Litstack Recs | Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden & The Last Wish – Introducing the Witcher
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, by Eleanor Perényi Writing and gardening share similarities: the same dogged tending, the...
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Litstack Recs | Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father & Time Salvager
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, by Alysia Abbott “The truth is,” Alysia Abbott writes in her debut memoir, Fairyland:...
Litstack Recs | How to Write an Autobiographical Novel & When Women Were Dragons
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee "Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
Litstack Review – Blind Man’s Bluff, by James Tate Hill
Blind Man's Bluff: A Memoir, by James Tate Hill W. W. Norton & Company August 3, 2021 978-0-393-86717-6 “I wasn’t...
LitStack Review | Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brina
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir, by Elizabeth Miki BrinaKnopfFebruary 23, 2021978-0525657347 A child’s relationship with their parents can be difficult, especially...
Litstack Recs | Passage to Ararat & LaRose
Passage to Ararat, by Michael J. Arlen During the Armenian genocide, 1.2 million Armenians were systematically murdered between 1915 and...
Litstack Recs | Manhood for Amateurs & Ormeshadow
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son, essays by Michael Chabon There are some...
Litstack Recs | Epilogue – A Memoir & The Grind
Epilogue: A Memoir, by Will Boast Both a remembrance and a elegiac account of the loss of a family, Boast’s...
Litstack Recs: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel & Tranny
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee "Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
Litstack Recs |Spielberg, Truffaut and Me & Glow
Spielberg, Truffaut and Me: An Actor's Diary, by Bob Balaban With the Pentagon's recent release of three unclassified videos of...
Litstack Recs| How to Write an Autobiographical Novel & A Song for a New Day
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee "Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
Litstack Recs: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays & Wintering
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee “Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
LitStack Rec: This Boy’s Life and Landscape With Invisible Hand
This Boy's Life: A Memoir, by Tobias Wolff First published in 1989, Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life has become a classic...
Litstack Recs: Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood & American Born Chinese
Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood, by Teri Garr Each year, the Academy Awards always generates memorable images, and this year...
Litstack Rec: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel & The Cost of Hope
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee "Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
Litstack Recs: Fairyland & Scribe
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, by Alysia Abbott “The truth is," Alysia Abbot writes in her debut memoir, Fairyland:...
Our 2018 Favorite Reads
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, by Alexander CheeThe UnAmericans: Stories, by Molly AntopolThe Refugees: Stories, by Viet Thanh NguyenThe...
Litstack Rec: My Misspent Youth & Santa 17
My Misspent Youth, essays by Meghan Daum My introduction to Daum and her essays was Life Would Be Perfect If...
Litstack Rec: Dreams From My Father & Time Salvager
Dreams From My Father, by Barack Obama Stories that center on fathers have a distinct place in the memoir genre....
LitStack Recs: Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries & Brotherhood of the Wheel
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries, by Emma Thompson There's enough left of summer to fit in at least...
LitStack Rec: Two Award-Winning Titles from WTAW Press & Born A Crime
And There And There was Evening And There Was Morning, Essays on Illness, Loss, and Love,by Mike Smith The Truth...
Litstack Rec: Patrimony & Biggie
Patrimony: A True Story, by Philip Roth Roth's 1991 memoir charts the illness and death of his father, Herman Roth,...
LitStack Rec: Out of Place & Miranda and Caliban
Out of Place: A Memoir, by Edward Said Edward Said, the prolific author, political activist, pianist, and music critic rose...
LitStack Rec: Epilogue: A Memoir & Hounded
Epilogue: A Memoir, by Will Boast Both a remembrance and a elegiac account of the loss of a family, Boast's...
Litstaff Rec: The Oysters of Locmariaquer & Longbourn
The Oysters of Locmariaquer, by Eleanor Clark Late in Eleanor Clark’s extraordinary book, she tells us the oyster needs the...
Litstack Rec: Spielberg, Truffaut and Me & The Wanderers
Spielberg, Truffaut and Me: An Actor's Diary, by Bob Balaban In the summer of 1976, during the first weeks of...
LitStack Recs: Top reads & Winterdance
Are books, and stories, getting better? That is, are they getting richer, stronger, and more compelling? My answer is an...
