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

Classic Literary Muppet Moments

In the newest addition to the Muppet cultural movement, The Muppets on ABC, Ms. Piggy interviewed Reza Aslan, the prolific Iranian-American author ...

Books for Fans Of Renovation Shows

Who doesn’t love building houses, then tearing them apart, then building them again? There’s something soothing about the recycling of a ...

The Sweet, Sweet Idealism of Common Reading for Freshmen

Can a book stave off college freshmen blues? That is the hope. Many college students in their first month of ...

Podcasts We Like: Other Ppl

It’s interesting how many podcasts are cropping up out there, and it’s awesome to see how much they vary. Book ...

On Going Through The Books of Our Dead

My grandmother was Austrian and she read novels in German. She read books in Portuguese too since she had many ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read In July

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, and much, ...

The Finest Book-Inspired Viral Videos

It is a blast gathering the finest viral videos, but let’s be clear about this: There will be some fantastic ...

The Power of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD in Pop Culture

This post is part of our Harper Lee Reading Day: a celebration of one of the most surprising literary events of ...

What Not to Say to Bookstore Employees

While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our ...

Let’s Avoid Defining Beach Reads

There’s always a table. Sometimes it’s a “buy one, get one fifty percent off” table. Sometimes it’s a “buy one, ...