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Why I’m Thankful for Toni Morrison’s THE BLUEST EYE

This is a guest post from Morgan Jerkins. Morgan graduated from Princeton University with an AB in Comparative Literature and is ...

One Man’s Epic Quest To Find First Editions on a Budget

This is a guest post from Chris M. Arnone. Chris is an avid consumer of great fiction in any form ...

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

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

Dream Casting for TAMPA, THE FEVER, and Other Hypothetical Adaptations

While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...

On Reading An Author’s Work In (and Out) of Order

This is a guest post from Heather Seggel. Heather is a former bookseller and library technician who currently reviews books. ...

The Author of HOW TO BE A VICTORIAN on Hygiene Products, Tea, and Washing Up

This is a guest post from Ruth Goodman. Ruth is a historian of British social and domestic life, and the author ...

Scraped Knees and Boyish Hair: The Tomboy in Literature

This is a guest post from Megan Mayhew-Bergman. Megan lives on a small farm in Vermont, where she is a ...

Genre Kryptonite: Genre Mash-Ups

This is a guest post from Adam Sternbergh. Adam is the author of Shovel Ready and its sequel, Near Enemy. He’s also ...

Nursery Rhymes for Laughing at Death

This is a guest post from Evangeline Lilly. Evangeline is a writer and actress, most well-known for her roles in ...

Bring Out Your Dead: 7 Nonfiction Books About the Science of Dead Bodies

This is a guest post from Darin Cook. Darin is a writer and avid reader of nearly all genres of nonfiction, ...