Shadow Run Adrianne Strickland and Michael Miller Delacorte Press Release Date: March 21, 2017 ISBN 978-0-399-55253-3 “Firefly meets Dune in this action-packed sci-fi adventure about a close-knit, found family of a crew navigating a galaxy of political intrigue and resource-driven power games.” Uh, oh. Anytime you invoke sci-fi classics – […]
Joss Whedon: The Biography Amy Pascale Chicago Review Press Incorporated Release Date: August 1, 2014 ISBN 978-1-61374-104-7 It seems a little strange that a biography is released for a personality who is not only relatively young, but who also is at the top of his game. Maybe the book should […]
We’ve got a lot of things on our minds this week. From the election of a new Pope to memories of our favorite children’s novels and the power of fan-funded artistic projects, our picks this week run the gamut of thoughts we’d like to share with you, LitStackers. Check out […]
Parade Magazine conducted an enlightening interview with Brown Coat/Castle actor Nathan Fillion on his love of books. According to the piece, Fillion says his love of the written word comes from his English teacher parents: Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if […]
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.