Jessi Lewis

Jessi Lewis has her MFA in fiction and an MA in Writing and Rhetoric. She was one of the founding editors of Cheat River Review and now works to bring her own fiction, poetry and essays to eyes each month.     Twitter: @jessiwrit

Your Brain on Books: Sweet Sweet Studies

The Pew Research Center stated in October that 72% of Americans read a book in the last year. Yes, this ...

Inspiring Buys for Writers

It’s hard sometimes to catch up to the great wave of writers out there– they move through notebooks, pens, laptops, ...

When Reality Mirrors Fiction

Let’s look back to December: This holiday season was odd for many people in the U.S. On the East Coast, the ...

The Perks of Reading a Wallflower at 28

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

When Poetry Wakes Me Up

I came across a little poem by A.E. Stallings online through the Virginia Quarterly Review. You can find it here. I ...

6 Ways Books Can Help You Through The Darkest Winter

Every year, I can feel the oncoming dead of winter. It’s near. Those of us entering a darker season will need ...

Four Chef-ish Books on Cooking Lives and Kitchens

When I tried out Prune restaurant in NYC a few months ago, I was so excited by the interior of that ...

The Perks of Reading a Wallflower at 28

I was supposed to read Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky when I was in high school. Somehow, through ...

Literary Tourism: Traveling Through West Virginia

Yes, when most people think about books based in West Virginia, usually Homer Hickam’s Rocket Boys comes to mind. Note ...

Wishing For a Book Palace

I am not a city lover. I’m only a city tourist. I grew up in great tracts of space, rarely ...

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