Litstack Recs | Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays & Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, by Zadie Smith As an essay reader, and writer, I always hope to make a...
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, by Zadie Smith As an essay reader, and writer, I always hope to make a...
Available now, from leading Arthurian authority John Matthews and Tolkien illustrator John Howe, comes the definitive collection of stories about...
A while back I was fortunate to read, in close succession, three masterful works in the science fiction/fantasy genre that...
The Wrong End of the Telescope: a novel by Rabih Alameddine Rabih Alameddine’s sixth book, which earlier this year won...
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, by Eleanor Perényi Writing and gardening share similarities: the same dogged tending, the...
The Love of a Good Woman, stories by Alice Munro The short story has few practitioners skilled as Alice Munro,...
The Films in My Life, by Francois Truffaut We are lucky that Francois Truffaut was both a prolific filmmaker and...
Two Titles From WTAW Press The Groundhog Forever, by Henry Hoke In Henry Hoke's debut novel, two film students in...
The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford If this novel had been published under the title the author selected, "The...
The UnAmericans: Stories by Molly Antopol There’s a literary lineage to the strands of Jewish American literary tradition, contemporary and...
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Locus Awards, announced on Saturday during the virtual Locus Awards Weekend. MCed by...
Less, a novel: by Andrew Sean Greer Less, the author's sixth book and fifth novel, is a jewel-box of a...
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, by Alysia Abbott “The truth is,” Alysia Abbott writes in her debut memoir, Fairyland:...
ABOUT TROUBLE WITH THE CURSED Congratulations to Kim Harrison on the launch of the latest title in her Hollows series, Trouble...
The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton I knew from the start that things would go badly for Ralph Marvell. He’s...
A Writer’s Notebook by Somerset Maugham Like most writers, I keep a notebook—not a journal, but a record of ideas,...
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan William Finnegan’s 2016 memoir begins with an epigraph from Edward St. Aubyn’s...
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee "Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
The Drifters, by James Michener In middle school, I was curious about the 1971 bestseller on my mother's bookshelf, but Not...
Without: Poems, by Donald Hall It doesn’t matter what I’m doing or what time of day or night it is,...
There’s a scene in Reality Bites (1994) where the main characters sing Scholastic Rock songs after their college graduation. The...
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, A Novel by Ocean Vuong “One does not ‘pass’ in America, it seems, without English.”...
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges For fans of Anna May Wong,...
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries, by Emma Thompson With Sunday's 94th Academy Awards coming up, here's a look...
Dear LitStackers, the Independent Press Awards 2022 have been awarded and my TBR list is filling up with titles from...
Shout Her Lovely Name, by Natalie Serber In the title story to Natalie Serber’s debut story collection, the narrator offers...
The Empathy Exams: Essays, by Leslie Jamison The Empathy Exams is a hybrid work of memoir, literary, cultural, and moral...
Out of Place: A Memoir, by Edward Said Edward Said, the prolific author, political activist, pianist, and music critic, rose...
Arranged Marriage: Stories, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The eleven stories in Arranged Marriage reveal Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s gift for chronicling...
Setting is character. That’s what a wonderful writer friend of mine, Robin LaFevers, told me when I was struggling with...
I’ve been writing since I was a kid. (That’s a very long time. I’m old, y’all). Being a published writer...
Among the terrific releases from indie publishers this month is Leslie Kirk Campbell’s debut story collection, The Man with Eight...
This Boy’s Life: A Memoir, by Tobias Wolff First published in 1989, Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life has since become a...
The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs, stories by Leslie Kirk Campbell Sarabande Books (February 1, 2022)Paperback, 240 pagesEAN/UPC -...
The Coast of Chicago: Stories by Stuart Dybek I can still recall first reading Stuart Dybek’s classic short story “We...
The Portable Veblen, by Elizabeth Mckenzie By way of Anne Lamott, we know the novelist Ethan Canin once remarked, “Nothing...
Tinkers, by Paul Harding Paul Harding's Tinkers, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010, tells of George Washington Crosby, a...
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, by Alysia Abbott “The truth is," Alysia Abbot writes in her debut memoir, Fairyland:...
As an avid science fiction reader, in 2011 I picked up a copy of James S.A. Corey’s Leviathan Wakes, a...
Six memorable debuts of literary fiction and nonfiction Disappearing Earth, by Julia Phlllips In Julia Phillips’ 2019 debut, two sisters...
Little Failure: A Memoir, by Gary Shteyngart "In order for me to be born," Gary Shteyngart says early on in...
When I browsed my local library today, I saw something that never would have existed when I was a kid...
Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, by Emma Straub Those captivated by Old Hollywood will surely love Emma Straub’s debut novel,...
Congratulations to #1 New York Times bestseller Victoria Aveyard on the gorgeous cover reveal of book two in her Realm...
Light Years, by James Salter First published in 1975, this novel is considered among James Salter's most enduring. Known for...
The Oysters of Locmariaquer, by Eleanor Clark Late in Eleanor Clark’s extraordinary book, she tells us the oyster needs the...
How to Read to Read a Sentence and How to Write One, by Stanley Fish When I'm reading, the sentence...
Time wears away at memory, it leaves behind what was important, and you were happy. That is what remains. The...
The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain A Classic for #NovemberNoir James M. Cain never spoke like his...
Coming next summer from Tarryn Fisher, AN HONEST LIE. Check out the cover reveal below and pre-order your copy today....