Catherynne M. Valente

Litstack Recs: Fleabag & Speak Easy

2 years ago Lauren Alwan

Last week, when the Emmy nominations were announced, the BBC Three series Fleabag received eleven nominations—for writing, acting, and direction,...

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Litstack Rec Fear: Trump in the White House & Six Gun Snow White

2 years ago LitStackEditor

Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward The story has been called a bookend to Richard Nixon's, a...

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LitStack Recs: Stoner & Speak Easy

6 years ago Lauren Alwan

Stoner, by John Williams John Williams’ 1965 novel went out of print after selling only 2,000 copies, but since its...

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Bizarre Fairy Tale Adaptations

8 years ago LitStackEditor

Our friends at Flavorwire published a pretty cool post on some of the strangest, most bizarre fairy tale adaptations. These...

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LitStack Pick: The Lines We Wish We’d Written

9 years ago LitStackEditor

I have a favorite line, several in fact, that have become a part of my subconscious. Sometimes, I spit them...

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Birthdays

On this day, July 30, in 1818, Emily Brontë was born in the village of Thornton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The middle child of the three literary Brontë sisters, Emily was extremely shy and had very few friends or acquaintances beyond her family, often leaving the household only to go to church or to take walks in the surrounding countryside. Her only novel was Wuthering Heights, a surprisingly passionate book to have been written by such a shy and retiring soul. She never was able to realize the success of her book, for she died of tuberculosis a year after its publication, at age 30.