Last week, we launched a Kickstarter campaign to publish our first book, Start Here: Read Your Way Into 25 Amazing Authors. The book is designed to help readers dive into work from authors they’ve always wanted to read but haven’t because they didn’t know where to start. It will cover classic to contemporary lit from a range [...]
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So I’m pulling ALL my work from the iBookstore today. I apologize to iBookstore fans. I tried. Hard. This is one thing I think readers won’t stand; digital distributors of books blocking titles because of content that is not only legal, but completely unobjectionable except that it might strengthen a competitor. If this is accurate, [...]
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Living in Kansas City*, I’ve been much exposed to this week’s news that Google has finally unveiled its new Google Fiber “gigabit” Internet service, which promises uploads and downloads about 100 times faster than via a basic cable modem. And for the time being, it will only be available to folks living in Kansas City, [...]
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Here are the most read stories from the last week in Critical Linking… To get to the million-dollar mark for debut fiction this year, it apparently helps to have a female teenage protagonist. Surprisingly unsurprising. ____________________________ Indeed, the casual mention in Gatsby might lead one to believe that it was just a city he’d read about or [...]
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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… Any Victorian novel ever Have you ever met a girl that you’re tryin’ to date, but a year to make love she wanted you to wait? (“Just A Friend” by Biz Markie) From If Hip-Hop Lyrics Were Book Blurbs by Rebecca Joines-Schinsky ____________________________ 2. Joseph [...]
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Working with Kepler’s board and a bankruptcy lawyer, he’s pursuing a creative two-part structure: On one side, a nonprofit organization will support Kepler’s author readings and community outreach programs; on the other, shares in the for-profit bookstore will be sold to its wealthy fans and customers. Get creative or go home in the book [...]
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This winter, my Confidence Index on the film of Cloud Atlas was skeptical. OK, OK, I put on my Doubting Jane judgypants and said: “I sense they’re creating a platinum-coated dog’s breakfast.” I’ve just seen the Cloud Atlas trailer. I hope to eat those judgypants. Of course, there are many dazzling shots: the Papa Song [...]
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This recent re-reading of The Great Gatsby has got me thinking, again, about its popularity and its status. It’s not only widely-read, but it’s also critically acclaimed. In fact, on a graph where one axis is popularity and one axis is acclaim, Gatsby probably covers more surface area than any other American novel. But does [...]
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I spend a lot of time nonsensing around the internet, and found myself chatting (as I often do) with regular Riot reader and all-around cool guy Peter. We were talking about the Life of Pi film, and how I’m pretty sure it will break my tiny heart, but how Peter really ought to read the [...]
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After books themselves, no objects quite get a reader’s heart a-pounding like some awesome bookshelves. The five below bookshelves don’t just sit there with books on them; they spin, collapse, and transform to fit your ever-changing collection. Now, if only they were activated by pulling on a secret book-lever… Mix Boxes I want a [...]
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Our weekly round-up of the best bookish lists floating around the internet. at Vogue, Required Reading: 30+ Best Bets to Pick Up This Summer at Flavorwire, 10 Stories of Famous Literary Exiles at Terrible Minds, 25 Things You Should Know About Antagonists at LitReactor, 5 Ways Your Brain Sabotages Your Writing…And What to Do About [...]
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Earlier this week, we launched a Kickstarter campaign to publish our first book. START HERE is all about helping readers get into authors they’ve always wanted to read but haven’t because they don’t know where to start. Margaret Atwood’s books are awesome, and there are A LOT of them. We hear from readers all the time who [...]
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Morrison was asked about Slade’s death on Oprah Winfrey’s television show last year, and rejected the idea of getting any kind of “closure” as “some kind of insult”. I thought I couldn’t love Toni Morrison any more than I already do. I was wrong. ____________________________ ‘One of the points in our guidelines will be [...]
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We’ve already acknowledged that it’s damn near impossible to have just one favorite quote from Gatsby. And we’ve binged on favorite quotes from the first four chapters. The inaugural Riot Read is wrapping up, so if you have a favorite quote or passage from the second half of the book, share it in this thread on [...]
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You can submit your guess using the form below after any clue, but if you’re wrong, you’re out for the week. So you’ve got to pick your spot. Too early and you might be wrong; wait until you’re sure, and you might get scooped. [HINT: This week's answer is one of the authors on our longlist of [...]
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This is going to be an exegesis on the famous last line of The Great Gatsby: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” I’m friends with a lot of high school English teachers, and so many of them have quoted this line to me over the years, and [...]
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