Litstack Recs: Fleabag & Speak Easy

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Last week, when the Emmy nominations were announced, the BBC Three series Fleabag received eleven nominations—for writing, acting, and direction, and no wonder. Written by and starring creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge in the eponymous role, the series is a marvel of wit and dark humor. Broadcast in the US on Amazon […]

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

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Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward The story has been called a bookend to Richard Nixon’s, a tale of hubris, an account akin to a ticking clock. Of Bob Woodward’s Fear: Trump in the White House, George Packer wrote in the New Yorker, the book “belongs on […]

LitStack Recs: Stoner & Speak Easy

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Stoner, by John Williams John Williams’ 1965 novel went out of print after selling only 2,000 copies, but since its re-release by Vintage in 1995, this novel of a Midwestern academic’s insular life has appeared on bestseller lists in Europe and Israel and sold over 100,000 copies. Stoner seems at […]

Bizarre Fairy Tale Adaptations

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Our friends at Flavorwire published a pretty cool post on some of the strangest, most bizarre fairy tale adaptations. These certainly aren’t your granny’s fairy tales; these are out-there literary adaptations of fairy tales (which, let’s be honest, started out pretty strange in the first place) to add to your […]

LitStack Pick: The Lines We Wish We’d Written

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I have a favorite line, several in fact, that have become a part of my subconscious. Sometimes, I spit them out as advice, so often, in fact, that I forget where I read them. 124 was spiteful. That’s a favorite and it’s Toni Morrison. Like Stephen King, mentioned below, Morrison’s […]