The Love of A Good Woman, Stories by Alice Munro The short story has few …
LitStack Recs
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, …
Litstack Recs | Selected Stories & Before the Ruins
Selected Stories, by William Trevor A volume of stories by William Trevor is a reader’s …
Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout “Stories about women in houses are the real stories of …
Stoner, by John Williams When it was first published, John Williams’ 1965 novel went out …
Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett Of divorce, Nicole Krauss wrote, “One of us held on to …
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade, by …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Litstack Recs – Dreams From My Father & Wendy Darling
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama On August …
Less, by Andrew Sean Greer Less, the sixth book and fifth novel by Andrew Sean …
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray July 18 marks the 210th birthday of William Makepeace …
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 …
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 …
The Vexations: a novel, by Caitlin Horrocks The lives of artists should portray artmaking for …
Women in Their Beds — Gina Berriault To cap off #ShortStoryMonth, my rec this week …
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 …
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 …
Litstack Recs | The Love of A Good Woman & Project Hail Mary
The Love of A Good Woman, Stories by Alice Munro The short story has few …
Litstack Recs: The Dead Fish Museum: Stories & Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories, by Charles D’Ambrosio A classic read for #shortstorymonth is Charles …
Litstack Rec | Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays & Yes, Chef
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, by Zadie Smith This collection came about by accident, Zadie …
Litstack Recs | The Custom of the Country & Shakespeare in Kabul
The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton I knew from the start that things …
Litstack Recs | The Good Soldier & D (A Tale of Two Worlds)
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford If this novel had been published under the …
Litstack Recs | The Clothing of Books & Remote Control
The Clothing of Books, by Jhumpa Lahiri “How do you clothe a book?” is the …
The Places In-Between, by Rory Stewart In 2002, Rory Stewart made a walk across Afghanistan …
Litstack Recs |Out of Place: A Memoir & Unless
Out of Place: A Memoir, by Edward Said Edward Said, the prolific author, political activist, …
Litstack Recs | Orphans: Essays & When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Orphans: Essays, by Charles D’Ambrosio Hold a copy of Orphans in your hand, and its …
Litstack Recs | Passage to Ararat & LaRose
Passage to Ararat, by Michael J. Arlen During the Armenian genocide, 1.2 million Armenians were …
Blue Nights, by Joan Didion Blue Nights is a counterpart to Didion’s 2005 memoir, The …
The Empty Family: Stories by Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín’s 2011 collection, The Empty Family is …
Litstack Recs | The Films in My Life & The Space Between Worlds
The Films in My Life, by Francois Truffaut We are lucky that Francois Truffaut was …
Litstack Recs |Paris Stories & Slow River
Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant When the great story writer Mavis Gallant died, I thought …
Litstack Rec |Desperate Characters & Luster
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox This classic of literary fiction, written in 1970, is also …
The 400 Blows, by Francois Truffaut 2019 marked the 60th anniversary of the release of …
Litstack Recs | 2021 Reading List & The Murderbot Diaries
New year, new books—and these are some of the ones I’m looking forward to in …
Litstack Recs | The Oysters of Locmariaquer, by Eleanor Clark
The Oysters of Locmariaquer, by Eleanor Clark Late in Eleanor Clark’s extraordinary book, she tells …
Litstack Recs | The MoneyBunny Series & Shades of Milk and Honey
The MoneyBunny Series The internationally acclaimed MoneyBunnies Series, by Canadian author and illustrator Cinders McLeod, …
Litstack Recs| Selected Stories & The Once and Future Witches
Selected Stories, by William Trevor A volume of stories by William Trevor is a reader’s …
Litstack Recs | How to Grow Old Disgracefully: An Autobiography &
How to Grow Old Disgracefully: An Autobiography, by Hermione Gingold If you’re a fan of …
Litstack Recs | There There: A novel & Pacific Storm
There There: A novel, by Tommy Orange Brilliant. Innovative. Lyric. Tommy Orange’s stunning fiction debut …
Litstack Recs | Changing My Mind & Time Salvager
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, by Zadie Smith This collection of essays came about by …
Litstack Recs | Current WTAW Press Titles & Other Americans
Current WTAW Press Titles WTAW Press has two great 2019 titles, Chimerica, the debut novel …
Less, by Andrew Sean Greer Less, the sixth book and fifth novel by Andrew Sean …
Litstack Recs | Manhood for Amateurs & Ormeshadow
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, essays by …
Litstack Recs | Thunderstruck & Other Stories & A Fort of Nine Towers
Thunderstruck & Other Stories, by Elizabeth McCracken Early on in Elizabeth McCracken’s extraordinary story collection, …
Car Trouble by Robert Rorke As Car Trouble opens, it’s one a.m., and the novel’s …
Sophie’s Choice, by William Styron In 1979, John Gardner wrote in his review of Sophie’s …
Middlemarch, by George Eliot The first thing I knew about Middlemarch, George Eliot’s classic novel, …
Litstack Recs | The Refugees – Stories & The Orphan Master’s Son
The Refugees: Stories, by Viet Thanh Nguyen If you’re a fan of The Sympathizer, the …