LitStack Recs: Changing My Mind & Tor.com
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays Zadie Smith This collection of essays came about by accident, Zadie Smith tells us in...
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Gimbling in the Wabe – Tangible Authors
I am an extremely lucky person. At times when I am feeling particularly magnanimous, I would even say that I...
LitStack Rec: Nora Webster and London Falling & The Severed Streets
Nora Webster, by Colm Tóibín At the heart of Colm Tóibín's new novel is the story of a woman, a...
LitStack Review: The Past by Tessa Hadley
The Past Tessa Hadley Harper Release Date: January 5, 2016 ISBN 978-0-06-227041-2 As I read Tessa Hadley's newest novel, The...
LitStack Rec: How to Read a Sentence… & The Butcher of Anderson Station
How to Read a Sentence and How to Write One, by Stanley Fish The sentence is the coin of the...
LitStack Review: A Gathering of Shadows by V. E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows V. E. Schwab Tor Books Release Date: February 23, 2016 ISBN 978-0-7653-7647-3 In the nine books...
LitStack Review: Arcadia by Iain Pears
Arcadia Iain Pears Alfred A. Knopf Release Date: February 9, 2016 ISBN 978-1-101-94682-4 Recently, I attempted to explain the plot...
Gimbling in the Wabe – A Thousand Words
* This Gimbling was first published in 2013.* Anyone who has eaten a ripe, juicy peach knows how messy they...
LitStack Rec: My Misspent Youth & Three Parts Dead
My Misspent Youth, essays by Meghan Daum My introduction to Daum and her essays was Life Would Be Perfect If...
Gimbling in the Wabe – Sneaking Into Comic Book Fandom by the Side Door
Every Wednesday is notable at my house, because it is the day that new releases hit the shelves of our...
LitStack Rec: The Empty Family & The Last Witness
The Empty Family, by Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín's story collection, The Empty Family (released January 4, 2011) is one I...
LitStack Review: All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
All the Birds in the Sky Charlie Jane Anders Tor Books Release Date: January 26, 2016 ISBN 978-0-7653-7994-8 A young...
LitStack Review: The Providence of Fire by Brian Staveley
The Providence of Fire Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, Book II Brian Staveley Tor Books Release Date: December 8, 2015...
LitStack Rec: The Custom of the Country & The Magicians Trilogy
The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton I knew from the start that things would go badly for Ralph Marvell....
Blog Tour: The Secrets of Solace by Jaleigh Johnson
The Secrets of Solace Jaleigh Johnson Delacorte Books for Young Readers Release Date: March 8, 2016 ISBN 978-0-385-37648-8 Jaleigh Johnson...
Gimbling in the Wabe – Trash and Treasure
I will be the first to admit that I walk slowly. I don't even really walk - I stroll. It's...
Litstack Rec: Spielberg, Truffaut & Me and Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere
Spielberg, Truffaut and Me: An Actor's Diary, by Bob Balaban In the summer of 1976, during the first weeks of...
Gimbling in the Wabe – A Rather Petty But Nonetheless Tragic Tale of Woe (and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson)
This is a tragic tale of procrastination, of frustration, of yet another good intention ground into the paving stones of...
LitStack Recs: Far From the Madding Crowd & The Lives of Tao
Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy First published in 1874, Hardy's novel of romantic entanglements and farming rural...
LitStack Review: Ithaca Falls by Steve Thayer
Ithaca Falls Steve Thayer Conquill Press Release Date: April 15, 2015 ISBN 978-0-9908461-1-6 I have a couple of confessions to...
Flash Review: Weighing Shadows by Lisa Goldstein
Weighing Shadows Lisa Goldstein Night Shade Books Release Date: November 3, 2015 ISBN 978-1-59780-840-8 In Weighing Shadows, we meet Ann...
Gimbling in the Wabe – That Which Goes Crash in the Night
A few nights ago, I woke at 4:30 in the morning. This, unfortunately, is a fairly common occurrence, but given...
LitStack Review: A Daughter of No Nation by A. M. Dellamonica
A Daughter of No Nation A. M. Dellamonica Tor Books Release Date: December 1, 2015 ISBN 978-0-7653-3450-3 A follow-up to...
LitStack Rec: The Films in My Life & Planetfall
The Films in My Life, by Francois Truffaut This past week, Francois Truffaut would have turned 84. The revered French...
