Derek Attig

Derek works in graduate student career development and is (believe it or not) one of the world's foremost experts on the history of bookmobiles. Follow Derek on Twitter @bookmobility and on Instagram @bookmobility.

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in June

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...

Meet an Artist Who Paints on Books

Have you seen the amazing, somewhat mind-bending work of the artist Ekaterina Panikanova? The Russian-born artist, currently living in Rome, creates ...

Awesome Bookish Chairs

Nothing is quite as nice as a good reading chair, somewhere you can flop down with a book and stay ...

Hidden Histories, Urban Fantasies, and Gaiman’s Influence

This post is part of our Neil Gaiman Reading Day: a celebration of one of our favorite authors on the occasion of the publication ...

Dewey Decimal Jewelry

When he developed his decimal system in the 1870s, Melvil Dewey was trying to bring the efficiency and allure of ...

Awesome Bookish Flooring

Beyond the inevitable—at least for our household—piles of books scattered here and there, it seems like it’d be difficult to ...

Bookish Wallpaper: Awesome or Atrocious?

As I think I’ve made clear in posts about stairs and lamps, I’m a fan of literary takes on interior ...

Penguin Launches Book Truck

Meet the Penguin Book Truck. It’s like a bookmobile that’s been crossed with a food truck and turned into a bookstore. A ...

Literary Pet Names: Feline Edition (The Best of Book Riot)

Much of the good ship Book Riot is off at Book Expo America this week, so we’re running some of ...

3 Books to Read While Watching ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

You may have heard: Arrested Development is coming back. Seven years after being canceled by Fox (when it got lower ratings ...