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Litstack Recs | #StayHome Summer Reads & The Resisters

12 months ago Lauren Alwan

The summer of 2020 is unlike those past—no traveling, no baseball games, limited beach and park time, if any, and...

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LitStack Rec: Cutting Teeth & The Dead Lands

4 years ago LitStackEditor

Cutting Teeth, by Julia Fierro For those who have young children, there's a lovely innocence to summer—its sprinklers and days...

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LitStack Recs: Cutting Teeth & Back Roads and Frontal Lobes

6 years ago Lauren Alwan

Cutting Teeth, by Julia Fierro When October comes, I'm always caught off guard by how quickly summer has gone. Afternoons...

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Gimbling in the Wabe: Words of Power

9 years ago Sharon Browning

When I was young, we were not allowed to swear. Nor to take the name of the Lord in vain. ...

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On this day, July 29, in 1965, novelist Chang-Rae Lee was born in South Korea (his family immigrated to the United States when he was three years old). He is the author of six novels so far, which have brought him a PEN/Hemingway Award (for Native Speaker), an Asian/American Literary Award (for A Gesture Life), a Dayton Literary Peace Prize as well as a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his 2010 novel The Surrendered, and finalist status for 2014’s On Such a Full Sea for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His latest work, My Year Abroad, was published this February. Today he turns 56.

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Litstack Recs | #StayHome Summer Reads & The Resisters

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LitStack Recs: Cutting Teeth & Back Roads and Frontal Lobes

Gimbling in the Wabe: Words of Power

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