Litstack Recs: Passage to Ararat & The Orphan Master’s Son
Passage to Ararat, by Michael J. Arlen Tuesday, April 24, marked a sober anniversary, 103 years since the Armenian genocide,...
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Litstack Rec Fear: Trump in the White House & Six Gun Snow White
Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward The story has been called a bookend to Richard Nixon's, a...
LitStack Recs: Cutting Teeth & Green
Cutting Teeth, by Julia Fierro When my daughter was little, there was a universally acknowledged sentiment among the parents I...
Litstack Rec: The Love of a Good Woman & The Windup Girl
The Love of A Good Woman, Stories by Alice Munro The short story has few practitioners as skilled as Alice...
Litstack Rec: Arranged Marriage & Class A
Arranged Marriage: Stories, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Acclaimed poet, novelist, and story writer Chitra Banerjee Divrakaruni’s first book of fiction...
Litstack Recs: Selected Stories & Space Opera
Selected Stories, by William Trevor Today's rec continues a celebration of #ShortStoryMonth. A volume of stories by William Trevor is...
Litstack Rec: The Refugees: Stories & Nightwise
The Refugees: Stories, by Viet Thanh Nguyen May is Short Story Month, a great time to celebrate the short story,...
LitStack Rec: Green Thoughts & Renascence and Other Poems
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, by Eleanor Perényi Writing and gardening share similarities: the same dogged tending, the...
Our Favorite Shakespearean Quotes
Despite the controversy surrounding his authorship and even the rumors spread about his life, Shakespeare is still an artist whose...
Litstack Rec: my name on his tongue & Baseball’s Great Experiment
Presenting another installment celebrating #NationalPoetryMonth: my name on his tongue, by Laila Halaby Laila Halaby's, my name on his tongue,...
Litstack Rec: Without & Feed
Without, by Donald Hall In celebration of National Poetry Month It doesn’t matter what I’m doing or what time of...
Cover Reveal: The Wives by Tarryn Fisher
Publisher: Harper Collins Release date: December 30, 2019 Synopsis: Imagine that your husband has two other wives. You’ve never met the...
Litstack Rec: Fruits & Vegetables, Poems & Ninefox Gambit
Fruits & Vegetables, Poems by Erica Jong In celebration of #NationalPoetryMonth Long before Fear of Flying, before Erica Jong’s now-classic...
LitStack Review: Edges by Linda Nagata
Edges Linda Nagata Mythic Island Press LLC Release Date: April 2, 2019 Space is unimaginably vast, with time and distance...
Litstack Rec: The Dead Fish Museum & The Red
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories, by Charles D'Ambrosio While most of the writing world is in Portland at #AWP19, myself...
Listack Rec: An Unnecessary Woman & How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
An Unnecessary Woman, by Rabih Alameddine - “I like outsiders,” Aaliya Sohbi tells us, “phantoms wandering the cobwebbed halls of...
Litstack Recs: Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood & American Born Chinese
Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood, by Teri Garr Each year, the Academy Awards always generates memorable images, and this year...
LitStack Recs: The End of All Things & The Death of the Heart
The End of All Things, by John Scalzi Full disclosure: I adore John Scalzi. I enjoy his writing, which I...
Litstack Rec: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel & The Cost of Hope
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee "Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
LitStack Rec: A House For Mr Biswas & Hild
A House For Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul This past week, we lost a giant when V.S. Naipaul died in...
Litstack Recs: Arranged Marriage & This Case Is Gonna Kill Me
Arranged Marriage: Stories, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Acclaimed poet, novelist, and story writer Chitra Banerjee Divrakaruni’s first book of fiction...
Our 2018 Favorite Reads
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, by Alexander CheeThe UnAmericans: Stories, by Molly AntopolThe Refugees: Stories, by Viet Thanh NguyenThe...
12/24/18 – December Giveaway: Blackbird Summer by Em Shotwell
TITLE- Blackbird Summer AUTHOR-Em Shotwell GENRE-Fantasy GIVEAWAY- One signed paperback copy of Blackbird Summer SUMMARY Meet Tallulah. Gifted. Magical. Cursed....
12/21/18 – December Giveaway: The High Court by Christopher Ledbetter
TITLE- The High Court AUTHOR- Christopher Ledbetter GENRE- Fantasy GIVEAWAY-One signed copy of to US readers. SUMMARY High atop Mount...
