Three Classic Irish Writers to Read on St. Patrick’s Day & Wintering
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin Toibin’s 2009 novel, recipient of the Costa Award, is an affecting and haunting story set in...
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Litstack Recs | Three Memoirs for Women’s History Month & The Terraformers
For #WomensHistoryMonth, here are three memoirs that portray a range of women's lives, from mid-century summers in Brittany, to pre-9/11...
Litstack Recs | Three Great Short Story Collections for Women’s History Month & Monarca
Three Great Short Story Collections for Women's History Month For #WomensHistoryMonth, here are three classic story collections by women who...
Litstack Recs | The Candy House & Born A Crime
The Candy House: a novel, by Jennifer Egan This intricate novel of futurism, connection, love and attachment—like the social media...
LitStack Recs | Nights & The Ballad of Black Tom
Nights, by Joan Didion Blue Nights is a counterpart to Didion’s 2005 memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, which tracks...
LitStack Recs | We Need New Names & The UnAmericans
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo NoViolet Bulawayo's powerful novel of the life of a young girl from Zimbabwe,...
Litstack Recs | Whereabouts & Slay
Whereabouts, a novel, by Jhumpa Lahiri This melancholy and stylish novel, Jhumpa Lahiri’s third, marks a tonal and literary departure....
LitStack Recs | The Clothing of Books & The City & the City
The Clothing of Books, by Jhumpa Lahiri “How do you clothe a book?” is how this small, but powerful volume...
Litstack Recs | Spare & The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Spare, by Prince Harry The phenomenon known as Spare is barely a week old, but the memoir by Prince Harry,...
A Reading List for 2023
Titles both recent and vintage I'm looking foward to reading this year. First up, a book that should have come...
Litstack Recs | The Dead Fish Museum & Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories, by Charles D’Ambrosio Of Charles D'Ambrosio and his 2006 story collection The Dead Fish Museum,...
LitStack Recs | Tinkers & Pet
Tinkers, by Paul Harding Paul Harding's Tinkers, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2010, tells of George Washington Crosby, a...
Litstack Recs | Favorite Reads of 2022 & Project Hail Mary
A Few Favorite Reads of 2022 A brief wrap-up of some of the books I loved reading this past year....
Litstack Recs | As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride & The Snow Child
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride—by Cary Elwes with Joe Layden and a foreword...
LitStack Recs| The Marriage Plot & The City Inside
The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides “Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.” That reflection comes early in Jeffrey...
Litstack Recs | Jerusalem: A Cookbook and All Our Wrong Todays
Jerusalem: A Cookbook, by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi. Some cookbooks are defined by a generation. Your grandmother’s shelf likely...
Featured Author Review: The Night of Demons and Saints by Menna van Praag
We continue our November celebration of the launch of book two in Menna van Praag's Sisters Grimm series with Sharon's...
Litstack Recs | Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays & Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, by Zadie Smith As an essay reader, and writer, I always hope to make a...
LitStack’s Featured Author Review: The Sisters Grimm by Menna van Praag
This month, we're celebrating the immensely talented Menna van Praag and the launch of the second book in her Sisters...
Litstack recs | Joseph Anton, by Salman Rushdie and The Burning Light, by Bradley P. Beaulieu and Rob Ziegler
Joseph Anton: a memoir, by Salman Rushdie Joseph Anton was published in 2012, but no memoir may be more relevant...
LitStack Review | When Franny Stands Up, by Eden Robins
I’ll be honest – I almost didn’t commit to this book. It seemed too close to Amazon Prime’s delightful series...
Litstack Recs | Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman & The Grind
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, with a foreword by Emma Thompson. Edited by Alan Taylor “Of all the...
LitStack Review | Head Wounds: Sparrow
Head Wounds: SparrowWritten by Brian BuccellatoStory by Robert Johnson and John AlveyArt by Christian Ward A Long Time Coming Okay,...
Litstack Recs I Reading Like a Writer & Twisted Fairy Tales
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them, by...
