In Growing Up With …, Jenn features picture books, middle reader, and teen books linked together by concept or theme. ____________________________ It wasn’t until I saw the The Iron Giant at the not-so-tender age of 20 that I realized robots could be cuddly, as well as terrifying. (I blame all those early-‘90s weekend reruns of The Terminator [...]
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To Kill A Mockingbird pencil set: I love these pencils wrapped in the pages of Harper Lee’s beloved classic. Book cleaner: Available on Book Shop, Absorene book cleaner gently and safely draws dust and dirt from paper and fabric. Vintage card catalog drawers: These perfectly worn-out card catalog drawers would give a beautiful touch to any home library. Novel-T’s: Support your favorite [...]
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Furthermore, two-thirds of American counties — 66 percent! — had exactly 0 bookstores. It was a relatively tiny business centered in the urban areas of the country. Did some great books come out back then? Of course! But they were aimed only at the tiny percentage of the country that was visible to publishers of [...]
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Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch the trailer.
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Well. Book Expo America 2012 is finally over, and we’re either recovering from the long days and blistered feet (if we attended), or consoling ourselves that there’s always next year (if we didn’t). I know there have been many wrap-up posts, but I wanted to reflect on one of my biggest revelations from the show: [...]
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This special edition of Name That Author! is sponsored by The Reckoning by Alma Katsu. Alma Katsu delivers the highly anticipated follow-up to her haunting novel about an immortal woman learning firsthand that the heart wants what the heart wants…no matter how high the stakes. Fans of The Taker can finally indulge in their next juicy fix [...]
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This is a question we’ve been thinking about a lot lately at Riot Central, and it’s one we asked many of the folks we met at BEA. Answers were all over the board: Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Morrison (gasp!), James Joyce, John Irving, even the late, great Ray Bradbury. My own is Ernest Hemingway, which [...]
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For those gentle readers who did not attend, ignored, or otherwise had no idea that there was such a thing as Book Expo America, bear wtih me as I refer to this publishing-industry trade show once more. Quite a few of us either literally and/or figuratively added many new titles to our TBR piles last [...]
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I am terrible with authors. I already knew this because of how awkward I get at events at the bookstore where I work, but it was confirmed at this year’s Book Expo America. I met several authors while either standing in their signing lines or at the American Booksellers Association reception, and I always managed [...]
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Last week, this little country mouse left cozy New Hampshire behind and attended Book Expo America in NYC – holy cats, it was awesome! I got to meet authors, book reps, and fellow Book Rioters and booksellers. The publishers had booths on the show floor, where they displayed upcoming titles, and THEY GAVE ME BOOKS. [...]
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OK, so they didn’t walk into a bar, and I don’t really know how these deals happen, but do you remember back in February when we didn’t know who Sugar (from The Rumpus) was, and she was having her “coming out” party because her book was being published? Fast-forward three months, and said book has [...]
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Unlike newspapers, most magazines didn’t have large classified-ad sections to lose to the internet, and their material has a longer shelf-life. Above all, says David Carey, the boss of Hearst Magazines, a big American publisher, they represent aspirations: “they do a very good job of inspiring your dreams.” People identify closely with the magazines they [...]
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This installment of Name That Author! is sponsored by Serpent’s Kiss by Melissa de la Cruz. Joanna and her daughters, bookish Ingrid and wild-child Freya, are just settling into the newfound peace that has been cast over their small, off-the map town of North Hampton. With the centuries-old restriction against practicing magic lifted, casting spells, mixing potions, [...]
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Summer reading should include some poetry, is what I tell myself, as a kind of a challenge, but it should not be too challenging. Perfect for the beach or the lake or the mountains is haiku. A collection worth putting in your raffia beach bag is The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa, [...]
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It’s easy, in the excitement of Book Expo America, to forget that the literary world keeps rolling on outside the Javits Center. When I’m there, I’m laser-focused on what’s happening at the show, but I’ve been one of those who watches from home, too, and I remember thinking, “Hey, there’s still lots of stuff going [...]
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What’s with all the decapitated literary heads lately? First there was the reappearance of the Philip K. Dick robotic head, something that I’d forgotten had disappeared in the first place. The story is that in 2005, the roboticist David Hanson built what appeared to be a flawless robotic replica of Philip K. Dick’s head. On [...]
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This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. It’s the year 2044, and-like most of humanity-Wade Watts vastly prefers the online utopia known as the OASIS to an increasingly grim, poverty-stricken real world. Like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket [...]
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The Editors’ Buzz panel, in which six editors each present their most highly anticipated title for fall, is Book Expo America’s signature kick-off event and the launchpad for books readers will be talking about for months to come. You might have heard of a few of the ones featured last year–little books like The Night [...]
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Check out the bookish goodies we found at Book Expo America this week. This writer’s clock from Linda Rohrbough will reassure you that your seemingly weird writer habits are not so weird after all. Say goodbye to writer’s block and hello to that much-needed adult beverage. _________________________ We stopped by the Out of Print Clothing [...]
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“The New York Times Book Review is run by Sam Tanenhaus, who is very much a neocon, and makes a point whenever a progressive comes out with a book to find someone who will attack it,” Krugman said. Any why should new media want to be like traditional media exactly? ____________________________ In other words reviewers/critics [...]
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