Litstack Recs| Ship Fever & A Wild Sheep Chase
Ship Fever: Stories by Andrea Barrett The eight stories in Andrea Barrett's 1996 story collection, which won that year's National...
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Litstack Recs|There There & The Expanse Series
There There: A novel, by Tommy Orange Brilliant, innovative, lyric. Tommy Orange's stunning fiction debut is all those things, but...
Litstack Recs | Commonwealth & Otaku
Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett Of divorce, Nicole Krauss wrote, "One of us held on to the ambition of the one...
Litstack Recs |Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend & Exit West
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges Anna May Wong was the first...
Litstack Recs |The Good Soldier & The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford If this novel had been published under the title the author chose, The...
Litstack Recs |Spielberg, Truffaut and Me & Glow
Spielberg, Truffaut and Me: An Actor's Diary, by Bob Balaban With the Pentagon's recent release of three unclassified videos of...
Litstack Recs | WTAW Press 2019 ebooks & Cyber Shogun Revolution
WTAW Press 2019 Titles WTAW Press released two great titles in 2019, Chimerica, the debut novel from Anita Fellicelli, and...
Litstack rec | Vanity Fair & The Stars Are Legion
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray The early nineteenth century didn’t have reality television, but it did have William Makepeace...
Litstack Recs | Little Failure & Chosen Ones
Little Failure: A Memoir, by Gary Shteyngart "In order for me to be born," Gary Shteyngart says early on in...
Litstack Recs |The Clothing of Books & The Sisters Grimm
The Clothing of Books, by Jhumpa Lahiri “How do you clothe a book?” is the how this small, but powerful...
LitStack Recs|The Priory of the Orange Tree & The Death of the Heart
The Priory of the Orange Tree, by Samantha Shannon Samantha Shannon's The Priory of the Orange Tree has been getting...
Litstack rec | The Way We Live Now & The Red
As you read this you may, like me, be working from home, while your partner is doing the same, and...
LitStack Recs: Great Expectations & The Dead Fish Museum
Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens Narrated by Eddie Izzard I will admit that in a life full of fondness for...
LitStack Recs: Stoner & Atlas Alone
Stoner, by John Williams When it was first published, John Williams’ 1965 novel went out of print after selling only...
LitStack Recs: This Is How You Lose the Time War & The UnAmericans
This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone In this extraordinary novella, two warring...
Litstack recs | The Marriage Plot, by Jeffery Eugenides
The Marriage Plot, by Jeffery Eugenides “Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.” That ironic reflection comes early in...
Litstack Recs: There There & Emily Eternal
There There: A novel, by Tommy Orange Brilliant, innovative, lyric. Tommy Orange's stunning fiction debut is all those things, but...
Litstack Recs: The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries & LaRose
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries, by Emma Thompson Emma Thompson's diary tracks the making of the award-winning Sense...
Litstack Rec: Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend & The Wanderers
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman’s Daughter to Hollywood Legend, by Graham Russell Gao Hodges Don’t be misled by the tabloid...
Litstack Recs: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays & Wintering
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee “Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
Litstack Recs: Without & Ormeshadow
Without, by Donald Hall It doesn’t matter what I’m doing or what time of day or night it is, when...
Litstack Rec: The Vexations and The Lost Child of Lychford
The Vexations, by Caitlin Horrocks One of my favorites books of this year, Caitlin Horrock's debut novel, The Vexations, is...
Litstack Rec: The Dead Fish Museum & Suicide Woods
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories, by Charles D'Ambrosio Charles D'Ambrosio's 2006 story collection, The Dead Fish Museum, is set in...
LitStack Review: Silver by Linda Nagata
Silver (Inverted Frontier Book 2) Linda Nagata Mythic Island Press Release Date: November 19, 2019 I simply do not have...
Litstack Rec: An Unnecessary Woman & A Song for a New Day
An Unnecessary Woman, by Rabih Alameddine “I like outsiders,” Aaliya Sohbi tells us, “phantoms wandering the cobwebbed halls of the...
