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LitStack Review: Envy of Angels by Mark Wallace

Envy of Angels Matt Wallace Tor.com Release Date: October 20, 2015 ISBN 978-0-7653-8528-4 What a strange, perverse, hilarious and utterly entertaining little book this is! Sin du Jour is a private catering and events company based in Long Island City. Run by Chef Byron “Bronko” Luck, a former purveyor of […]

LitStack Review: The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster by Scott Wilbanks

The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster Scott Wilbanks Sourcebooks Landmark Release Date: August 4, 2015 The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster will be released on August 4, 2015. Be sure to reserve your copy today! Annabelle “Annie” Aster is, by choice, a most singular young lady. Or, “a sincere woman […]

LitStack Review: Submergence by J.M. Ledgard

Submergence J.M. Ledgard Coffee House Press First Edition: April 1, 2013 ISBN 978-1-56689-319-0 It’s an age-old story: boy meets girl, they fall in love then are separated by obligations, with the question of whether or not they end up together in the final chapter. However, J.M. Legard’s novel Submergence is […]

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On this day, April 13, in 1909, was born in Jackson, Mississippi. Author of over forty short stories, five novels, three works of nonfiction, and one children’s book, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and numerous O. Henry Awards, and was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom, a National Medal of Arts, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, as well as being named a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur by the French government. Her works captured the quintessential Southern voice with an emphasis on family and customs, with a strong sense of place. She died from natural causes in 2001; she was 92.

Birthdays

On this day, December 3, in 1857, Joseph Conrad was born in Berdichev, Imperial Russia (modern
Ukraine, then a part of Poland). While he settled in England and wrote in English, he always considered himself a Pole. Heart of Darkness, one of the most famous of his 20 novels (which explores colonialism and the attitudes regarding what constitutes a barbarian versus civilized society) is considered one of the best English novels of the 20th century, as is his novel Lord Jim, which chronicles a crew’s abandonment of its disabled ship. Conrad died in England in 1924 at age 66.