The “Wheel of Time” and My Complex Relationship with the Epic Series
This LitStack Rec not only examines character building but also some of the challenging aspects of gender portrayal in the...
Opinion
Recommendations and Reflections | The Tower of Babel Story in SFF Fiction
In the Old Testament, the tale of the Tower of Babel is only nine short verses long. More an aside...
The Incredible Tolkien-ness of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
I had love expectations for Amazon’s Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. It is based mostly on the...
Curating Your Reading
One of the things about being a writer is that in some ways, you never leave school. Textbooks, grades, and...
Miserable Fiction
I was reading a book the other day. It was a very good book, extremely well written, very imaginative. The...
In Praise of Difficult Genre Fiction
A while back I was fortunate to read, in close succession, three masterful works in the science fiction/fantasy genre that...
Celebrating PRIDE Month: A Dozen LGBTQA SciFi/Fantasy Books I Would Highly Recommend
As a middle-aged, monogamous white CIS woman, it may seem strange that I’m recommending LGBTQA books in the scifi/fantasy genre...
Staff Rec: The Clothing of Books & Boy Erased
The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri "How do you clothe a book?" is the how this small, but powerful...
Bond Instead of Ban
I confess that I was one of those mothers. You know the type, the one who screened everything my kids...
The Heartache We Take As Normal
There is a baby in my home. Evidence of his existence is littered around us, blocking the sparse surroundings with...
Remembering Carrie Fisher
An Actress, Yes, But Also an Amazing Writer I first came across Carrie Fisher, as so many of us did,...
OpEd: The Varying Poverties of Now
The Varying Poverties of Now In the appendix to his brief but radiant 2010 manifesto ‘Reality Hunger’—a supremely confident and...
Traveling Light: Unpacking a Story
So there I am, in a small hotel between the Costa Brava and Sitges, once again unpacking the bag I’ve...
LitStack Recs: Pushcart Prize 38 & Leviathan Wakes
Pushcart Prize 38: Best of the Small Presses, ed. by Bill Henderson Now in its thirty-eighth year, the Pushcart Prize...
LitStack’s Recs: Shakespeare’s Sonnets & Writing Inspiration
William Shakespeare The Sonnets It may be a day late to pin this recommendation to the 450th anniversary of the...
Thanking the Gatekeepers – One Writer’s Views on the Advantages of Traditional Publishing
Paolo Bacigalupi is an award winning science fiction writer. Author of the amazing book, The Windup Girl (which won the...
Op Ed: The Wheelbarrows of Violence
The Wheelbarrows of Violence After missing a 7:15am train on my way upstate last Saturday, I was talking to a...
