LitStack Recs: Books About Actors and Film & Ancillary Justice
As the summer film season approaches, here are three books—a memoir, a novel, and a book-length interview—that offer a look...
As the summer film season approaches, here are three books—a memoir, a novel, and a book-length interview—that offer a look...
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges Don’t be misled by the tabloid...
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, by Zadie Smith This collection of essays came about by accident, Zadie Smith tells us...
Life Would be Perfect if I Lived in That House, by Meghan Daum The moral of this story might run...
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan William Finnegan's 2016 memoir begins with an epigraph from Edward St. Aubyn's...
Bridge, by Robert Thomas “Welcome to the prayer-strewn pews of my brain,” Alice, the narrator of Bridge tells us, and...
The Places In-Between, by Rory Stewart In 2002, Rory Stewart made a walk across Afghanistan from Herat to Kabul. A...
Out of Place: A Memoir, by Edward Said Edward Said, the prolific author, political activist, pianist, and critic rose to...
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, essays by Michael Chabon The trope of...
The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen Dig out your angora muffler and your ski gloves, because the temperature...
This Boy's Life: A Memoir, by Tobias Wolff First published in 1989, Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life has since become a...
Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy Hardy's novel of romantic entanglements and farming rural life, set in fictional...
Nora Webster by Colm Tóibín At the heart of Colm Tóibín's new novel is the story of a woman, a story,...
Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures by Emma Straub Readers captivated by Old Hollywood are sure to love Emma Straub’s debut...
Dreams From My Father, by Barack Obama Stories that center on fathers have a distinct place in the memoir genre....
The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford If this novel had been published under the title the author selected, The...
Spielberg, Truffaut and Me - An Actor's Diary, by Bob Balaban In the summer of 1976, during the first weeks...
The Firefox Book, by Elliot Wigginton (editor) A perfect book for #throwbackthursday, this compendium of customs and rural living practices...
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan William Finnegan took his time writing this memoir. An international journalist and...
Blood Will Out, by Walter Kirn In Preston Sturges’ romantic comedy, “The Palm Beach Story,” Claudette Colbert plays Gerry, reluctant...
Blue Nights, by Joan Didion Joan Didion's books have had a titanic effect on me, but when Blue Nights came out in...
The Lesson of the Master, by Henry James Colm Tóibín, in his introduction to the 2007 edition of Henry James'...
LitStack recently sat down with writer, editor—and now indie publisher—Peg Alford Pursell, a literary community builder with a grand...
Paris Stories, by Mavis Gallant In this month of celebrating the short story (#ShortStoryMonth), there must be mention of one...
Who Do You Love: Stories, by Jean Thompson May is #ShortStoryMonth, and this is third in a series of LitStackRecs...
The Love of A Good Woman, stories by Alice Munro The short story has few practitioners as skilled as Alice...
Thunderstruck & Other Stories, by Elizabeth McCracken With April declared National Poetry Month, May is now officially Short Story Month,...
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays Zadie Smith This collection of essays came about by accident, Zadie Smith tells us in...
How to Read a Sentence and How to Write One, by Stanley Fish The sentence is the coin of the...
The Empty Family, by Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín's story collection, The Empty Family (released January 4, 2011) is one I...
The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton I knew from the start that things would go badly for Ralph Marvell....
Spielberg, Truffaut and Me: An Actor's Diary, by Bob Balaban In the summer of 1976, during the first weeks of...
Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy First published in 1874, Hardy's novel of romantic entanglements and farming rural...
The Films in My Life, by Francois Truffaut This past week, Francois Truffaut would have turned 84. The revered French...
Bridge, by Robert Thomas “Welcome to the prayer-strewn pews of my brain,” Alice, the narrator of Bridge tells us, and...
Desperate Characters, by Paula Fox This classic of literary fiction, first published in 1970, is also a classic example of...
Stoner, by John Williams John Williams’ 1965 novel went out of print after selling only 2,000 copies, but since its...
A Definitive study of Alfred Hitchcock, by Francois Truffaut, trans. by Helen Scott (1966) & Hitchcock/Truffaut, a documentary film by...
2016 Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses, edited by Bill Henderson with Pushcart Prize editors There are best-of...
Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place, by Annie Proulx The memoir by this award-winning novelist (The Shipping News) and story writer...
Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays, by William Styron Though William Styron is best know for his novels (The Confessions of...
Patrimony: A True Story, by Philip Roth Roth's 1991 memoir charts the illness and death of his father, Herman Roth,...
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople, by Patrick Leigh Fermor A classic of the travel memoir genre, A...
Cutting Teeth, by Julia Fierro When October comes, I'm always caught off guard by how quickly summer has gone. Afternoons...
A Writer’s Notebook by Somerset Maugham Somerset Maugham's A Writer’s Notebook was first published in 1949, and though his work...
The Places In-Between, Rory Stewart In 2002, Rory Stewart made a walk across Afghanistan from Herat to Kabul. A scholar...
Blue Nights, by Joan Didion Joan Didion is an author I've long revered, whose books have had a titanic effect...
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray The mid-nineteenth century didn’t have reality television, but it did have William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity...
The Presidential Summer Reading List As The Hill reported last week, President Barack Obama chose six books to read during...
A Brief Look at Father Memoirs Stories that center on fathers have a distinct place in the memoir genre. For...