming People, stories by Michael Arlen In the period just after World War One, …
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City of Stairs Robert Jackson Bennett Broadway Books Release Date: September 9, 2014 ISBN 978-0-8041-3717-1 …
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I did the unthinkable this week. I culled my books. Some of you may remember …
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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 …