Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays, by William Styron Though William Styron is best know for …
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LitStack Recs: Patrimony – A True Story and Cloud Atlas
Patrimony: A True Story, by Philip Roth Roth’s 1991 memoir charts the illness and death …
LitStack Recs: A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople & Wayward Saints
A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople, by Patrick Leigh Fermor A classic of …
LitStack Recs: Cutting Teeth & Back Roads and Frontal Lobes
Cutting Teeth, by Julia Fierro When October comes, I’m always caught off guard by how …
The Perfume Collector Kathleen Tessaro Last week, I loaned out my copy of Kathleen Tessaro’s …
LitStack Recs: A Writer’s Notebook & The Glamourist Histories
A Writer’s Notebook by Somerset Maugham Somerset Maugham’s A Writer’s Notebook was first published in …
Jerusalem: A Cookbook, by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi. Some cookbooks are defined by a …
Wonder Woman Unbound The Curious History of the World’s Most Famous Heroine Tim Hanley I’ve …
Litstack Recs: The Places In-Between & The Silmarillion
The Places In-Between, Rory Stewart In 2002, Rory Stewart made a walk across Afghanistan from …
Blue Nights, by Joan Didion Joan Didion is an author I’ve long revered, whose books …
LitStack Recs: Wonder Woman Unbound & The Good Soldier
Wonder Woman Unbound The Curious History of the World’s Most Famous Heroine Tim Hanley College …
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray The mid-nineteenth century didn’t have reality television, but it did …
LitStack Recs: A Fort of Nine Towers & The Postman Always Rings Twice
A Fort of Nine Towers Qais Akbar Omar From a young boy’s memories comes a …
LitStack Recs: Presidential Summer Reading List & Take Away the A
The Presidential Summer Reading List As The Hill reported last week, President Barack Obama chose …
LitStack Recs: A Brief Look at Father Memoirs & Blueberry Girl
A Brief Look at Father Memoirs Stories that center on fathers have a distinct place …
LitStack Recs: Dept. of Speculation and Tri Star
Dept. of Speculation, by Jenny Offill With the release of Jenny Offill’s acclaimed second novel, …
LitStack Recs: How to Write a Sentence: And How To Read One & My Father’s Arms Are a Boat
How to Read to Read a Sentence and How to Write One, by Stanley Fish …
LitStack Recs – Vivian Maier: Street Photographer & The Pilgrims
Vivian Maier: Street Photographer by Vivian Maier (Author), John Maloof (Editor), Geoff Dyer (Contributor) For …
LitStack Rec: The Empty Family & Baseball’s Great Experiment
The Empty Family, by Colm Tóibín The Empty Family, Colm Tóibín’s most recent collection of …
LitStack Recs: The Sheltering Sky & On the Day You Were Born
The Sheltering Sky Paul Bowles Bowles is one of my favorite writers, stark yet rich; …
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin’s 2009 novel, which won that year’s Costa Award, is a …
Light Years James Salter First published in 1975, this novel is considered among the most …
Without Donald Hall It doesn’t matter what I’m doing or what time of day or …
LitstackRecs: The Best American Essays & World’s Collider
The Best American Essays, 2013, edited by Cheryl Strayed The Best American series, which in …
LitStack Recs: Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays & A Guide to Field Identification – Birds of North America
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays Zadie Smith This collection of essays came about by accident, …
LitStack Recs: Company of Liars & Life Would be Perfect if I Lived in That House
Life Would be Perfect if I Lived in That House Meghan Daum The moral of …
Spring and All, William Carlos Willams In the frenzy that was my final term of …
LitStack Recs: my name on his tongue & Never Let Me Go
my name on his tongue, by Laila Halaby In her first book of poetry, published …
LitStack Rec: Thunderstruck & Other Stories & Baseball’s Great Experiment
Thunderstruck & Other Stories, by Elizabeth McCracken Early on in Elizabeth McCracken’s extraordinary story collection, …
LitStack Recs: The Coast of Chicago & The Dovekeepers
The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek I can still recall first reading Stuart Dybek’s …
Women in Their Beds — Gina Berriault Her admirers include Richard Ford, Grace Paley and …
LitStack Recs: The Drifters & The Book of Strange New Things
The Drifters, by James Michener I was curious about Michener’s 1971 bestseller, but “Not a book …
LitStack Recs: Without & Three Parts Dead
Without Donald Hall This book is the one of the few that, when I pick …
LitStack Rec: Wolf Hall & In Ashes Lie
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel Mantel’s novel, which appeared in 2012 and has gone on to …
LitStack Recs: Bartleby, The Scrivener & The Emperor’s Blades
Bartleby, the Scrivener, by Herman Melville Overworked employees, endless legal documents to be copied, the …
LitStack Rec: These Charming People & Broken Monsters
These Charming People, stories by Michael Arlen In the period just after World War One, …
Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon On a dismal morning in March, 1978, William Least Heat-Moon …
LitStack Rec: Who Do You Love: Stories & The Name of the Wind
Who Do You Love: Stories, by Jean Thompson My favorite short stories all seem to …
LitStack Recs: The Custom of the Country & The Quick
The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton I knew from the start that things …
Instructions: Everything You’ll Need to Know on Your Journey Neil Gaiman Illustrated by Charles Vess …
Books on my 2015 TBR List The new year has arrived. So has a new …
LitStack Recs: Favorite Reads of 2014 & Wolf in White Van
My Favorite Reads of 2014 So many great books this year makes a tiered list …
LitStack Recs: The Empathy Exams & The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy
The Empathy Exams: Essays, by Leslie Jamison 2014 is being called the year of the …
LitStack Rec: Havanas in Camelot & Wayward Saints
Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays, by William Styron Though William Styron is best know for …
The Pretty Girl, a novella and stories, by Debra Spark. In Spark’s 2012 collection, the …
The Lesson of the Master, by Henry James Colm Tóibín, in his introduction to the …
The Firefox Book, by Elliot Wigginton (editor) Perfect for #throwbackthursday, this compendium of customs and …
Nora Webster, by Colm Tóibín At the heart of Colm Tóibín‘s new novel is the story …
LitStack Rec: Back Roads and Frontal Lobes & The Postman Always Rings Twice
Back Roads and Frontal Lobes Brady Allen I cannot think of a better book to …
Elsewhere, A Memoir Richard Russo For lack of better word, Richard Russo says, he calls …