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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.

How To Get Over Your Mid-Winter Reading Slump

It happens to the best of us: that thing where the mere thought of picking up a book makes you ...

Top 5 Miscast Literary Roles

Have you seen David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo yet?  (If not, and if you haven’t read the ...

Why Print Is Here To Stay (A Not Anti-eBook Op/Ed)

Pop quiz: What percentage of the total book sales market do you think e-books currently comprise? Is it half e-books? ...

12 Literary Predictions for 2012

Here’s how I see this literary year going down. Tell me if you disagree. January — The first literary mystery ...

Suck It, Tolstoy: I Read War and Peace

When I was a bit younger, I used to amuse my friends (and, more so, myself) by keeping day-long running ...

Best of Book Riot: Which Was More Gnarly, Orwell’s 1984 or the Real 1984?

This week we’re running some our favorite and most popular posts from our first three months.  __________________________ George Orwell’s 1984, first ...

Best of Book Riot: Reading Pathways: David Foster Wallace

 This week we’re running some of our favorite and most popular posts from our first three months.  __________________________ Reading Pathways is ...

Reading Pathways: Richard Russo

Reading Pathways is a regular Book Riot feature in which we suggest a three-book reading sequence for becoming acquainted with certain ...

The Literary Quotes Post

If you’re a person who uses a quote as your email signature, whose quotes section of your Facebook page is ...

Top 5 Most Overlooked Books of 2011

On Sunday, Flavorwire posted its list of the top 1o “most criminally overlooked books” of 2011. Since I haven’t read ...