Today is Towel Day, an annual commemoration of the life and work of Douglas Adams. In his best-known work, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Adams explained the supreme utility of the towel in intergalactic travel: “…it has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold [...]
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I hate to admit it, but I’ve never read Douglas Adams’ classic trilogy in five parts, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. For many, many years I have heard reference to Towel Day, and I finally decided to do a little research. Through the magic of YouTube, I learned that there’s a certain logic to all the nonsense. [...]
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In the name of Towel Day and general hilarity, Rioters Preeti and Jenn are rereading the entire Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. When did you first pick up Hitchhiker’s? Why? JN: As a girl with an older brother who was into sci-fi (and who ruined his eyesight as a teenager by staying up [...]
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A look at the most popular posts from the week that was… Rereads must be earned because there are too many great books out there to read an okay one twice. My guaranteed rereads are: classics like Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and the Alice books; Margaret Atwood and Sarah Waters novels; beloved series like Harry Potter, His [...]
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Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch! ____________________ Sign up for our newsletter to have the best of Book Riot delivered straight to your inbox every two weeks. No spam. We promise. To keep up with Book Riot on a daily basis, follow us [...]
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After recent revelations that British poet Christian Ward had been found passing off other people’s poems as his own, this new story seems merely to confirm that poets can be as unscrupulous as Canadian senators. Those Canadians and their scandals. _________________________ Shakespeare wrote his finest work while living in Southwark, and he enjoyed the local beer [...]
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This is the part where I should write something interesting and witty about it almost being summer, and how I’m looking forward to going to the beach and being eaten by a shark, or whatever it is people do at the beach, but really, I just want to talk about books! So here are this [...]
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The Book Riot Podcast, Episode #3: The Gandalf of Poetry Jeff and Rebecca talk about finishing Dan Brown’s Inferno, along with discussions Stephen King’s new print-only novel, Amazon’s foray into fan-fiction, turning unproduced movies into books, a hypothetical app to see what the people around you are reading, and the vagaries of airplane reading. This week’s [...]
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I’m not going to say I was excited to see NBC’s new Dracula series, which they’ve just picked up to series and are scheduling for Fridays this fall. I like to save the word “excited” for sentences like “I hear ice cream truck music coming down my street and I’m excited because I have three [...]
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You may have heard: Arrested Development is coming back. Seven years after being canceled by Fox (when it got lower ratings than Pamela Anderson’s sitcom, Stacked), the show has been revived by Netflix. Fans are, consequently, all —and who can blame them? It’s been nearly a decade since campaigns to save the critically-acclaimed show failed and several [...]
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Recently, some dust was thrown up regarding why women-only prizes should be a thing. While I think it unfair that the need for a separate women’s prize in literature exists, I think it’s a good thing. Also, the more literary prizes, the better, right? I don’t choose books based on the gender of a writer, at least not [...]
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We’re posting early this month as we prepare to go into “Best of Book Riot” mode for Memorial Day and Book Expo next week. Enjoy! All That Is by James Salter It has been more than 30 years since Salter last published a novel. He’s granite. He’s damp skin. He’s an unflinching eye. I don’t know [...]
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It’s the last day in our Kickstarter campaign to publish START HERE, Vol. 2, a book designed to help you read your way into 25 amazing authors you’ve wanted to try but haven’t known where to start. It’s important to us that the Book Riot community has a hand in shaping the things we make, so we [...]
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It’s the LAST DAY in our Kickstarter campaign to publish START HERE, Vol. 2, a collection designed to help you read your way into 25 amazing authors you’ve always wanted to try but haven’t known where to start. Time’s a-tickin’ and need your help to keep getting the word out! Our friends at Pop Chart Lab have given us [...]
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This week’s List List is sponsored by Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. Only her past can save her…and only she can save the future Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human [...]
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Reducing an entire genre to one person’s books as a source of comparison is limiting and reductive of the nuances, the depth, and the range of voices that exist within it. Believe it or not, John Green is not the be all, end all of contemporary realistic YA fiction. I hope you have your [...]
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As a geek who divides his time between books and video games, I seriously cherish those wonderful moments when literature and gaming find a common ground. Like when a game has a series of well written tie-in novels or you’re able to fight Agatha Christie as Edgar Allen Poe. Recently Spry Fox!, a game developer from Seattle, announced a new [...]
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Today’s round of Name Those Authors! is sponsored by our new Kickstarter project, Start Here: Read Your Way Into 25 Amazing Authors, Volume 2. There’s only one day left to back the project! Pre-order your copy of the ebook for $5 and check out the other awesome goodies available. Say you’ve always wanted to read something by [...]
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The national news may not have picked this up, but there was an important story out of DC last weekend. Gathering in our nation’s capitol, a panel of experts declared that the picture book is in fact alive and well. The panel was held at Politics & Prose (DC’s preeminent independent bookseller) and featured some [...]
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Poetry Skirt: For the more skilled DIYer, a piece of poetry to embroider and wear. Novel Cheeseboard: Spare your actual books the knife marks and grease spots, with bookish teak cheeseboards. Charles Bukowski Onesie: For the future hipster babies everywhere. Because who hasn’t peed in the sink? Metroros Print: Game of Thrones’ Westeros as a [...]
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