Litstack Rec |Desperate Characters & Luster
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox Desperate Characters, recent edition. This classic of literary fiction, written in 1970, is also a...
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Litstack Recs | The 400 Blows & Hamnet
The 400 Blows, by Francois Truffaut 2019 marked the 60th anniversary of the release of Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows,...
Litstack Recs|Delayed Rays of a Star & Slay
Delayed Rays of a Star, by Amanda Lee Koe At a New Year's Eve ball in 1928, the German-born American...
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 2021. My Year Abroad, by...
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 us the oyster needs the...
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, are the perfect books for...
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 must-have, and this 2009 collection...
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 classic films, say, Vincente Minnelli’s...
Litstack Recs | There There: A novel & Pacific Storm
There There: A novel, by Tommy Orange Brilliant. Innovative. Lyric. Tommy Orange's stunning fiction debut is all those things, but...
Litstack Recs | Changing My Mind & Time Salvager
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, by Zadie Smith This collection of essays came about by accident, Zadie Smith tells us...
Litstack Recs | Current WTAW Press Titles & Other Americans
Current WTAW Press Titles WTAW Press has two great 2019 titles, Chimerica, the debut novel from Anita Fellicelli, and Like...
Litstack Recs | Less & The Sol Majestic
Less, by Andrew Sean Greer Less, the sixth book and fifth novel by Andrew Sean Greer, is a jewel-box of...
Litstack Recs | Manhood for Amateurs & Ormeshadow
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, essays by Michael Chabon There are some...
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, Thunderstruck, a grieving mother instructs...
Litstack Recs | Sophie’s Choice & Hearts of Oak
Sophie’s Choice, by William Styron In 1979, John Gardner wrote in his review of Sophie's Choice, “guilt is everywhere,” a...
Litstack Recs | Middlemarch & The Expanse Series
Middlemarch, by George Eliot The first thing I knew about Middlemarch, George Eliot’s classic novel, was the ending. The year...
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 debut novel by Viet Thanh...
Litstack Rec | Earn It & Class A
Earn It! by Cinders McLeod This is the perfect book for young readers on your list, because it's never too...
Litstack Rec | Brooklyn & Miranda and Caliban
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin's 2009 novel, which won that year's Costa Award, is a lovely and haunting story set...
Litstack Recs | Epilogue – A Memoir & The Grind
Epilogue: A Memoir, by Will Boast Both a remembrance and a elegiac account of the loss of a family, Boast’s...
Litstack Rec |An Unnecessary Woman & John Saturnall’s Feast
An Unnecessary Woman, by Rabih Alameddine “I like outsiders,” Aaliya Sohbi tells us, “phantoms wandering the cobwebbed halls of the...
Litstack Recs | #StayHome Summer Reads & The Resisters
The summer of 2020 is unlike those past—no traveling, no baseball games, limited beach and park time, if any, and...
LitStack Recs | Space Opera & Fear: Trump in the White House
Space Opera, by Catherynne Valente Having recently watched the surprisingly good Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga on...
Litstack Recs: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel & Tranny
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee "Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
Litstack Recs | AUTHOR – The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan & Life on Mars
Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan, with a foreword by Salman Rushdie. Beowulf Sheehan, the literary world’s foremost photographer, has...
Litstack Recs |Three classics of Writing Craft & The Poet X
If you're devoting some of your stay-at-home to a work-in-progress, here are three classics of writing craft to see you...
Litstack Rec |Delayed Rays of a Star & Feed
Delayed Rays of a Star, by Amanda Lee Koe At a New Year's Eve ball in 1928, the German-born American...
Litstack Recs| Ship Fever & A Wild Sheep Chase
Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett The eight stories in Andrea Barrett's 1996 story collection, which won that year's National...
Litstack Recs|There There & The Expanse Series
There There: A novel, by Tommy Orange Brilliant, innovative, lyric. Tommy Orange's stunning fiction debut is all those things, but...
Litstack Recs | Commonwealth & Otaku
Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett Of divorce, Nicole Krauss wrote, "One of us held on to the ambition of the one...
Litstack Recs |Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend & Exit West
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges Anna May Wong was the first...
Litstack Recs |The Good Soldier & The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford If this novel had been published under the title the author chose, The...
Litstack Recs |Spielberg, Truffaut and Me & Glow
Spielberg, Truffaut and Me: An Actor's Diary, by Bob Balaban With the Pentagon's recent release of three unclassified videos of...
Litstack Recs | WTAW Press 2019 ebooks & Cyber Shogun Revolution
WTAW Press 2019 Titles WTAW Press released two great titles in 2019, Chimerica, the debut novel from Anita Fellicelli, and...
Litstack rec | Vanity Fair & The Stars Are Legion
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray The early nineteenth century didn’t have reality television, but it did have William Makepeace...
Litstack Recs | Little Failure & Chosen Ones
Little Failure: A Memoir, by Gary Shteyngart "In order for me to be born," Gary Shteyngart says early on in...
Litstack Recs |The Clothing of Books & The Sisters Grimm
The Clothing of Books, by Jhumpa Lahiri “How do you clothe a book?” is the how this small, but powerful...
Litstack rec | The Way We Live Now & The Red
As you read this you may, like me, be working from home, while your partner is doing the same, and...
Litstack Recs| How to Write an Autobiographical Novel & A Song for a New Day
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee "Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
LitStack Recs: Car Trouble & Ninth House
Car Trouble: A novel, by Robert Rorke As Car Trouble opens, the novel’s young protagonist, teenaged Nicky Flynn, is driving...
LitStack Recs: Great Expectations & The Dead Fish Museum
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens Narrated by Eddie Izzard I will admit that in a life full of fondness for...
LitStack Recs: Stoner & Atlas Alone
Stoner, by John Williams When it was first published, John Williams’ 1965 novel went out of print after selling only...
LitStack Recs: This Is How You Lose the Time War & The UnAmericans
This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone In this extraordinary novella, two warring...
Litstack recs | The Marriage Plot, by Jeffery Eugenides
The Marriage Plot, by Jeffery Eugenides “Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.” That ironic reflection comes early in...
Litstack Recs: The Vexations & Pet
The Vexations: a novel, by Caitlin Horrocks The lives of artists must portray artmaking for what it is: work—anything else...
Litstack Recs: The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries & LaRose
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries, by Emma Thompson Emma Thompson's diary tracks the making of the award-winning Sense...
Litstack Recs: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays & Wintering
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee “Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
Litstack Rec: The Vexations and The Lost Child of Lychford
The Vexations, by Caitlin Horrocks One of my favorites books of this year, Caitlin Horrock's debut novel, The Vexations, is...
Litstack Rec: The Dead Fish Museum & Suicide Woods
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories, by Charles D'Ambrosio Charles D'Ambrosio's 2006 story collection, The Dead Fish Museum, is set in...
LitStack Rec: This Boy’s Life and Landscape With Invisible Hand
This Boy's Life: A Memoir, by Tobias Wolff First published in 1989, Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life has become a classic...
