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Josh Corman

Josh Corman is a writer and English teacher in Central Kentucky and a Contributing Editor at Panels. He also writes for Kentucky Sports Radio’s pop culture blog, Funkhouser. If he’s not reading, he’s hanging out with his wife and two young children or cheering on his beloved Kentucky Wildcats.   Twitter: @JoshACorman

A Bookish Breakdown of the 2015 Oscars

Before the Academy of Motion Pictures releases its Oscar nominations every year, I tell myself that the voters are a ...

What Are the Odds: Bookish Predictions for 2015

2015 is here, and, from a bookish perspective, there’s plenty to looks forward to. We get a new Nick Hornby ...

Literary Tourism: Real Landmarks Made Famous By Fiction

These locations are featured prominently in fiction and give readers the chance to plant their feet on the sites of literary landmarks.

How to Become a Terrible Library Patron in 5 Easy Steps

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

How Our Book Lives Changed in 2014

We bookish folks spend an awful lot of time at the end of each year writing and talking about the ...

One Man’s Diary of a Month-Long Library Closure

I should have seen it coming. I should have understood what it was going to mean. The signs were everywhere. ...

In Defense of Comic Book Movies

All right, I admit that the title is a little ridiculous. I mean, from what or whom am I supposed ...

On Being (Sp)Read Too Thin: The Paradox of Reading Choice

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.” So says Bilbo Baggins in The Fellowship of ...

33 Bookish Trivia Games

Do you get things done? Are you productive? Can you easily avoid the internet’s tempting and constant invitation to goof ...

Publishing’s Diversity Problem: The Response Scale

Have you ever wondered where responses to an evident lack of diversity in publishing fall on the spectrum between ‘sensible’ ...