Litstack Rec: Earn It! and Viva Frida
Earn It! by Cinders McLeod This is the perfect gift for young readers on your list, because it's never too...
Earn It! by Cinders McLeod This is the perfect gift for young readers on your list, because it's never too...
The Romanoffs, by Matthew Weiner The thing I love most about linked story collections is the strategy of slow accrual....
An Unnecessary Woman, by Rabih Alameddine “I like outsiders,” Aaliya Sohbi tells us, “phantoms wandering the cobwebbed halls of the...
Two New Titles from WTAW Press Northern California's newest independent press has just released its 2018 titles: Unnatural Habitats and...
Bridge, by Robert Thomas “Welcome to the prayer-strewn pews of my brain,” Alice, the narrator of Bridge tells us, and...
By Nightfall, by Michael Cunningham Peter and Rebecca Harris are forty-something New Yorkers, well-off, hip, empty-nesters. Peter is an art...
Little Failure: A Memoir, by Gary Shteyngart "In order for me to be born," Gary Shteyngart says early on in...
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries, by Emma Thompson There's enough left of summer to fit in at least...
A House For Mr Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul This past week, we lost a giant when V.S. Naipaul died in...
The Tall Book of Make-Believe ed. Jane Werner Illustrated by Garth Williams Well beyond the age it's intended for, this...
The Refugees: Stories, by Viet Thanh Nguyen Fans of The Sympathizer, Nguyen's debut novel that won the Pulitzer Prize in...
How to Read to Read a Sentence and How to Write One, by Stanley Fish For writers, the sentence is...
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople, by Patrick Leigh Fermor A classic of the travel memoir genre, A...
The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek May is Short Story Month, so this month I'll be looking at story...
Passage to Ararat, by Michael J. Arlen Tuesday, April 24, marked a sober anniversary, 103 years since the Armenian genocide,...
Earn It! by Cinders McLeod (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2017) Teaching children financial literacy—knowing how money works and having the skills...
Patrimony: A True Story, by Philip Roth Roth's 1991 memoir charts the illness and death of his father, Herman Roth,...
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, by Eleanor Perényi If you're a writer who gardens, Eleanor Perényi writes in...
The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen Even though it's spring, there may be snow and frigid temperatures outside...
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 Acclaimed poet, novelist, and story writer Chitra Banerjee Divrakaruni’s first book of fiction...
Epilogue: A Memoir, by Will Boast Both a remembrance and a elegiac account of the loss of a family, Boast's...
The Oysters of Locmariaquer, by Eleanor Clark Late in Eleanor Clark’s extraordinary book, she tells us the oyster needs the...
The Films in My Life, by Francois Truffaut The revered French filmmaker, who would have been eighty-six this year, is...
Thunderstruck & Other Stories, by Elizabeth McCracken Early on in Elizabeth McCracken’s extraordinary story collection, Thunderstruck, a grieving mother instructs...
Selected Stories, by William Trevor A volume of stories by William Trevor is a reader's must-have, and this 2009 collection...
Spielberg, Truffaut and Me: An Actor's Diary, by Bob Balaban In the summer of 1976, during the first weeks of...
Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories, by Michael Chabon Not all scary stories are for Halloween. Michael Chabon's, Werewolves in Their...
Life Drawing, by Robin Black “Nobody outside a marriage can understand it,” the narrator of Life Drawing tells us. Augusta...
Are books, and stories, getting better? That is, are they getting richer, stronger, and more compelling? My answer is an...
Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood, by Teri Garr Think of Teri Garr, the legendary actress turns 70 on December 11,...
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges Don’t be misled by the tabloid...
At the November 15th National Book Awards, Jesmyn Ward was awarded her second prize in the Fiction category for her...
And There was Evening And There Was Morning, Essays on Illness, Loss, and Love, by Mike Smith (WTAW Press) “Mourning,”...
The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt The reception Donna Tartt garnered for her third novel—it washer first in twelve years—was called...
Jerusalem: A Cookbook, by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi Some cookbooks are defined by a generation. Your grandmother’s shelf likely...
Out of Place: A Memoir, by Edward Said Edward Said, the prolific author, political activist, pianist, and critic who would...
Blood Will Out, by Walter Kirn In Preston Sturges’ romantic comedy, “The Palm Beach Story,” Claudette Colbert plays Gerry, reluctant...
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan William Finnegan's 2016 memoir begins with an epigraph from Edward St. Aubyn's...
Little Failure: A Memoir, by Gary Shteyngart "In order for me to be born," Gary Shteyngart says early on in...
The Lesson of the Master, by Henry James Colm Tóibín, in his introduction to the 2007 edition of Henry James'...
The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome, by Gordon Campbell You may not know it, but...
Count it as a good thing whenever books make a crossover into the everyday. And that would include this recent...
The Marriage Plot, by Jeffery Eugenides “Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.” That ironic reflection comes early the...
An Unnecessary Woman, by Rabih Alameddine “I like outsiders,” Aaliya Sohbi tells us, “phantoms wandering the cobwebbed halls of the...
The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford If this novel had been published under the title the author selected, The...
Desperate Characters, by Paula Fox This classic of literary fiction, first published in 1970, serves too as a classic example...
Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett Of divorce, Nicole Krauss wrote, "One of us held on to the ambition of the one...
The Portable Veblen, by Elizabeth McKenzie By way of Anne Lamott, we know the novelist Ethan Canin once remarked, “Nothing...
Stoner, by John Williams John Williams’ 1965 novel went out of print after selling only 2,000 copies, but since its...