Taste: My Life Through Food & Six of Crows
Taste: My Life Through Food, a memoir by Stanley Tucci “Cook. Smell. Taste. Eat. Drink. Share. Repeat as necessary.” For...
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Three Classic Irish Writers to Read on St. Patrick’s Day & Wintering
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin’s 2009 novel, recipient of the Costa Award, is an affecting and haunting story set in...
Litstack Recs | Three Memoirs for Women’s History Month & The Terraformers
For #WomensHistoryMonth, here are three memoirs that portray a range of women's lives, from mid-century summers in Brittany, to pre-9/11...
Litstack Recs | Three Great Short Story Collections for Women’s History Month & Monarca
Three Great Short Story Collections for Women's History Month For #WomensHistoryMonth, here are three classic story collections by women who...
Litstack Recs | The Candy House & Born A Crime
The Candy House: a novel, by Jennifer Egan This intricate novel of futurism, connection, love and attachment—like the social media...
LitStack Recs | Nights & The Ballad of Black Tom
Nights, by Joan Didion Blue Nights is a counterpart to Didion’s 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, which tracks...
LitStack Recs | We Need New Names & The UnAmericans
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo NoViolet Bulawayo's powerful novel of the life of a young girl from Zimbabwe,...
Litstack Recs | Whereabouts & Slay
Whereabouts, a novel, by Jhumpa Lahiri This melancholy and stylish novel, Jhumpa Lahiri’s third, marks a tonal and literary departure....
LitStack Recs | The Clothing of Books & The City & the City
The Clothing of Books, by Jhumpa Lahiri “How do you clothe a book?” is how this small, but powerful volume...
Litstack Recs | Spare & The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Spare, by Prince Harry The phenomenon known as Spare is barely a week old, but the memoir by Prince Harry,...
Litstack Recs | The Dead Fish Museum & Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories, by Charles D’Ambrosio Of Charles D'Ambrosio and his 2006 story collection The Dead Fish Museum,...
LitStack Recs | Tinkers & Pet
Tinkers, by Paul Harding Paul Harding's Tinkers, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010, tells of George Washington Crosby, a...
Litstack Recs | Favorite Reads of 2022 & Project Hail Mary
A Few Favorite Reads of 2022 A brief wrap-up of some of the books I loved reading this past year....
Litstack Recs | As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride & The Snow Child
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride—by Cary Elwes with Joe Layden and a foreword...
LitStack Recs| The Marriage Plot & The City Inside
The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides “Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.” That reflection comes early in Jeffrey...
Litstack Recs | Jerusalem: A Cookbook and All Our Wrong Todays
Jerusalem: A Cookbook, by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi. Some cookbooks are defined by a generation. Your grandmother’s shelf likely...
Litstack Recs | Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays & Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, by Zadie Smith As an essay reader, and writer, I always hope to make a...
Litstack recs | Joseph Anton, by Salman Rushdie and The Burning Light, by Bradley P. Beaulieu and Rob Ziegler
Joseph Anton: a memoir, by Salman Rushdie Joseph Anton was published in 2012, but no memoir may be more relevant...
Litstack Recs | Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman & The Grind
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, with a foreword by Emma Thompson. Edited by Alan Taylor “Of all the...
Litstack Recs I Reading Like a Writer & Twisted Fairy Tales
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, by...
LitStack Recs | Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror & Till the End
Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror, edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto In their introduction to Tiny Nightmares:...
Litstack Recs | The Refugees, Stories by Viet Thanh Nguyen & The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
The Refugees: Stories, by Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer, the debut novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, won the Pulitzer Prize...
litstack Recs | How Fiction Works & Shadow Run
How Fiction Works, by James Wood. When it comes to books on the craft of writing, I tend to gravitate...
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...
Litstack Recs | A Wrinkle in Time & Sisters
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle, a rec for #BannedBooksWeek This classic novel, number 23 on the American Library...
Litstack Recs | The Sheltering Sky & The Space Between Worlds
The Sheltering Sky, by Paul Bowles Bowles is one of my favorite writers. His prose is stark yet rich, with...
