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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

Best of Book Riot: Why Books Provide Ballast

To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll ...

Best of Book Riot: A Bookish Wedding Retold

To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll ...

Beyond the Headlines – The Best Untold Book Stories of 2012

Millions of years after the world ends in late December 2012, alien archaeologists picking through the debris of humanity might ...

Vote Books! 13 Literary Quotes to Take to the Polls

Dear America, Has it really been four years? Has it been that long since you were here, hands wavering over ...

In Praise of Hilary Mantel

And just like that, Hilary Mantel became a national treasure. To win one Man Booker Prize is fortunate, to win ...

A Director’s Cut of HARRY POTTER? No, Thanks.

In an interview with the BBC last week JK Rowling revealed she toys with the idea of doing a director’s ...

THE BOOK RIOT 50: #1 Sixteen Things Calvin and Hobbes Said Better Than Anyone Else

To celebrate Book Riot’s  first birthday on Monday, we’re running our best 50 posts from our first year this week. ...

THE BOOK RIOT 50: #13 The Secret Lives of Bookmarks

To celebrate Book Riot’s  first birthday on Monday, we’re running our best 50 posts from our first year this week. ...

The Book Riot 50: #50 Welcome to the Library of Fictional Fiction

To celebrate Book Riot’s  first birthday on Monday, we’re running our best 50 posts from our first year this week. ...

We Are All Roald Dahl’s Children

Today is Roald Dahl’s birthday. That garden shed-dwelling genius of children’s literature would be a ripe old 96 were he ...