12/20/18: December Giveaway – Bring Down the Stars by Emma Scott
TITLE – Bring Down the StarsAUTHOR – Emma ScottGENRE – Military RomanceGIVEAWAY – Signed Print Copy, International SUMMARY – I fell...
LitStack Rec: Barbarian Days & Alif the Unseen
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan William Finnegan's 2016 memoir begins with an epigraph from Edward St. Aubyn's...
Litstack Rec: Dreams From My Father & Time Salvager
Dreams From My Father, by Barack Obama Stories that center on fathers have a distinct place in the memoir genre....
LitStack Rec: Life Drawing & A City Dreaming
Life Drawing, by Robin Black “Nobody outside a marriage can understand it,” the narrator of Life Drawing tells us. In...
Bond Instead of Ban
I confess that I was one of those mothers. You know the type, the one who screened everything my kids...
Litstack Recs: Fear: Trump in the White House & The Bone Clocks
Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward It’s been called a bookend to the Nixon story, a tale...
LitStack Review: Mecha Samurai Empire by Peter Tieryas
Mecha Samurai Empire Peter TieryasAce/Penguin Random HouseRelease Date: September 18, 2018 (USA)ISBN 9780451490995 Mac is a teenager living in Los Angeles...
LitStack Rec: Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List & Shotgun Lovesongs
Barack Obama's Summer Reading List In uncertain times, we look to the familiar things, and this past week, it was...
LitStack Recs: Desperate Characters & Mortal Bonds
Desperate Characters, by Paula Fox Desperate Characters, recent edition. This classic of literary fiction, written in 1970, is also a...
National Lighthouse Day – August 7th
Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other. ~ Virginia Woolf Perhaps that’s...
LitStack Recs: Blood Will Out & The Adjacent
Blood Will Out, by Walter Kirn In Preston Sturges’ romantic comedy, “The Palm Beach Story,” Claudette Colbert plays Gerry, reluctant...
LitStack Recs: The Good Soldier & Sweetbitter
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford If this novel had been published under the title the author selected, The...
LitStack Rec: Cutting Teeth & Wait Till Next Year
Cutting Teeth, by Julia Fierro When my daughter was little, there was a sentiment among the parents I knew. We...
Release Blitz: Jackal by Tarryn Fisher & Willow Aster
Jackal is LIVE and FREE on Kindle Unlimited! Are you ready to meet the next End Man? Amazon US: http://bit.ly/JackalUS...
RIP Harlan Ellison 1934 – 2018
Deadline is reporting that science fiction author Harlan Ellison has died at the age of 83. From a family friend, Christine...
Release Blitz: Folsom by Tarryn Fisher and Willow Aster
The nation as we know it is a thing of the past. With the male species on the verge of...
Persistence and the Writer’s Road: Lauren Alwan’s “An Amount of Discretion”
When you are a creative type, staying in your own lane leads you places. For me, that meant moving in...
LitStack Recs: Who Do You Love & Glow
Who Do You Love: Stories, by Jean Thompson In my favorite short stories, something singular happens to a character, usually...
Litstack Recs: The Refugees & All the Light We Cannot See
The Refugees: Stories, by Viet Thanh Nguyen In celebration of #ShortStoryMonth, this week's rec looks at another great story collection...
Excerpt: Folsom by Tarryn Fisher and Willow Aster
We are so excited to share an excerpt and teaser for Folsom by writing duo Tarryn Fisher and Willow Aster...
LitStack Rec: The Empty Family & Company Town
The Empty Family, by Colm Tóibín For #ShortStoryMonth, I'm recapping some favorite story collections—and chief among the story writers I...
Cover Reveal: Folsom by Tarryn Fisher and Willow Aster
We are so excited to reveal the cover for Folsom by writing duo Tarryn Fisher and Willow Aster coming on...
LitStack Rec: Two Award-Winning Titles from WTAW Press & Born A Crime
And There And There was Evening And There Was Morning, Essays on Illness, Loss, and Love,by Mike Smith The Truth...
Shakespeare and the Original Pronunciation
Check out this very cool clip on the original pronunciations of Shakespeare's sonnets and plays. From Open University: An introduction...
