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3 Books to Read Before You See THE GREAT GATSBY
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a story about alluring surfaces and rotted insides, about … Read the full post
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Flowchart Feature: Which Poem Should You Read?
It’s April 30th. Have you read your poem yet? You know how it is. You see the blog posts about … Read the full post
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Committing It To Memory
My last post, about reading out loud, has naturally lead me to the consideration of what we memorize. … Read the full post
Xbox, Cylon, and Other Words You Don’t Usually See in Poetry
When it comes to poetry, timelessness is a red herring, or a white elephant, or some other distractingly … Read the full post
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Sunday Diversion: The Deaths of Minor American Poets
My favorite poetry anthology is The Oxford Book of American Poetry. It has a diverse and representative … Read the full post
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Anne Carson and Edward Hopper’s “Room in Brooklyn”: The Poetry of Art
In hissing flames huge silver bars are roll’d, And stubborn brass, and tin, and solid gold [. … Read the full post
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They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: April 9, 2013
Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive … Read the full post
Literary Pet Names: Feline Edition
When my partner, Ashley, and I got our first cat, about 18 months ago, the hardest part was choosing … Read the full post
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Inbox/Outbox: April 5, 2013
Spring fever has set in, and I just want to lie around in the sunshine reading books and drinking … Read the full post
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Genre Kryptonite: Novels by Poets
This is a guest post from Sean Bell. Sean s a Scots-Irish-Armenian writer based in Edinburgh. His … Read the full post
Wearing O’ the Green: Irish Literature for St. Patrick’s Day
In a few days everyone will be Irish and blarney-talking and drinking and shillelagh dragging … Read the full post
Erasure Poetry, HEART OF DARKNESS, and the Language of Conflict
In recent years, I’ve been a steady listener to the Poetry Off the Shelf podcast produced by the … Read the full post
“Hold Fast to Dreams”: Happy Birthday, Langston Hughes
From “Dreams” (1941) by Langston Hughes, born February 1, 1902.
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Three Williams: My Life With a Trio of Dead Poets
This is a guest post by Rosie Schaap. She has been a bartender, a fortuneteller, a librarian at a … Read the full post
Best of Book Riot: Books to Read When You’re Blue
To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six … Read the full post
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Best of Book Riot: A Bookish Wedding Retold
To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six … Read the full post
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Thoughts About the 2012 Goodreads Choice Award Winners
1,156,852 votes were cast this year in the Goodreads Choice Awards. That number makes me so happy … Read the full post
Celebrate Emily Dickinson’s Birthday by Singing Her Poems to the Gilligan’s Island Theme Song
It seems to be a truth almost universally acknowledged that you can sing Emily Dickinson’s poems … Read the full post
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Book Riot’s Best Books of 2012
Editor’s note: We challenged our contributors to choose their top 2 books of 2012. Some were … Read the full post
Three Awesome Poetry Books You Should Read
We don’t talk about poetry enough! Not here at Book Riot, not in life, not anywhere. Poetry … Read the full post
