It is a truth universally acknowledged that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but any Tolkien reader worth their salt knows that the real fun happens at second breakfast. Sure, “elevensies” rolls off the tongue more easily, but we all know that’s basically brunch. At second breakfast, you’ve had your coffee and [...]
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The other day I was listening to a cover of the Creedence Clearwater Revival song “Run Through the Jungle” performed by the L.A. psycho-billy/punk band The Gun Club. It’s off of what I think is their best album, “Miami,” a lush, reverb-haunted traipse through an emotional wasteland. If that’s a bit of a purple description, [...]
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The myth networks were found to have some of the characteristics, including the small-world property and structural balance (related to the idea that the enemy of my enemy is my friend), typical of real-world networks. Did someone from The Onion slip something into The New York Times? Is this what digital humanities means? How many [...]
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As word/tech geeks and (other) followers of Book Riot’s Facebook page know, Amazon on Thursday announced its new Kindle Serials, books released in an episodic format that could allow authors to modify their writing as they go based on reader (and buyer) response. After redefining how books are sold, published, and read, could this now [...]
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Here are the most read stores from the last week in Critical Linking…. If after five years, you don’t sell enough books to pay yourself–let alone an employee–and you have to get a teaching job for the benefits (as Ms. Welch did), you aren’t a bookseller, you are a hobbyist. The same logic could be applied to [...]
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Amazon unveiled its new line-up of Kindle Fires this week, with several new models ranging from a low-end 7-inch tablet for $199 to an 8.9-inch $499 model with 32GB of storage and 4G wireless connectivity. These prices undercut the similarly equipped Google Nexus 7 and the currently available iPads (new iPads are expected this month, [...]
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This week, the good folks at Blank on Blank unearthed a lost interview that Jason Feifer conducted with actress Amber Heard (The Rum Diary, Zombieland, Pineapple Express) in 2011. Feifer, who was working on a piece for Women’s Health magazine, expected the chat to focus on “Hollywood life, and her personal style, and all that [...]
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Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch!
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Our most popular posts from the week that was… It is one of the busiest bookstores in the world: it has more than a million visitors annually and sells more than 700,000 books a year. from Stunning Movie Theater Turned Bookstore by Jeff O’Neal _________________________ John Keats Here lies one whose name was writ on [...]
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This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Season of the Witch by Arni Thorarinsson. When the editors at Reykjavik-based The Afternoon News decide to expand the newspaper into northern Iceland — with their crime writer Einar as its sole reporter on location — the journalist feels as though he has stepped back in time. Compared to the [...]
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In a much-needed move, Amazon has updated the covers of its Kindle editions of Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. Amazon acquired exclusive print and digital rights to the series this spring, but until now had been using drab placeholder covers for the Kindle editions. These updated covers are a clear improvement, with simple, timeless images [...]
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On a recent trip to San Francisco, I stumbled onto a literary lagniappe: Matt, the incredibly well-read waiter at Café Jacqueline. It started off innocently enough. He must have overheard my friend and me talking about our love of novels about decrepit houses while he set down our luscious, aromatic puff of cheese soufflé (Jacqueline’s [...]
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Thomas Malory (c.1405- 1471) Though knighted and a historic author of note, Thomas Malory was in and out of jail for years on account of thievery, kidnapping, and (possibly) even rape. Wealthy (by his own merit or from what he had stolen), he bribed his way out of jail on more than one occasion and [...]
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a fantastic church-turned bookstore in The Netherlands, and I loved that project so much that I started looking around for other bookstores that used to be something else. The jewel of my findings so far is the El Ateneo in Buenos Aires. This gorgeous 1919 movie palace, [...]
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After a brief late summer hiatus, The Riot Read returns for September with Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. It’s a dark, enthralling, and terrifically bookish thriller set on a college campus. We thought a little conspiracy and murder would be a nice add-in to all of the back-to-school warm fuzzies. We’ll get started with some posts [...]
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Our weekly round-up of the best bookish lists floating around the internet. at The Yale Herald, Things the Yale Bookstore Has Instead of the Books You Need at The Huffington Post, 5 Most Awesomely Absurd Passages from the Novelization of ‘Battleship’ at Flavorwire, 19th-Century Writers Who Are Even More Relevant Today at Beyond the Margins, [...]
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On Wednesday, 12th September at 9am the author will let her social network followers know that the first session is about to begin. By using the Google Docs cloud-based office suite, the author will start with a blank document and begin to write. Fans will be provided with a public-accessible web page (open document) [...]
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As I write this on August 29, 2012, my sister is in labor. This is her first child. Not to make this all about me, but by the end of the day today I will be an auntie–at least this is what I think I want to be called. Or tia. Tia E has a [...]
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