Erika Harlitz-Kern

Erika Harlitz-Kern holds a doctorate from a Swedish university and can't get enough of history, books, and music. Her earliest memories involve a comic book and a Dutch troubadour. She has travelled South Asia on a shoestring, although nowadays she spends most of her vacations in the Mississippi Delta. Lives with her husband in South Florida, because sooner or later they would've ended up there anyway. Blog: The Boomerang Twitter: EH_Kern

Nobel Prize Trivia Time!

‘Tis the season to be jolly. This year’s recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature has been announced. Congratulations Patrick ...

George Clooney, Harold and Kumar, and The Odyssey

O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, two movies that seemingly have very little ...

Four Books That Changed How I View the World

Whenever I open a book to read, I do it with a wish that when I reach the end, its ...

Reading Old Cookbooks (For History, Not Recipes)

Do you enjoy reading historical nonfiction? Have you ever thought of reading an old cookbook to satisfy your cravings? Now ...

Happy Birthday, Tove Jansson, Author of the Moomin Books

Today, August 9, 2014, marks the one hundredth birthday of Tove Jansson (1914–2001), known to the world as the author ...

How To Choose a Book As Your Traveling Companion

Here on Book Riot, James Crossley wrote a post about books as literary traveling companions and it made me think. ...

My Favorite Animal, the Book Scorpion

My favorite animal is the book scorpion. I saw one recently in a room where my parents keep old family ...

Is GONE GIRL a Misogynist Novel?

Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel Gone Girl is a well-written crime story full of twists and turns that repeatedly catch the ...