Jeff O'Neal

Jeff O'Neal is the executive editor of Book Riot and Panels. He also co-hosts The Book Riot Podcast. Follow him on Twitter: @thejeffoneal.

Stop….Grammar Time!: Comma Comma Comma Chameleon

The comma is the most misused punctuation mark in the English language. My source you ask? The school of correcting ...

Review GPA: HOPE: A TRAGEDY by Shalom Auslander

Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander Publication Date: January 12, 2012 Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Riverhead Books Publisher’s Synopsis: The rural ...

Book Riot 2.0

As you can see, Book Riot looks a little different this morning. We created Book Riot because we wanted to ...

Sunday Diversion: Character Study…with Answers

Time to reveal the answers to this Sunday’s Diversion: Character Study. The below descriptions are of major literary characters (highlight ...

What I Hate About Being a Reader

Most serious readers love that they are serious readers, and the compensations of a robust reading life are much discussed. ...

Sunday Diversion: Character Study

One of literature’s weaknesses is visualization: we can readily remember who the characters are, what they do, and what they ...

Featured Book Trailer: BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH by Alastair Reynolds

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Stop….Grammar Time.

As a bright, eager, and woefully ungrammatical undergraduate, I had the good fortune of having a professor kind and honest ...

Friday Forum: How Did You Hear About Your Current Read?

Some research unveiled at Digital Book World this week offered some rare insight into the habits and values of “avid ...

Review GPA: THE ORPHAN MASTER’S SON by Adam Johnson

In Review GPA, we translate reviews of notable new books into letter grades and determine a grade point average.    The ...