LitStack Recs: Dept. of Speculation and Tri Star
Dept. of Speculation, by Jenny Offill With the release of Jenny Offill’s acclaimed second novel, there have been comparisons to...
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Gimbling in the Wabe – Daydream Believer
We humans are so divergent in who we are, how we react and respond, in how our minds work and...
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 The sentence is the coin...
LitStack Recs – Vivian Maier: Street Photographer & The Pilgrims
Vivian Maier: Street Photographer by Vivian Maier (Author), John Maloof (Editor), Geoff Dyer (Contributor) For forty years, Vivian Maier worked...
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 stories (released in 2011), is...
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; prose with a darkness so...
LitStack Recs: Brooklyn & 3 Sections
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin's 2009 novel, which won that year's Costa Award, is a lovely and haunting story set...
LitStack Recs: Light Years and The Expanse Series
Light Years James Salter First published in 1975, this novel is considered among the most enduring of Salter's novels. Known...
LitStack Recs: Without & Old Venus
Without Donald Hall It doesn't matter what I'm doing or what time of day or night it is, when I...
LitstackRecs: The Best American Essays & World’s Collider
The Best American Essays, 2013, edited by Cheryl Strayed The Best American series, which in 2014 featured editions of short...
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, Zadie Smith tells us in...
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 this story might run be...
LitStack Rec: Spring and All & Wonderbook
Spring and All, 1923 ed. 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 in 2012, Halaby mines issues...
LitStack Rec: Thunderstruck & Other Stories & Baseball’s Great Experiment
Thunderstruck & Other Stories, by Elizabeth McCracken Early on in Elizabeth McCracken’s extraordinary story collection, Thunderstruck, a grieving mother instructs...
LitStack Recs: The Coast of Chicago & The Dovekeepers
The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek I can still recall first reading Stuart Dybek’s classic short story “We Didn’t”...
LitStack Rec: Women in Their Beds & Ilium
Women in Their Beds — Gina Berriault Her admirers include Richard Ford, Grace Paley and Robert Stone, but American fiction...
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 for kids,” was I think...
LitStack Recs: Without & Three Parts Dead
Without Donald Hall This book is the one of the few that, when I pick it up, I read from...
LitStack Rec: Wolf Hall & In Ashes Lie
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel Mantel's novel, which appeared in 2012 and has gone on to be a global best seller,...
LitStack Recs: Home Comforts & Ms. Marvel
Home Comforts: The Art & Science of Keeping House, by Cheryl Mendelson Spring means spring cleaning—in theory. Though I think...
LitStack Recs: Bartleby, The Scrivener & The Emperor’s Blades
Bartleby, the Scrivener, by Herman Melville Overworked employees, endless legal documents to be copied, the futility of dead letters—it’s no...
LitStack Rec: These Charming People & Broken Monsters
These Charming People, stories by Michael Arlen In the period just after World War One, there were British writers who...
LitStack Recs: Blue Highways & The Thief
Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon On a dismal morning in March, 1978, William Least Heat-Moon left Columbia, Missouri, on Interstate...
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 have qualities in common: something...
LitStack Recs: The Night Angel Trilogy & A Definitive study of Alfred Hitchcock
The Night Angel Trilogy The Way of Shadows / Shadow's Edge / Beyond the Shadows Brent Weeks I really like...
LitStack Recs: The Custom of the Country & The Quick
The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton I knew from the start that things would go badly for Ralph...
LitStack Rec: Instructions & Elsewhere
Instructions: Everything You'll Need to Know on Your Journey Neil Gaiman Illustrated by Charles Vess How do you write a...
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 impossible to compile, but I...
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 essay, due to the extraordinary...
LitStack Rec: Havanas in Camelot & Wayward Saints
Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essays, by William Styron Though William Styron is best know for his novels (The Confessions of...
LitStack Rec: The Pretty Girl & Boneshaker
The Pretty Girl, a novella and stories, by Debra Spark. In Spark's 2012 collection, the puzzling and the deceptive abound—in...
LitStack Rec: The Lesson of the Master & In Great Waters
The Lesson of the Master, by Henry James Colm Tóibín, in his introduction to the 2007 edition of Henry James'...
LitStack Recs: Annihilation & The Firefox Book
The Firefox Book, by Elliot Wigginton (editor) Perfect for #throwbackthursday, this compendium of customs and rural living practices was published...
LitStack Recs: Kraken & Nora Webster
Nora Webster, by Colm Tóibín At the heart of Colm Tóibín's new novel is the story of a woman, a 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 recommend in this season of...
LitStack Recs: Elsewhere & Pet Sematary
Elsewhere, A Memoir Richard Russo For lack of better word, Richard Russo says, he calls this book a memoir. Though...
LitStack Recs: Little Failure: A Memoir & The Company
Little Failure: A Memoir, by Gary Shteyngart "In order for me to be born," Gary Shteyngart says early on in...
LitStack Recs: Wolf Hall and The Book of Lost Things
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel This recommendation is of a book I've not yet finished, or for that matter, even read—well...
LitStack Recs: Fairyland & Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, by Alysia Abbott “The truth is," Alysia Abbot writes in her debut memoir, Fairyland:...
LitStack Recs: Brooklyn & A Wild Sheep Chase
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin's 2009 novel, which won that year's Costa Award, is a lovely and haunting story set...
LitStack Recs: A Writer’s Notebook & Dangerous Women
A Writer’s Notebook by Somerset Maugham Like most writers, I keep a notebook. It's small and transportable, since the point...
LitStack Recs: Ship Fever: Stories & The Tyrant’s Law
Ship Fever: Stories, by Andrea Barrett It's been called the Oscars of the book world, and indeed, in recent years the...
LitStack Recs: Desperate Characters & The Master Butcher’s Singing Club
Desperate Characters, ca. 1970 Desperate Characters, by Paula Fox. This classic of literary fiction, written in 1970, is also a...
LitStack Recs: The Dragon’s Path & The Master
The Master, by Colm Tóibín I was only a page or so into Colm Tóibín’s novel, when it became clear...
LitStack Rec: The Android’s Dream & The Goldfinch
The Android's Dream John Scalzi With the announcement of John Scalzi's Old Man's War series being tapped for a SyFy...
LitStack Recs: 13, rue Thérèse & The Tall Book of Make-Believe
13, rue Thérèse Elena Mauli Shapiro 13, rue Thérèse is a most singular novel: perhaps not in subject matter (the reconstruction...
LitStack Rec: Knuckleball Ned & I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
Knuckleball Ned R.A. Dickey Tuesday night was Major League Baseball's All Star Game, and in honor of the mid-season classic,...
