LitStack Reviews

Loading …

LitStack Review | Car Trouble: A Novel by Robert Rorke

Published on : 21 May, 201921 May, 2019 Published by : Lauren Alwan

Car Touble: A NovelRobert Rorke Harper Perennial Publication Date: September 11, 2018 ISBN: 978-0062848499 As Car Trouble opens, it’s one a.m., and the novel’s young protagonist, Nicky Flynn, is driving backwards through the streets of Brooklyn in a Chevy Impala. The car, nicknamed the Blue Max, operates only in reverse, due to a jammed gearshift, [….]

LitStack Review: Gather the Fortunes by Bryan Camp

Published on : 16 May, 201916 May, 2019 Published by : Sharon Browning

Gather the Fortunes A Crescent City Novel, Book 2 Bryan Camp John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication Date: May 21, 2019 ISBN: 978-1328876713 Renaissance Raines is an integral but somewhat minor character in Bryan Camp’s superlative first Crescent City novel, The City of Lost Fortunes. In that earlier book, the seemingly innocuous occult store clerk [….]

On this day, September 18, in 1709, Samuel Johnson was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. A supremely literate man, he was a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, who in 1755 published A Dictionary of the English Language (which he wrote himself, a task that took 9 years); it was the pre-eminent English dictionary until the Oxford English Dictionary was published 173 years later. He was also well known for an influential annotated edition of William Shakespeare’s plays, as well as many other works. “Dr. Johnson” died in London in 1784; he was 75.

Instagram did not return a 200.