Looking ahead at the movie landscape for the rest of 2013 is much like looking ahead at the movie landscape in any given year. As always, sprinkled in amongst all the superhero sequels and reboots, horror flicks, rom-coms, and indies are a fair few literary adaptations, including Baz Luhrman’s The Great Gatsby, Joss Whedon’s Much [...]
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Over the course of his 82 years Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe attracted many titles. To some he was the Father of African Literature. To others he was the Great Slayer of Colonial Fiction. To me, well, he simply changed my world. My encounter with Achebe is rather generic. I have read only one of his [...]
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32 square feet. One door. One window. One skylight. One bed. One table. A wall of bookshelves. And that’s it. The Read Nest was built for a private client by Danish architect Dorte Mandrup. The whole birch/plywood structure was built off-site so as not to disturb the future owner’s woodland propert, and can be relocated [...]
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Barnes & Noble is also pressing Simon & Schuster for more compensation, such as costs associated with in-store promotions. Publishers typically give retailers money to cover certain store marketing costs. The retailer is arguing that its stores serve as the primary way for consumers to discover new writers, say people familiar with the situation. [...]
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This post originally appeared at our sister site, Food Riot. Pop over and dig in! Cathy Barrow, an avid home cook, home fruit preserver, pickler, butcher, baker and cheesemaker, who writes about home food preservation and other topics for the New York Times, the Washington Post and on her blog, Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Kitchen and I were discussing on Twitter the favorite [...]
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Here are the most read stories from the last week in Critical Linking… The story began with what appeared to be just another young woman’s crush on Eddie Waittkus, the Chicago Cubs’ handsome first baseman. So complete was this crush that the teenager set a place for Waitkus, whom she’d never met, at the family [...]
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There’s a special pleasure in the news that a favorite author who takes a long time between books is coming out with a new title. And so it is that Donna Tartt fans are excited about her third novel, The Goldfinch, coming out this fall. Yesterday, the cover of the new book was revealed along [...]
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The first is from my favorite poem, In the Desert by Stephen Crane. The other is from The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters. I just loved it so much. BECAUSE TRUE. from The Literary Tattoos of Team Book Riot by Rebecca Joines-Schinsky ________________________ Of Book Riot Readers’ Favorite 50 novels, 13% of the non-public domain novels are still print-only [...]
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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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Third quarter sales of the Hunger Games trilogy were significantly lower than our expectations, particularly in the U.S., Canada and Australia. Everyone bought the trilogy when the first movie came out. Why would they buy it again? ____________________ The letters do not yield steamy intimate detail. But they do make clear that Cather’s primary emotional [...]
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My forty-eighth printing paperback copy of Flannery O’Connor’s The Complete Stories knocked me right out of my socks and head first into my undying love affair of Southern fiction. Robert Penn Warren and I graduated from the same high school, but even with our most famous alum winning a Pulitzer my literary education was [...]
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We’re in the midst of Spring Break season, and my long weekend in New Orleans led to a bit of a book-buying binge. I won’t bore you with a complete list of randomness, but I will share some of the highlights. Inbox (Books Acquired) The Mapmaker’s War by Ronlyn Domingue - I gave in to one of [...]
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Inspired by Rebecca Schinsky’s piece, I couldn’t help but seek out some of the most ridiculous titles in print. Don’t worry, there are more to come. ***** If you need this book, perhaps your boyfriend should also be nervous. ***** Oh, yes: the joy. ***** Mmmm, a very cheesy guide to positive thinking? **** There [...]
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You guys, I’ve been in such a Homeric mood ever since finishing Madeline Miller’s retelling of the Iliad Song of Achilles. My fiancé and I were joking the other day about what our Homeric epithets would be. Which got me thinking- what would OTHER people’s epithets be? Specifically the fifty most famous people in the [...]
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A couple weeks ago, Jeff asked you to name your favorite living writer. And because he’s nice and knows how hard it is to name just one, he let you pick three! 578 readers took the poll (that’s a tiny portion of the Book Riot community, but we think it’s a decent sample size) and named 551 different authors. Here [...]
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at Measure of Doubt, Reading Lists for Every Hogwarts House at The Guardian, 10 Books About Outsiders for Teenagers at LibraryThing, All the Books in Marilyn Monroe’s Private Library at The Awl, 5 Reasons to Watch “The Lizzie Bennet Diaries” at Open Culture, 10 Free Stories by George Saunders at The Washington Post, 10 Years of the Iraq War: [...]
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As for the slowing of the growth in ebooks, I would note that according to the latest numbers the yearly gain in ebook share is “only” 20.7 percent, while the overall market for publishers’ books is down. Adult hardcovers are down 21.5 percent. What direction are books headed in, then, print or digital? Dropping k-nowledge. ____________________________ Gilbert and [...]
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Rioters Jenn and Preeti are revisiting the Wheel of Time series. Follow their What the WoT adventures here. Warning: Absolutely riddled with spoilers! PC: I like that I thought this project was going to take at least through April. JN: Yeah, we may have miscalculated slightly. PC: This book should be called “Mat is Awesome and Everyone [...]
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The book trailer for Ruth Ozeki’s newest novel, A Tale for the Time Being, is a little longer than most. It isn’t as flashy as others. It sticks to a pretty simple formula. It introduces the reader to two of the main characters, suggests the plot, and makes the viewer want to know what is coming [...]
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