Litstack Recs | The Oysters of Locmariaquer & A Spindle Splintered
The Oysters of Locmariaquer, by Eleanor Clark Late in Eleanor Clark’s extraordinary book, she tells us the oyster needs the...
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Litstack Rec |How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One & Frankie & Bug
How to Read to Read a Sentence and How to Write One, by Stanley Fish When I'm reading, the sentence...
Fantasy Series to Feed Your Need
With the Marvel Cinematic Universe in high production, high-level sci-fi productions of The Expanse and Star Trek Discovery (and Picard!)...
Litstack Recs | The Postman Always Rings Twice & To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain A Classic for #NovemberNoir James M. Cain never spoke like his...
Litstack Recs | Werewolves in Their Youth & A History of What Comes Next
Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories, by Michael Chabon Michael Chabon’s Werewolves in Their Youth isn’t exactly horror or sci-fi, though...
Litstack Rec | A Writer’s Notebook & Shadow Run
A Writer’s Notebook by Somerset Maugham Like most writers, I keep a notebook—not a journal, but a record of ideas,...
Litstack Recs | The Love of A Good Woman & Sisters of the Vast Black
The Love of A Good Woman, Stories by Alice Munro The short story has few practitioners who can touch the...
Litstack Rec |Spielberg, Truffaut, and Me: An Actor’s Diary & American Born Chinese
Spielberg, Truffaut, and Me: An Actor's Diary, by Bob Balaban In the summer of 1976, during the first weeks of...
Litstack Recs | Life Drawing & The Midnight Library
Life Drawing: a novel, by Robin Black “Nobody outside a marriage can understand it,” the narrator of Life Drawing tells...
Litstack Recs | Selected Stories & Before the Ruins
Selected Stories, by William Trevor A volume of stories by William Trevor is a reader's must-have, and this 2009 collection...
Litstack Recs| Olive Kitteridge & Aetherbound
Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout “Stories about women in houses are the real stories of our lives.” Thequote, from director...
Litstack Recs | Stoner & If You Build It
Stoner, by John Williams When it was first published, John Williams’ 1965 novel went out of print after selling only...
Litstack Recs| Commonwealth & Black Water Sister
Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett Of divorce, Nicole Krauss wrote, "One of us held on to the ambition of the one...
LitStack Recs – Blood Will Out & Gideon the Ninth
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade, by Walter Kirn In Preston Sturges’ ...
Litstack Recs |Two books in Conversation: Colm Tóibín and Henry James & A Fort of Nine Towers
The Lesson of the Master, by Henry James, and The Master, by Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín, in his introduction to...
Litstack Recs | Two New Titles Slated for The Moneybunnies Series & Zombie Baseball Beatdown
The Moneybunnies Series, by Cinders McLeod Toronto-based author and cartoonist Cinders McLeod has come up with a brilliant tool way...
Litstack Rec | There There & Sunny Song Will Never Be Famous
There There: A novel, by Tommy Orange Brilliant, innovative, lyric. Tommy Orange's stunning fiction debut is all those things, but...
Litstack Recs – Dreams From My Father & Wendy Darling
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama On August 4, Barack Obama celebrates his...
Litstack Recs | Less & Sisters
Less, by Andrew Sean Greer Less, the sixth book and fifth novel by Andrew Sean Greer, is a jewel-box of...
Litstack Recs | Vanity Fair & Dog Days
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray July 18 marks the 210th birthday of William Makepeace Thackeray, whose novel of social-climbing,...
Litstack Recs | Midsummer Reads & The Last Days of Magic
Midsummer Reads I've got a beautiful TBR stack, and in recent months I've been spending time with some fantastic books....
Litstack Recs |Four New Adaptations from Kirkus Reviews’ Book to Screen & Gideon the Ninth
Four New Adaptations from Kirkus Reviews' Book to Screen This week at Kirkus, the legendary book review site, their Book...
Litstack Recs| The Vexations & Pet
The Vexations: a novel, by Caitlin Horrocks The lives of artists should portray artmaking for the work it is, anything...
LitStack Recs: Women in Their Beds & Luna: New Moon
Women in Their Beds — Gina Berriault To cap off #ShortStoryMonth, my rec this week revisits a collection by one...
