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Elsewhere, A Memoir Richard Russo For lack of better word, Richard Russo says, he calls…
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LitStack Recs: Little Failure: A Memoir & The Company
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Little Failure: A Memoir, by Gary Shteyngart “In order for me to be born,” Gary…
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Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel This recommendation is of a book I’ve not yet finished, or…
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LitStack Recs: Fairyland & Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
by Tee Tateby Tee TateSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, by Alysia Abbott “The truth is,” Alysia Abbot writes…
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Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin’s 2009 novel, which won that year’s Costa Award, is a…
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A Writer’s Notebook by Somerset Maugham Like most writers, I keep a notebook. It’s small…
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LitStack Recs: Ship Fever: Stories & The Tyrant’s Law
by Tee Tateby Tee TateSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Ship Fever: Stories, by Andrea Barrett It’s been called the Oscars of the book world, and…
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LitStack Recs: Desperate Characters & The Master Butcher’s Singing Club
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Desperate Characters, by Paula Fox. This classic of literary fiction, written in 1970, is also…
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The Master, by Colm Tóibín I was only a page or so into Colm Tóibín’s…
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The Android’s Dream John Scalzi With the announcement of John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series…
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There’s something about settings of the past that just grabs us. We love the escapist…
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LitStack Recs: 13, rue Thérèse & The Tall Book of Make-Believe
by Tee Tateby Tee TateSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!13, rue Thérèse Elena Mauli Shapiro 13, rue Thérèse is a most singular novel: perhaps not…
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LitStack Rec: Knuckleball Ned & I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
by Tee Tateby Tee TateSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Knuckleball Ned R.A. Dickey Tuesday night was Major League Baseball’s All Star Game, and in…
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The Last Light of the Sun Guy Gavriel Kay The recent news of author Guy…
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Wonder Woman Unbound The Curious History of the World’s Most Famous Heroine Tim Hanley College…
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Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy Hardy’s novel of romantic entanglements and farming…
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Litstack Rec: My Misspent Youth & Down to the Last Pitch
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!My Misspent Youth, essays by Meghan Daum My introduction to Daum and her essays was…
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LitStack Rec: Dept. of Speculation and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Dept. of Speculation, by Jenny Offill With the release of Jenny Offill’s acclaimed second novel,…
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LitStack Recs: A Definitive study of Alfred Hitchcock and The Devil’s Snake Curve
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!A Definitive study of Alfred Hitchcock, by Francois Truffaut (trans. by Helen Scott). Before he…
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LitStack Recs: Pushcart Prize 38 & Leviathan Wakes
by Tee Tateby Tee TateSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Pushcart Prize 38: Best of the Small Presses, ed. by Bill Henderson Now in its…
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LitStack Recs: Werewolves and Karate Chop
by Tee Tateby Tee TateSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories, by Michael Chabon Not all scary stories are for Halloween.…
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LitStack Recs: Queen Sugar & Life Would be Perfect if I Lived in That House
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Life Would be Perfect if I Lived in That House, by Meghan Daum The moral…
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Vivian Maier: Street Photographer by Vivian Maier (Author), John Maloof (Editor), Geoff Dyer (Contributor) For…
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LitStack’s Recs: Shakespeare’s Sonnets & Writing Inspiration
by Tee Tateby Tee TateSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!William ShakespeareThe Sonnets It may be a day late to pin this recommendation to the…
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Women in Their Beds — Gina Berriault Her admirers include Richard Ford, Grace Paley and…
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LitStack Rec: ‘Fruits & Vegetables’ and ‘Renascence and Other Poems’
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Fruits & Vegetables Erica Jong Long before Fear of Flying, before Erica Jong’s now-classic novel…
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LitStack Rec: ‘Chicago’ and ‘To This Day’
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!One of the best definitions of magical realism I’ve read comes from Debra Spark. In…
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LitStack Recs: Memoirs of Place and The Dinosaur Heresies
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!On Memoirs of Place: A Quick List I always appreciate a good memoir that centers…
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LitStack Recs: Light Years and The Mists of Avalon
by Tee Tateby Tee TateSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Light Years James Salter First published in 1975, this novel is considered among the most…
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LitStack Rec: ‘Spring and All’ and ‘Honest Dogs’
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanSubscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Subscribe to our NewsletterForm Submission is restrictedForm is successfully submitted. Thank you!Spring and All, William Carlos Willams In a frenzy that could have only taken…
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LitStack Rec: Blue Highways and Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies
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