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Lauren Alwan
Lauren Alwan
Lauren Alwan’s fiction has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, the Southern Review, the Alaska Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, in the Bellevue Literary Review. She is the recipient of a First Pages Prize, the Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, and.a citation of Notable in Best American Essays. Her essays have appeared in ZYZZYVA, Catapult, World Literature Today, The Rumpus, The Millions, Writer's Digest, and others. She is a prose editor at the museum of americana, an online literary review. Follow her on Twitter at @lauren_alwan and learn more at www.laurenalwan.com
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LitStack Recs: Bartleby, The Scrivener & The Emperor’s Blades
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanBartleby, the Scrivener, by Herman Melville Overworked employees, endless legal documents to be copied, the …
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A Brief Look at the British Travel Memoir
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanThree authors linked by the British tradition of going by foot and writing about it. …
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LitStack Recs: The Custom of the Country & The Quick
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanThe Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton I knew from the start that things …
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Books on my 2015 TBR List The new year has arrived. So has a new …
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LitStack Recs: Favorite Reads of 2014 & Wolf in White Van
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanMy Favorite Reads of 2014 So many great books this year makes a tiered list …
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LitStack Recs: The Empathy Exams & The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanThe Empathy Exams: Essays, by Leslie Jamison 2014 is being called the year of the …
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LitStack Rec: Havanas in Camelot & Wayward Saints
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanHavanas in Camelot: Personal Essays, by William Styron Though William Styron is best know for …
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LitStack Recs: Little Failure: A Memoir & The Company
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanLittle Failure: A Memoir, by Gary Shteyngart “In order for me to be born,” Gary …
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Litstack Rec: My Misspent Youth & Down to the Last Pitch
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanMy Misspent Youth, essays by Meghan Daum My introduction to Daum and her essays was …
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LitStack Rec: Dept. of Speculation and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanDept. of Speculation, by Jenny Offill With the release of Jenny Offill’s acclaimed second novel, …
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LitStack Recs: A Definitive study of Alfred Hitchcock and The Devil’s Snake Curve
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanA Definitive study of Alfred Hitchcock, by Francois Truffaut (trans. by Helen Scott). Before he …
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LitStack Recs: The Firefox Book & Three Parts Dead
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanThe Firefox Book, by Elliot Wigginton (editor) Perfect for #throwbackthursday, this compendium of customs and …
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LitStack Rec: ‘Fruits & Vegetables’ and ‘Renascence and Other Poems’
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanFruits & Vegetables Erica Jong Long before Fear of Flying, before Erica Jong’s now-classic novel …
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LitStack Rec: ‘Chicago’ and ‘To This Day’
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanOne of the best definitions of magical realism I’ve read comes from Debra Spark. In …
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LitStack Recs: Memoirs of Place and The Dinosaur Heresies
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanOn Memoirs of Place: A Quick List I always appreciate a good memoir that centers …
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LitStack Rec: ‘Spring and All’ and ‘Honest Dogs’
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanSpring and All, William Carlos Willams In a frenzy that could have only taken …
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LitStack Recs: ‘Paris Stories’ and ‘The Book of Killowen’
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanParis StoriesMavis Gallant When the news came Tuesday that the great story writer Mavis Gallant …
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LitStack Recs: ‘I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place’ and ‘Born to Pull’
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanI Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place Howard Norman In the essay-as-memoir, the writer can …
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LitStack Rec: A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century and The Boys of My Youth
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanThe Boys of My Youth, by Jo Ann Beard When it was released in 1998, …
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LitStack Rec: The Goldfinch and Exposure
by Lauren Alwanby Lauren AlwanThe Goldfinch,Donna Tartt The reception Donna Tartt has garnered for her third novel, her first …