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Greg Zimmerman

Greg Zimmerman blogs about contemporary literary fiction at The New Dork Review of Books and holds down a full-time gig as a trade magazine editor. Follow him on Twitter: @NewDorkReview.

The Book Riot 50: #44 A Brief History of Booze and Books

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

Handicapping the Nobel Prize in Lit: Philip Roth vs. E.L. James?

Let it not be said that the folks at Ladbrokes don’t have a sense of humor. There, at the end ...

Literary Pet Peeves Are Counterproductive

My literary pet peeve is readers who have pet peeves. That’s a statement that surely won’t make me popular, but ...

Best Books Of 2012 So Far (According To Me)

Labor Day weekend is something of a turning point in the long haul of the year. We’ve traversed two-thirds of ...

Top 12 Fall Movies Based on Books

Even with the sad (or happy, depending on your Tobey Maguire-ness) news that The Great Gatsby movie’s been delayed until ...

Nothing Is More Real Than Fiction

There’s a passage about halfway through Don DeLillo’s novel Underworld that is so profound, so unerringly elegant, that I very ...

For Shame? Two Rioters Read the FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Parody

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then parody is the sincerest form of mockery. That’s especially true when ...

Covering the Bases: Two Rioters Debate THE ART OF FIELDING

If you’re like me, your first reaction when someone doesn’t love a novel you loved is to get defensive. But ...

What Makes a Beautiful Sentence?

Earlier this week, Publisher’s Weekly posted a short list of five “perfect” sentences on its blog. The post says, “To get ...

Are Authors Really Behaving Badly?

The literary interwebs seems to have lit up in recent weeks with posts about jerk-ass authors. Earlier this week, a ...