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Why Books Provide Ballast
Among the many nuggets of fine prose in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, one stood out. Great writing gives … Read the full post
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Here Comes the Scribe: A Bookish Wedding Retold
Reader, I married her. Wearing tweed. Surrounded by vintage books. Pablo Neruda was there. As was … Read the full post
Sixteen MORE Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else
It seems a lot of people have a lot of love for Calvin and Hobbes. When I compiled the first list … Read the full post
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Redux
Alan Moore will hate this post. He seems to despise anyone tampering with his work. It is, after all, … Read the full post
Dancing In The Library: The Great Bookish Songbook – Vol. 2
My mission is a simple but powerful one: to create the greatest list of songs with literary connections … Read the full post
Exclusive: Cormac McCarthy To Write New James Bond Novel (In My Head)
Literature is not something to let death get in the way of a good story. Ian Fleming died nearly 50 … Read the full post
The ‘Middlemarch’ Tongue Burn: Books That School Ruined
George Eliot’s most famous doorstop Middlemarch is getting a lot of love these days. The Paris … Read the full post
Best of Book Riot: 16 Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anybody Else
Today is Book Riot’s half-birthday–that’s right, we’re six months old today. … Read the full post
Is There Such a Thing as an American Novel?
The Great American Novel is like Moby Dick, the whale, not the book. Ever since the phrase was coined … Read the full post
Your Currently-Reading Pile: “Just One Shot” or Book Mixology?
When it comes to reading, are you more Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter or Al Pacino in Scarface? … Read the full post
The Secret Lives of Bookmarks
My bookmark has been one of the few constants in life over the past 13 years. Friendships, relationships, … Read the full post
The Roald Dahl Survival Guide For Kids
Only two books have been so good to demand insomnia of me until they were completed. One was The Great … Read the full post
A Hatchet Job on Hatchet Job of the Year
“That’s not an epiphany, that’s a postcard.” And with that sweet sign-off, last week … Read the full post
Sixteen Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else
To paraphrase E.B. White, the perfect sentence is one from which nothing can be added or removed. … Read the full post
To Build A Digital Canon: Who Are The Great Self-ePublished Authors?
Maybe it’s my innate optimism. It could be my faith in the inexhaustible creativity of mankind. … Read the full post
GENRE KRYPTONITE: Screwed-Up Journalist Novels
GENRE KRYPTONITE is a regular feature about genres we have an inexplicable weak spot for. Check out previous … Read the full post
On Breaking Spines
I have a problem. I think many of you share it. It usually arises after sustained exposure to books … Read the full post
What’s your favourite word? An obvious question with an unobvious answer
I am going off-piste with this post. It’s about neither reading nor books, but rather the very atomic … Read the full post
J’accuse! Book-to-Movie Adaptations
Last week on Book Riot, Jeff O’Neal laid out his theory about why books translate so readily into … Read the full post
If bathroom fittings could write… and other thoughts of Dave Eggers
Ever wondered what your shower would say to you? Dave Eggers has. The McSweeney’s founder and literary … Read the full post
