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Edd McCracken

Edd McCracken lives in Scotland, dislikes book spine breakers and loves when small words harmonise to make big ideas. Follow him on Twitter:  @EddMcCracken

Literary Tourism: Berlin

Berlin is the ground zero of 20th century history. One cold and two searing world wars revolved around Germany’s capital ...

Stories of the Impossible – An interview with Patrick Ness

According to Patrick Ness, the extraordinary happens every day. Not only is it a handy subheading for his new book, ...

In Conversation with Neil Gaiman

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

Confessions of a Booker Prize Judge

It is possible that the life of every Man Booker Prize judge ends in this way: sitting quietly in a ...

The Book Riot Podcast, Interlude #1: Neil Gaiman

  The Book Riot Podcast, Interlude #1: Neil Gaiman We interrupt our normal podcast format to bring you a special ...

“Without the imaginary, we can’t function” – In conversation with Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman has a cold. Not a full blown, honking phlegmy kind of cold, just the mild, almost genial sort ...

Catch The Heart Off Guard And Blow It Open – Why Seamus Heaney Mattered

Last Father’s Day I gave my dad a copy of Seamus Heaney’s poem Digging. It is one of Heaney’s earliest ...

What Carries the Darkness? – Margaret Atwood on Monsters and TWILIGHT

This post is part of our Margaret Atwood Riot Reading Day, a celebration of one of our favorite authors on the occasion of ...

Who is the Real Digital Villain: Amazon or Publishers?

In a tent in Edinburgh’s Charlotte Square a gentleman is being flogged. His crime? He is a publisher. His assailants? ...

Fear of Flash Gordon and Sibling Rivalry: Why Authors Use Pen Names

So, like the end of a Scooby Doo cartoon, debut detective novelist Robert Galbraith has been unmasked as none other ...