Litstack Recs | The Drifters & Pacific Storm
The Drifters, by James Michener In middle school, I was curious about the 1971 bestseller on my mother's bookshelf, but Not...
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Litstack Recs | Delayed Rays of a Star & Space Opera
Delayed Rays of a Star, by Amanda Lee Koe At a New Year’s Eve ball in 1928, the German-born American...
Litstack Recs| my name on his tongue & Feed
my name on his tongue, by Laila Halaby Laila Halaby’s, my name on his tongue, her first book of poetry,...
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...
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...
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 Recs | The Portable Veblen & The Other Americans
The Portable Veblen, by Elizabeth Mckenzie By way of Anne Lamott, we know the novelist Ethan Canin once remarked, “Nothing...
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| 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:...
Litstack Recs | Little Failure & Light from Uncommon Stars
Little Failure: A Memoir, by Gary Shteyngart "In order for me to be born," Gary Shteyngart says early on in...
Litstack Recs | Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures & The Last House on Needless Street
Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, by Emma Straub Those captivated by Old Hollywood will surely love Emma Straub’s debut novel,...
Litstack Recs | Light Years & The Expanse Series
Light Years, by James Salter First published in 1975, this novel is considered among James Salter's most enduring. Known for...
Litstack Recs | The Oysters of Locmariaquer & A Spindle Splintered
The Oysters of Locmariaquer, by Eleanor Clark Late in Eleanor Clark’s extraordinary book, she tells us the oyster needs the...
Litstack Rec |How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One & Frankie & Bug
How to Read to Read a Sentence and How to Write One, by Stanley Fish When I'm reading, the sentence...
Fantasy Series to Feed Your Need
With the Marvel Cinematic Universe in high production, high-level sci-fi productions of The Expanse and Star Trek Discovery (and Picard!)...
Litstack Recs | The Postman Always Rings Twice & To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain A Classic for #NovemberNoir James M. Cain never spoke like his...
Litstack Recs | Werewolves in Their Youth & A History of What Comes Next
Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories, by Michael Chabon Michael Chabon’s Werewolves in Their Youth isn’t exactly horror or sci-fi, though...
Litstack Rec | A Writer’s Notebook & Shadow Run
A Writer’s Notebook by Somerset Maugham Like most writers, I keep a notebook—not a journal, but a record of ideas,...
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 | Life Drawing & The Midnight Library
Life Drawing: a novel, by Robin Black “Nobody outside a marriage can understand it,” the narrator of Life Drawing tells...
Litstack Recs | Selected Stories & Before the Ruins
Selected Stories, by William Trevor A volume of stories by William Trevor is a reader's must-have, and this 2009 collection...
Litstack Recs| Olive Kitteridge & Aetherbound
Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout “Stories about women in houses are the real stories of our lives.” Thequote, from director...
Litstack Recs | Stoner & If You Build It
Stoner, by John Williams When it was first published, John Williams’ 1965 novel went out of print after selling only...
Litstack Recs| Commonwealth & Black Water Sister
Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett Of divorce, Nicole Krauss wrote, "One of us held on to the ambition of the one...
LitStack Recs – Blood Will Out & Gideon the Ninth
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade, by Walter Kirn In Preston Sturges’ ...
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...
Litstack Recs | Two New Titles Slated for The Moneybunnies Series & Zombie Baseball Beatdown
The Moneybunnies Series, by Cinders McLeod Toronto-based author and cartoonist Cinders McLeod has come up with a brilliant tool way...
Litstack Rec | There There & Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous
There There: A novel, by Tommy Orange Brilliant, innovative, lyric. Tommy Orange's stunning fiction debut is all those things, but...
Litstack Recs – Dreams From My Father & Wendy Darling
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama On August 4, Barack Obama celebrates his...
Litstack Recs | Less & Sisters
Less, by Andrew Sean Greer Less, the sixth book and fifth novel by Andrew Sean Greer, is a jewel-box of...
Litstack Recs | Vanity Fair & Dog Days
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray July 18 marks the 210th birthday of William Makepeace Thackeray, whose novel of social-climbing,...
Litstack Recs | Midsummer Reads & The Last Days of Magic
Midsummer Reads I've got a beautiful TBR stack, and in recent months I've been spending time with some fantastic books....
Litstack Recs |Four New Adaptations from Kirkus Reviews’ Book to Screen & Gideon the Ninth
Four New Adaptations from Kirkus Reviews' Book to Screen This week at Kirkus, the legendary book review site, their Book...
Litstack Recs| The Vexations & Pet
The Vexations: a novel, by Caitlin Horrocks The lives of artists should portray artmaking for the work it is, anything...
LitStack Recs: Women in Their Beds & Luna: New Moon
Women in Their Beds — Gina Berriault To cap off #ShortStoryMonth, my rec this week revisits a collection by one...
Litstack Rec | A Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock & Boy Erased
A Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock, by Francois Truffaut, trans. by Helen Scott (1966)& Hitchcock/Truffaut, a documentary film by Kent...
Litstack Rec | New titles from WTAW Press & Ninth Metal
New Titles From WTAW Press The Groundhog Forever, by Henry Hoke Mark this month's celebration of pride with the queer sequel...
Litstack Rec | Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend & The Perfume Collector
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges Anna May Wong was the first...
