Opinion

Our Favorite Timeless Plots

1 year ago LitStackEditor

There are seven stories in the world. It's a well used maxim and not necessarily true. (Kipling, for example, claimed...

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The Best/Worst Writing Advice We’ve Ever Received

6 years ago LitStack Editors

Everyone has an opinion. Especially writers. We've been around enough writers to know that we all have a different approach...

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The Fictional Places We’d Love to Call Home

6 years ago LitStack Editors

Fiction is an amazing tool of escapism. With it, we dive into worlds that exist only in the writer's mind,...

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LitStack Recs: The Firefox Book & Three Parts Dead

7 years ago Lauren Alwan

The Firefox Book, by Elliot Wigginton (editor) Perfect for #throwbackthursday, this compendium of customs and rural living practices was published...

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LitStaff Picks

Best/Worst Surprise Endings

7 years ago LitStack Editors

Some authors love to pull whammies on us. Sometimes, there's nothing better than an evil plot twist, because, well, who...

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LitStack Recs: Realms of This Boy’s Life

8 years ago LitStackEditor

This Boy's Life: A Memoir, by Tobias Wolff (Grove Press, 1989) There is no doubt, that as a staple of...

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LitStack Rec: Beautiful Science and the Chicago Coast

8 years ago LitStackEditor

We are proud to present our very first in a new feature on LitStack. In the LitStack Rec segment we...

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“Sweet Children” and Trust

8 years ago K. Imani Tennyson

I remember when I first received my first Harlequin book. I was 13 years old. I don’t remember anything about...

Five Great Post 9/11 Novels

8 years ago LitStackEditor

September 11, 2001, I was an undergraduate taking my daily 45 minute drive to my university, listening to the radio,...

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LitStaff Pick: The Books We Wish We Could Read Again for the First Time

8 years ago LitStack Editors

There's nothing quite like the first read. Whether it's a newborn entry into Hogwarts or the initial fright of a...

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Opinion

Our Favorite Timeless Plots

The Best/Worst Writing Advice We’ve Ever Received

The Fictional Places We’d Love to Call Home

LitStack Recs: The Firefox Book & Three Parts Dead

Best/Worst Surprise Endings

LitStack Recs: Realms of This Boy’s Life

LitStack Rec: Beautiful Science and the Chicago Coast

“Sweet Children” and Trust

Five Great Post 9/11 Novels

LitStaff Pick: The Books We Wish We Could Read Again for the First Time

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