Litstack Recs | We the Animals & Kitchens of the Great Midwest
Called "a dark jewel of a book," by Michael Cunningham, We the Animals, the 2011 debut novel by Justin Torres,...
Litstack Recs| How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One & We Were Dreamers
For writers and readers, the sentence is the coin of the realm, the catch that keeps a reader securely in...
Litstack Recs | The Wrong End of the Telescope & Company Town
The Wrong End of the Telescope: a novel by Rabih Alameddine Rabih Alameddine’s sixth book, which earlier this year won...
Litstack Recs | Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden & The Last Wish – Introducing the Witcher
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, by Eleanor Perényi Writing and gardening share similarities: the same dogged tending, the...
Litstack Recs| The Love of a Good Woman & The Red
The Love of a Good Woman, stories by Alice Munro The short story has few practitioners skilled as Alice Munro,...
Litstack Recs | The Films in My Life & Six-Gun Snow White
The Films in My Life, by Francois Truffaut We are lucky that Francois Truffaut was both a prolific filmmaker and...
Litstack Recs | Two titles from WTAW Press & Ninefox Gambit
Two Titles From WTAW Press The Groundhog Forever, by Henry Hoke In Henry Hoke's debut novel, two film students in...
Litstack Recs | The Good Soldier & If You Build It…
The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford If this novel had been published under the title the author selected, "The...
Litstack Recs | The UnAmericans & All the Horses of Iceland
The UnAmericans: Stories by Molly Antopol There’s a literary lineage to the strands of Jewish American literary tradition, contemporary and...
Litstack Recs | Less & A Wild Sheep Chase
Less, a novel: by Andrew Sean Greer Less, the author's sixth book and fifth novel, is a jewel-box of a...
Litstack Recs | Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father & Time Salvager
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, by Alysia Abbott “The truth is,” Alysia Abbott writes in her debut memoir, Fairyland:...
Litstack Recs | The Custom of the Country & The Resisters
The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton I knew from the start that things would go badly for Ralph Marvell. He’s...
Litstack Recs| A Writer’s Notebook & Dog Days
A Writer’s Notebook by Somerset Maugham Like most writers, I keep a notebook—not a journal, but a record of ideas,...
Litstack Recs | Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life & Monarca
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan William Finnegan’s 2016 memoir begins with an epigraph from Edward St. Aubyn’s...
Litstack Recs | How to Write an Autobiographical Novel & When Women Were Dragons
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee "Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
Litstack Recs | The Drifters & Pacific Storm
The Drifters, by James Michener In middle school, I was curious about the 1971 bestseller on my mother's bookshelf, but Not...
Litstack Recs | Delayed Rays of a Star & Space Opera
Delayed Rays of a Star, by Amanda Lee Koe At a New Year’s Eve ball in 1928, the German-born American...
Litstack Recs| my name on his tongue & Feed
my name on his tongue, by Laila Halaby Laila Halaby’s, my name on his tongue, her first book of poetry,...
Litstack Recs | Without: Poems & The Kaiju Preservation Society
Without: Poems, by Donald Hall It doesn’t matter what I’m doing or what time of day or night it is,...
Litstack Recs | An Unnecessary Woman & The Poet X
An Unnecessary Woman, by Rabih Alameddine “I like outsiders,” Aaliya Sohbi tells us, “phantoms wandering the cobwebbed halls of the...
Litstack Recs | On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous & Life On Mars
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, A Novel by Ocean Vuong “One does not ‘pass’ in America, it seems, without English.”...
Litstack Recs| Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend & A Song for a New Day
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges For fans of Anna May Wong,...
Litstack Recs | The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries & A Natural History of Dragons
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries, by Emma Thompson With Sunday's 94th Academy Awards coming up, here's a look...
Litstack Recs | Shout Her Lovely Name & 10:04
Shout Her Lovely Name, by Natalie Serber In the title story to Natalie Serber’s debut story collection, the narrator offers...
