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What Makes This Book So Great Jo Walton Tor Release Date: January 21, 2014 ISBN …
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Recently I’ve been reading What Makes This Book So Great, a gathering of essays by …
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Honor’s Knight Rachel Bach Orbit Release Date: February 25, 2014 ISBN 978-0-316-22108-5 Gosh, I am …
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Women in Their Beds — Gina Berriault Her admirers include Richard Ford, Grace Paley and …
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Emerging Author Interview: A. J. Larrieu
by Tee Tateby Tee TateWelcome, A.J. Larrieu, to LitStack. Today we’re thrilled to feature this dynamic author in our …
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UncategorizedUrban Fantasy
LitStack Review: ‘Twisted Miracles’ by A. J. Larrieu
by Tee Tateby Tee TateTwisted Miracles, The Shadowminds – Book 1 A. J. Larrieu Carina Press ASIN: B00GKBIRHQ ISBN-13: 9781426898136 …
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A friend of mine related a story of how he was talking to his young …
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LitStack Rec: ‘Fruits & Vegetables’ and ‘Renascence and Other Poems’
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanFruits & Vegetables Erica Jong Long before Fear of Flying, before Erica Jong’s now-classic novel …
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Head’s up, LitStackers. We’ve got a great spotlight on a brand new urban fantasy series …
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LitStack Review: ‘Boy, Snow, Bird’ by Helen Oyeyemi
Boy, Snow, Bird Helen Oyeyemi Riverhead Books Release Date: March 6, 2014 ISBN 978-1-59463-139-9 They’re …
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LitStack Review: ‘Dawn’s Early Light’ by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris
by Tee Tateby Tee TateDawn’s Early Light (Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences) Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris Ace Release Date: …
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Still Writing After All These Years: The Line between Luck and Love I met …
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So for a few moments, the corner of cyberspace that I tend to hang out …
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Parasite Mira Grant Orbit Publication Date: October 29, 2013 ISBN 978-0-316-21895-5 Zombies are so passé. …
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LitStack Rec: ‘Chicago’ and ‘To This Day’
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanOne of the best definitions of magical realism I’ve read comes from Debra Spark. In …
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Half Bad Sally Green Viking Release Date: March 4, 2014 ISBN 978-0-670-01678-5 Being an teenager …
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I have a confession to make. I’m a wimp. Not in everything. I’m a competent …
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LitStack Recs: Memoirs of Place and The Dinosaur Heresies
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanOn Memoirs of Place: A Quick List I always appreciate a good memoir that centers …
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Visible City Tova Mirvis Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 978-0-544-04774-7 Despite living in a city of …
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In this week’s Gimbling in the Wabe, I’m unapologetically revisiting a piece I have posted …
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Redshirts John Scalzi Tor First Edition: June 5, 2012 ISBN 978-0-7653-1699-8 You don’t have to …
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The Tropic of Serpents: A Memoir of Lady Trent Marie Brennan Tor Release Date: March …
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LitChat Interview: Kimberly Witherspoon, InkWell Management
by Tee Tateby Tee TateKimberly Witherspoon, at age 26, founded her own literary agency, which quickly became one of …
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I took last week off Gimbling in the Wabe; after writing three fairly epic works …
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THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS ANNOUNCES 2014 LITERATURE AWARD WINNERS
by Tee Tateby Tee TateNew York, March 10, 2014 – The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced today …
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LitStack Review: On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
On Such a Full Sea Chang-Rae Lee Riverhead Books Release Date: January 7, 2014 ISBN …
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LitStack Review: The Undead Pool by Kim Harrison
by Tee Tateby Tee TateThe Undead Pool Kim Harrison Harper Voyager ISBN-10: 0061957933 Supernatural superhero Rachel Morgan must counter …
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Of Dogs and Books that Bind It was pretty darned chilly at the off-leash dog …
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Well, Litstackers, it doesn’t look like winter is going to hurry on its way. For …
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LitStack Rec: ‘Spring and All’ and ‘Honest Dogs’
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanSpring and All, William Carlos Willams In a frenzy that could have only taken …
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After learning of my experiences in Russia (as I wrote about in the last few …
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LitStack Review: One More Thing – Stories and Other Stories by B.J. Novak
One More Thing – Stories and Other Stories B. J. Novak Alfred A. Knopf Release …
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We love this post from USA …
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We love this TED from 2010 by author Maggie Stiefvater. Reposted on her Tumblr account …
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LitStack Review: Weather Child by Philippa Ballantine
Weather Child: The Awakened Epoch, Book One Philippa Ballantine Imagine That! Studios Release Date: March …
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This is the third in a series of my reminisces of traveling to Soviet Russia …
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LitStack Rec: Blue Highways and Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies
by Tee Tateby Tee TateBlue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon On a dismal morning in March, 1978, William Least Heat-Moon …
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We love this Kickstarter from our good friend Tee Morris. If you LitStackers will recall, …
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Review and Giveaway: The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma
In celebration of the paperback release of The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, Viking Penguin is …
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Angry Robot Signs a Deal for Ishbelle Bee’s ‘The Singular and Extraordinary Tale of Mirror and Goliath’
by Tee Tateby Tee TateAngry Robot announced their deal for Worldwide Rights, for The Singular and Extraordinary Tale of …
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LitStack Review: Hild by Nicola Griffith
Hild Nicola Griffith Farrar, Straus and Giroux First Edition: November 12, 2013 ISBN 978-0-374-28087-1 Seventh …
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Songs That Make Books Better A few months ago I wrote about some pretty general …
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LitStack’s ‘In Case You Missed It’ Review: The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
The Lives of Tao Wesley Chu Angry Robot Release Date: April 30, 2013 ISBN 978-0-85766-329-0 …
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This, it turns out, is the second of three Gimblings that recount a trip I …
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LitStack Recs: ‘Paris Stories’ and ‘The Book of Killowen’
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanParis StoriesMavis Gallant When the news came Tuesday that the great story writer Mavis Gallant …
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It’s a Jekyll and Hyde Thing: My Pursuit of the Written Word
by Tee Tateby Tee TateThe pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being …
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Details on Book Two of Rowling’s ‘Galbraith’ Series Emerges
by Tee Tateby Tee TateThe Bookseller is reporting that details on the second mystery novel penned by Robert Galbraith …
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It seems, (in this editor’s opinion anyway), that there are a lot of really great …
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Attention Whedonites: Doctor Horrible Two Will Happen
by Tee Tateby Tee TateWe were just a bit too excited when we came across this post from Screen …