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LitStack Review: Envy of Angels by Mark Wallace

Published on : 1 June, 201631 May, 2016 Published by : Sharon Browning

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

Published on : 29 July, 201528 July, 2015 Published by : Sharon Browning

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

Published on : 25 July, 201324 July, 2013 Published by : Sharon Browning

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 […]

On this day, January 22, in 1788, George Gordon Byron – better known as Lord Byron – was born in
London, England. The flamboyant writer is considered one of the greatest British poets and a major figure of the Romantic movement. His life was one of excess and sexual liberties, and he was associated with many romantic liaisons including a scandalous affair with his half-sister. Known for his lengthy poems Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and the short poem She Walks in Beauty, he died of a violent fever at age 36 while fighting the Ottoman Empire in Greece (where he is still hailed as a national hero). His only legitimate child, Ada Lovelace, was a pioneer of modern computing.

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.

LitStack Review: Envy of Angels by Mark Wallace

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

LitStack Review: Submergence by J.M. Ledgard

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