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LitStack Review: The Wanderers by Meg Howrey

4 years ago Sharon Browning

The Wanderers Meg Howrey G. P. Putnam's Sons Release Date: March 14, 2017 ISBN 978-0-3995-7473-4 This book...wow. I read a...

Gimbling in the Wabe

Gimbling in the Wabe – Wherein Andy Weir Blows My Mind (well, kinda sorta)

5 years ago Sharon Browning

I didn't know anything about Andy Weir until I read his novel, The Martian. It even took me a while...

LitStack Review: The Martian by Andy Weir

6 years ago Sharon Browning

The Martian Andy Weir Crown Publishers Release Date: February 11, 2014 (self published in 2011) ISBN 978-0-8041-3902-1 Now, wait just...

Birthdays

On this day, July 29, in 1965, novelist Chang-Rae Lee was born in South Korea (his family immigrated to the United States when he was three years old). He is the author of six novels so far, which have brought him a PEN/Hemingway Award (for Native Speaker), an Asian/American Literary Award (for A Gesture Life), a Dayton Literary Peace Prize as well as a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his 2010 novel The Surrendered, and finalist status for 2014’s On Such a Full Sea for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His latest work, My Year Abroad, was published this February. Today he turns 56.