LitStack Recs: Speedbumps & The Human Division
Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood, by Teri Garr Think of Teri Garr, the legendary actress turns 70 on December 11,...
Litstack Review: And There Was Evening And There Was Morning, by Mike Smith
And There was Evening And There Was Morning, Essays on Illness, Loss, and Love, by Mike Smith (WTAW Press) “Mourning,”...
LitStack Rec: Out of Place & Landscape with Invisible Hand
Out of Place: A Memoir, by Edward Said Edward Said, the prolific author, political activist, pianist, and critic who would...
Litstack Rec: Blood Will Out & Vinegar Girl
Blood Will Out, by Walter Kirn In Preston Sturges’ romantic comedy, “The Palm Beach Story,” Claudette Colbert plays Gerry, reluctant...
Litstack Rec: Barbarian Days & The Echo
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan William Finnegan's 2016 memoir begins with an epigraph from Edward St. Aubyn's...
LitStack Rec: Little Failure: A Memoir & Back Roads and Frontal Lobes
Little Failure: A Memoir, by Gary Shteyngart "In order for me to be born," Gary Shteyngart says early on in...
LitStack Rec: Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood & American Born Chinese
Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood, by Teri Garr Think of Teri Garr, and likely it’s as the outspoken girl next...
LitStack Recs: Passage to Ararat & War for the Oaks
Passage to Ararat, by Michael J. Arlen “It’s a dangerous business,” writes Clark Blaise in this book’s introduction, “going into...
LitStack Recs: The Oysters of Locmariaquer & Relics
The Oysters of Locmariaquer, by Eleanor Clark Late in Eleanor Clark’s extraordinary book, she tells us the oyster needs the...
LitStack Rec: How to Grow Old Disgracefully & Life on Mars
How to Grow Old Disgracefully: An Autobiography, by Hermione Gingold If you're a fan of classic films, say, Vincente Minnelli's...
LitStack Rec: Barbarian Days & A Taste of Honey
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan William Finnegan's 2016 memoir begins with an epigraph from Edward St. Aubyn's...
LitStack Recs: The Places In-Between & Vicious
The Places In-Between, by Rory Stewart In 2002, Rory Stewart made a walk across Afghanistan from Herat to Kabul. A...
LitStack Recs: Dreams From My Father & A Fort of Nine Towers
Dreams From My Father, by Barack Obama Stories that center on fathers have a distinct place in the memoir genre....
Litstack Recs: Green Thoughts & Children of Time
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, by Eleanor Perényi If you're a writer who gardens, Eleanor Perényi writes in...
LitStack Recs: Barbarian Days & Pride’s Spell
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan William Finnegan took his time writing this memoir. An international journalist and...
LitStaff Rec: Blood Will Out & Zombie Baseball Beatdown
Blood Will Out, by Walter Kirn In Preston Sturges’ romantic comedy, “The Palm Beach Story,” Claudette Colbert plays Gerry, reluctant...
Litstack Recs: Blue Nights & Lustlocked
Blue Nights, by Joan Didion Joan Didion's books have had a titanic effect on me, but when Blue Nights came out in...
LitStack Recs: Out of Place & The Grind
Out of Place: A Memoir, by Edward Said Edward Said, the prolific author, political activist, pianist and music critic rose...
LitStack Rec: Crash Course & The Library at Mount Char
Crash Course: essays from where writing and life collide, by Robin Black The third book from short story writer and...
Litstack Rec: Spielberg, Truffaut & Me and Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere
Spielberg, Truffaut and Me: An Actor's Diary, by Bob Balaban In the summer of 1976, during the first weeks of...
LitStack Rec: Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place & Moon Girl
Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place, by Annie Proulx The memoir by this award-winning novelist (The Shipping News) and story writer...
LitStack Recs: Patrimony – A True Story and Cloud Atlas
Patrimony: A True Story, by Philip Roth Roth's 1991 memoir charts the illness and death of his father, Herman Roth,...
LitStack Recs: Sex Criminals Vol. 1 & Fairyland
Sex Criminals Volume 1 – One Weird Trick Volume 2 – Two Worlds, One Cop Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky...
