Litstack Recs | Desperate Characters & Project Hail Mary
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 | Little Failure & Light from Uncommon Stars
Little Failure: A Memoir, by Gary Shteyngart "In order for me to be born," Gary Shteyngart says early on in...
You Are What You Eat
There are many axioms that get tossed around writing advice columns and beginning writer's workshops. Show, don't tell is a...
What We’re Listening To: Jay & Miles X-Plain The X-Men
You know who the X-Men are. Maybe you’ve been into comic books for a long time or you’re a newcomer...
LitStack Review: Bloodline by Claudia Gray
Bloodline Claudia Gray Release Date: May 3, 2016 Del Rey ISBN-10: 0345511360 Claudia Gray can tell a Star Wars story....
LitStack Review: The Land of Forgotten Girls by Erin Entrada Kelly
The Land of Forgotten Girls Erin Entrada Kelly 978-0-06-223864-1 Greenwillow Books Review by Angie Kay Dilmore Erin Entrada Kelly’s...
OpEd: The Varying Poverties of Now
The Varying Poverties of Now In the appendix to his brief but radiant 2010 manifesto ‘Reality Hunger’—a supremely confident and...
LitStack Review: Blackbird Fly by Erin Entrada Kelly
Blackbird Fly Erin Entrada Kelly Greenwillow Books ISBN 978-0-06-223861-0 In Erin Entrada Kelly’s debut novel, Apple Yengko is a...
LitStack Review: Evening Stars by Susan Mallery
Evening Stars Susan Mallery Harlequin/Mira ISBN: 978-0-7738-1613-8 Nina Wentworth lives on Blackberry Island, a small community off the coast of...
LitStack Review: Synchronized Breathing by Tara Ellison
Synchronized Breathing Tara Ellison The Writer’s Coffee Shop 978-1-61213-189-4 After discovering nude photos her husband had taken of himself on...
LitStack Review: ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ by John Green
The Fault in Our Stars John Green Dutton Books ISBN: 978-0-525-47881-2 The world is not a wish-granting factory. Sixteen year...
LitStack Review: ‘Lydia’s Party’ by Margaret Hawkins
Lydia’s Party Margaret Hawkins Penguin Group/Viking ISBN 978-0-670-01576-4 Lydia teaches art at a small local college. She lives in a...
It’s a Jekyll and Hyde Thing: My Pursuit of the Written Word
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink...
Op Ed: The Wheelbarrows of Violence
The Wheelbarrows of Violence After missing a 7:15am train on my way upstate last Saturday, I was talking to a...