LitStack Rec: This Boy’s Life and Landscape With Invisible Hand
This Boy's Life: A Memoir, by Tobias Wolff First published in 1989, Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life has become a classic...
Litstack Recs: Vanity Fair & Slade House
Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray The early nineteenth century didn’t have reality television, but it did have William Makepeace...
Litstack Rec: Car Trouble & The Sol Majestic
As Car Trouble opens, it's one a.m., and the novel’s young protagonist, Nicky Flynn, is driving backwards through the streets...
Litstack Recs: Arranged Marriage: Stories & Shadow Run
Arranged Marriage: Stories, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The eleven stories in Arranged Marriage reveal Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s gift for chronicling...
Litstack Recs – Fear: Trump in the White House & A City Dreaming
Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward With this week's news that impeachment of the president looks to...
Litstack Rec: The Vexations & Relics
The Vexations, by Caitlin Horrocks The lives of artists, when depicted in novels, must portray artmaking for what it is:...
Litstack Rec: Epilogue: A Memoir & Zombie Baseball Beatdown
Epilogue: A Memoir, by Will Boast Both a remembrance and an elegiac account of the loss of a family, Boast’s...
LitStack Rec: Manhood for Amateurs & A Fort of Nine Towers
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, essays by Michael Chabon The trope of...
Litstack Recs: Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List & Admiral
Barack Obama's Summer Reading List The #SummerReads of President Barack Obama are always an eclectic and smart collection of books...
Litstack Rec: The 400 Blows & The Last Wish (The Witcher)
The 400 Blows, by Francois Truffaut This year marks the 60th anniversary of the release of Francois Truffaut’s The 400...
Litstack Recs: Passage to Ararat & The Orphan Master’s Son
Passage to Ararat, by Michael J. Arlen Tuesday, April 24, marked a sober anniversary, 103 years since the Armenian genocide,...
Litstack Recs: Fleabag & Speak Easy
Last week, when the Emmy nominations were announced, the BBC Three series Fleabag received eleven nominations—for writing, acting, and direction,...
Litstaff Rec: Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories & The Cage
Werewolves in Their Youth: Stories, by Michael Chabon Michael Chabon’s, Werewolves in Their Youth isn’t a horror or sci-fi, though Chabon...
Litstack Rec Fear: Trump in the White House & Six Gun Snow White
Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward The story has been called a bookend to Richard Nixon's, a...
Staff Rec: The Clothing of Books & Boy Erased
The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri "How do you clothe a book?" is the how this small, but powerful...
LitStack Recs: Cutting Teeth & Green
Cutting Teeth, by Julia Fierro When my daughter was little, there was a universally acknowledged sentiment among the parents I...
Litstack Rec: The Mueller Report & Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
On Wednesday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller spoke publicly for the first time about the Russia investigation he began over two...
Litstack Rec: The Love of a Good Woman & The Windup Girl
The Love of A Good Woman, Stories by Alice Munro The short story has few practitioners as skilled as Alice...
Litstack Rec: Arranged Marriage & Class A
Arranged Marriage: Stories, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Acclaimed poet, novelist, and story writer Chitra Banerjee Divrakaruni’s first book of fiction...
LitStack Review: Gather the Fortunes by Bryan Camp
Gather the FortunesA Crescent City Novel, Book 2Bryan CampJohn Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin HarcourtPublication Date: May 21, 2019ISBN: 978-1328876713 Renaissance Raines...
Litstack Recs: Selected Stories & Space Opera
Selected Stories, by William Trevor Today's rec continues a celebration of #ShortStoryMonth. A volume of stories by William Trevor is...
Litstack Rec: The Refugees: Stories & Nightwise
The Refugees: Stories, by Viet Thanh Nguyen May is Short Story Month, a great time to celebrate the short story,...
LitStack Rec: Green Thoughts & Renascence and Other Poems
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, by Eleanor Perényi Writing and gardening share similarities: the same dogged tending, the...
Our Favorite Shakespearean Quotes
Despite the controversy surrounding his authorship and even the rumors spread about his life, Shakespeare is still an artist whose...
