Horror is a kind of hybrid form that depends on shock, fear, and sometimes repulsion, while literary fiction is driven by character and language, and as flash with its concision and intensity, the scary story takes on a fresh shape.
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Litstack Recs | The Refugees, Stories by Viet Thanh Nguyen & The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
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How Fiction Works, by James Wood. When it comes to books on the craft of…
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From dressing up for Halloween, to donning appropriate period attire for the local Renaissance Festival,…
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Desperate Characters, by Paula Fox This classic of literary fiction, written in 1970, is also…
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One of our favorite thing about literature is the impact it has on our…
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The Sheltering Sky, by Paul Bowles Bowles is one of my favorite writers. His prose…
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Litstack Recs | We the Animals & Kitchens of the Great Midwest
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I was reading a book the other day. It was a very good book, extremely…
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Litstack Recs| How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One & We Were Dreamers
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A while back I was fortunate to read, in close succession, three masterful works in…
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Litstack Recs | The Wrong End of the Telescope & Company Town
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With Wesley Chu coming out with his newest amazing book The Art of Prophecy, it…
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Litstack Recs | Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden & The Last Wish – Introducing the Witcher
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This week we continue our celebration of our August Featured Author, Wesley Chu with a…
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Litstack Recs| The Love of a Good Woman & The Red
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Featured Author Review: The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
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Litstack Recs | The Films in My Life & Six-Gun Snow White
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Litstack Recs | Two titles from WTAW Press & Ninefox Gambit
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Litstack Recs | The Good Soldier & If You Build It…
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Litstack Recs | The UnAmericans & All the Horses of Iceland
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Less, a novel: by Andrew Sean Greer Less, the author’s sixth book and fifth novel,…
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Litstack Recs | Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father & Time Salvager
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Litstack Recs | The Custom of the Country & The Resisters
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A Writer’s Notebook by Somerset Maugham Like most writers, I keep a notebook—not a journal,…
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Litstack Recs | Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life & Monarca
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!Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan William Finnegan’s 2016 memoir begins with an…
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Litstack Recs | How to Write an Autobiographical Novel & When Women Were Dragons
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The Drifters, by James Michener In middle school, I was curious about the 1971 bestseller on…
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Delayed Rays of a Star, by Amanda Lee Koe At a New Year’s Eve ball…
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my name on his tongue, by Laila Halaby Laila Halaby’s, my name on his tongue,…
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Litstack Recs | Without: Poems & The Kaiju Preservation Society
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