LitStack Recs | Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror & Till the End
Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror, edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto In their introduction to Tiny Nightmares:...
Litstack Recs | The Refugees, Stories by Viet Thanh Nguyen & The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
The Refugees: Stories, by Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer, the debut novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen, won the Pulitzer Prize...
litstack Recs | How Fiction Works & Shadow Run
How Fiction Works, by James Wood. When it comes to books on the craft of writing, I tend to gravitate...
Cosplay: A History by Andrew Liptak
From dressing up for Halloween, to donning appropriate period attire for the local Renaissance Festival, to gearing up for genre-focused...
Litstack Recs | Desperate Characters & Project Hail Mary
Desperate Characters, by Paula Fox Desperate Characters, recent edition. This classic of literary fiction, written in 1970, is also a...
Litstack Recs | The Sheltering Sky & The Space Between Worlds
The Sheltering Sky, by Paul Bowles Bowles is one of my favorite writers. His prose is stark yet rich, with...
Litstack Recs | We the Animals & Kitchens of the Great Midwest
Called "a dark jewel of a book," by Michael Cunningham, We the Animals, the 2011 debut novel by Justin Torres,...
Miserable Fiction
I was reading a book the other day. It was a very good book, extremely well written, very imaginative. The...
Litstack Recs| How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One & We Were Dreamers
For writers and readers, the sentence is the coin of the realm, the catch that keeps a reader securely in...
In Praise of Difficult Genre Fiction
A while back I was fortunate to read, in close succession, three masterful works in the science fiction/fantasy genre that...
Litstack Recs | The Wrong End of the Telescope & Company Town
The Wrong End of the Telescope: a novel by Rabih Alameddine Rabih Alameddine’s sixth book, which earlier this year won...
Featured Author| Wesley Chu: Making the Sausage
With Wesley Chu coming out with his newest amazing book The Art of Prophecy, it had me thinking back of...
Litstack Recs | Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden & The Last Wish – Introducing the Witcher
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, by Eleanor Perényi Writing and gardening share similarities: the same dogged tending, the...
Featured Author Review: Time Salvager by Wesley Chu
This week we continue our celebration of our August Featured Author, Wesley Chu with a review of THE RISE OF...
Litstack Recs| The Love of a Good Woman & The Red
The Love of a Good Woman, stories by Alice Munro The short story has few practitioners skilled as Alice Munro,...
Featured Author Review: The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu
Welcome, LitStackers, to a new month and our old favorite, the Featured Author segment. This month, we're celebrating the works...
Litstack Recs | The Films in My Life & Six-Gun Snow White
The Films in My Life, by Francois Truffaut We are lucky that Francois Truffaut was both a prolific filmmaker and...
Litstack Recs | Two titles from WTAW Press & Ninefox Gambit
Two Titles From WTAW Press The Groundhog Forever, by Henry Hoke In Henry Hoke's debut novel, two film students in...
Litstack Recs | The Good Soldier & If You Build It…
The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford If this novel had been published under the title the author selected, "The...
Litstack Recs | The UnAmericans & All the Horses of Iceland
The UnAmericans: Stories by Molly Antopol There’s a literary lineage to the strands of Jewish American literary tradition, contemporary and...
Litstack Recs | Less & A Wild Sheep Chase
Less, a novel: by Andrew Sean Greer Less, the author's sixth book and fifth novel, is a jewel-box of a...
Litstack Recs | Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father & Time Salvager
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, by Alysia Abbott “The truth is,” Alysia Abbott writes in her debut memoir, Fairyland:...
Litstack Recs | The Custom of the Country & The Resisters
The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton I knew from the start that things would go badly for Ralph Marvell. He’s...
Litstack Recs| A Writer’s Notebook & Dog Days
A Writer’s Notebook by Somerset Maugham Like most writers, I keep a notebook—not a journal, but a record of ideas,...
Litstack Recs | Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life & Monarca
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan William Finnegan’s 2016 memoir begins with an epigraph from Edward St. Aubyn’s...