Litstack Rec | A Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock & Boy Erased
A Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock, by Francois Truffaut, trans. by Helen Scott (1966)& Hitchcock/Truffaut, a documentary film by Kent...
Litstack Rec | New titles from WTAW Press & Ninth Metal
New Titles From WTAW Press The Groundhog Forever, by Henry Hoke Mark this month's celebration of pride with the queer sequel...
Litstack Rec | Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend & The Perfume Collector
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges Anna May Wong was the first...
Litstack Recs | The Love of A Good Woman & Project Hail Mary
The Love of A Good Woman, Stories by Alice Munro The short story has few practitioners as skilled as Alice...
Litstack Recs: The Dead Fish Museum: Stories & Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories, by Charles D'Ambrosio A classic read for #shortstorymonth is Charles D'Ambrosio's 2006 story collection The...
Litstack Rec | Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays & Yes, Chef
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, by Zadie Smith This collection came about by accident, Zadie Smith tells us in the...
Litstack Recs | The Custom of the Country & Shakespeare in Kabul
The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton I knew from the start that things would go badly for Ralph...
Litstack Recs | The Good Soldier & D (A Tale of Two Worlds)
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford If this novel had been published under the title the author wanted, The...
Litstack Recs | The Clothing of Books & Remote Control
The Clothing of Books, by Jhumpa Lahiri “How do you clothe a book?” is the how this small, but powerful...
Litstack Recs | The Places In-Between & Borne
The Places In-Between, by Rory Stewart In 2002, Rory Stewart made a walk across Afghanistan from Herat to Kabul. A...
Litstack Recs |Out of Place: A Memoir & Unless
Out of Place: A Memoir, by Edward Said Edward Said, the prolific author, political activist, pianist, and music critic, rose...
Litstack Recs | Orphans: Essays & When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
Orphans: Essays, by Charles D'Ambrosio Hold a copy of Orphans in your hand, and its singularity is apparent. With its...
Litstack Recs | Passage to Ararat & LaRose
Passage to Ararat, by Michael J. Arlen During the Armenian genocide, 1.2 million Armenians were systematically murdered between 1915 and...
Litstack Recs | These Charming People: Stories & The Stargazer’s Sister
These Charming People, stories by Michael Arlen Edition from the 2nd printing of These Charming People, c. 1924 In the...
Litstack Recs | Blue Nights & Ormeshadow
Blue Nights, by Joan Didion Blue Nights is a counterpart to Didion’s 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, which...
Litstack Rec | The Empty Family & The Snow Child
The Empty Family: Stories by Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín's 2011 collection, The Empty Family is a book I always keep...
Litstack Recs | The Films in My Life & The Space Between Worlds
The Films in My Life, by Francois Truffaut We are lucky that Francois Truffaut was in his short life a...
Litstack Recs |Paris Stories & Slow River
Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant When the great story writer Mavis Gallant died, I thought of a story from her...
Litstack Rec |Desperate Characters & Luster
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox Desperate Characters, recent edition. This classic of literary fiction, written in 1970, is also a...
Litstack Recs | The 400 Blows & Hamnet
The 400 Blows, by Francois Truffaut 2019 marked the 60th anniversary of the release of Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows,...
Litstack Recs | 2021 Reading List & The Murderbot Diaries
New year, new books—and these are some of the ones I'm looking forward to in 2021. My Year Abroad, by...
Litstack Recs | The Oysters of Locmariaquer, by Eleanor Clark
The Oysters of Locmariaquer, by Eleanor Clark Late in Eleanor Clark’s extraordinary book, she tells us the oyster needs the...
Litstack Recs | The MoneyBunny Series & Shades of Milk and Honey
The MoneyBunny Series The internationally acclaimed MoneyBunnies Series, by Canadian author and illustrator Cinders McLeod, are the perfect books for...
Litstack Recs| Selected Stories & The Once and Future Witches
Selected Stories, by William Trevor A volume of stories by William Trevor is a reader's must-have, and this 2009 collection...
Litstack Recs | How to Grow Old Disgracefully: An Autobiography &
How to Grow Old Disgracefully: An Autobiography, by Hermione Gingold If you’re a fan of classic films, say, Vincente Minnelli’s...
Litstack Recs | There There: A novel & Pacific Storm
There There: A novel, by Tommy Orange Brilliant. Innovative. Lyric. Tommy Orange's stunning fiction debut is all those things, but...