LitStack Review: Planetfall by Emma Newman
Planetfall Emma Newman Roc Books Release Date: November 3, 2015 ISBN 978-0-425-28239-7 Planetfall is one of those wonderful science fiction...
LitStack Review: The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
The Rest of Us Just Live Here Patrick Ness Harper Teen Release Date: October 6, 2015 ISBN 978-0-06-240316-2 Did you...
Gimbling in the Wabe – The View from Here
Recently, there was a bit of hullabaloo and a great deal of chortling when rapper B.o.B. "dueled" over Twitter with...
LitStack Rec: Bridge & A Tale for the Time Being
Bridge, by Robert Thomas “Welcome to the prayer-strewn pews of my brain,” Alice, the narrator of Bridge tells us, and...
A Month of Letters Challenge
So, when I took the parcel I was going to send out for the first day of the 2016 A...
LitStack Review: The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season The Broken Earth: Book One N. K. Jemisin Orbit Books Release Date: August 4, 2015 ISBN 978-0-316-22929-6...
Gimbling in the Wabe – In Praise of Letters
I promise, I won’t make this a diatribe on the lack of personalization in society today, nor will I bemoan...
LitStack Rec: Desperate Characters & The Terror
Desperate Characters, by Paula Fox This classic of literary fiction, first published in 1970, is also a classic example of...
LitStack Review: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
Uprooted Naomi Novik Del Rey First Edition: May 19, 2015 ISBN 978-0-8041-7904-1 Agnieszka is a girl who lives in a...
Gimbling in the Wabe – Winter and Reading
The bulk of this Gimbling in the Wabe came from one I had posted three years ago; it's also, I...
LitStack Recs: Stoner & Speak Easy
Stoner, by John Williams John Williams’ 1965 novel went out of print after selling only 2,000 copies, but since its...
Gimbling in the Wabe – No Parking on Thursday
The signs are up in the street in front of my house: No Parking on Thursday - Tree Work from...
LitStack Rec: Examinations of Hitchock & Fangirl
A Definitive study of Alfred Hitchcock, by Francois Truffaut, trans. by Helen Scott (1966) & Hitchcock/Truffaut, a documentary film by...
LitStack Review: Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace
Archivist Wasp Nicole Kornher-Stace Big Mouth House Publishing Release Date: May 5, 2015 ISBN 978-1-61873-097-8 Wasp isn't her real name. ...
LitStack Review: Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
Career of Evil Robert Galbraith Mulholland Books Release Date: October 20, 2015 ISBN 978-0-316-34993-2 Career of Evil, the third book...
2016 Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses & John Saturnall’s Feast
2016 Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses, edited by Bill Henderson with Pushcart Prize editors There are best-of...
LitStack Review: Fishing With RayAnne by Ava Finch
Fishing With RayAnne Ava Finch Lake Union Publishing Release Date: November 3, 2015 ISBN 978-15-0-39476-89 At first glance, RayAnne Dahl...
LitStack Review: The Jesus Cow by Michael Perry
The Jesus Cow Michael Perry Harper Release Date: May 19, 2015 ISBN 978-0-06-228991-9 You know you're reading a mighty special...
LitStack Review: Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things Jenny Lawson Flatiron Books Release Date: September 22, 2015 ISBN 978-1-250-07700-4 Jenny...
Gimbling in the Wabe – My Personal Literary Highlights of 2015
It's that time of year - when everyone comes out with an end-of-the-year "best of" list. Maybe I'm more...
LitStack Rec: Brooklyn and Viva Frida
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin's 2009 novel, which won that year's Costa Award, is a lovely and haunting story set...
LitStack Review: Slade House by David Mitchell
Slade House David Mitchell Random House Release Date: October 27, 2015 ISBN 978-0-8129-9868-9 David Mitchell is an amazing novelist (NPR...
Gimbling in the Wabe – In Praise of Difficult Genre Fiction
Recently, I was fortunate to read, in close succession, three masterful works in the science fiction/fantasy genre that I would...
LitStack Rec: Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place & Moon Girl
Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place, by Annie Proulx The memoir by this award-winning novelist (The Shipping News) and story writer...
LitStack Review – Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald
Luna: New Moon Ian McDonald Tor Books Release Date: September 22, 2015 ISBN 978-0-7653-7551-3 More than a month before Ian...
Flash Review: Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
Fortune Smiles Adam Johnson Random House Release Date: August 18, 2015 ISBN 978-0-8129-9747-7 While this flash review was being written,...
