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

An Audiobook Conversion (or: My Wife on the Road to Damascus)

There we were, my wife and I, packing up for the return leg of a road trip after a long ...

How to Become a Terrible Library Patron in 5 Easy Steps

The road to Hell, they say, is paved with readerly ambitions. Ok, so maybe that’s not what they say, but tell ...

Harry Potter and the Chances J.K. Rowling Writes Another Wizarding Novel

If you’re half as Harry Potter-mad as I am, then you probably sprained something trying to get to Pottermore when ...

The Big Bookish Netflix Round-Up

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

A Self-Published Bright Spot at BEA

I was trekking out of Manhattan after a day of hardcore BEA-ing, transferring trains to head back to Brooklyn, when ...

Confessions of a Once-Tyrannical English Teacher

I was a tyrant, and lo! my classroom was my kingdom. The past tense is such a relief. For me ...

I Need Diverse Books: BookCon, Donald Sterling, and AMERICANAH

I hope you’ll forgive the cliché, but in the past week, my worlds have collided. Noisily. First, there was BEA’s ...

Fight for Libraries, Prevent Book Deserts

I probably hadn’t heard the phrase “food desert” until I saw this commercial late last year. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrRELGNuASA[/youtube] I knew that ...

The Big Bookish Netflix Round-Up

Netflix’s instant streaming catalogue is a wonderful thing, made more wonderful by the immense number of bookish TV shows, feature ...

Apocalypse Later: Why Dystopian Novels Speak To Us

  I love dystopias. Totalitarian governments, widespread oppression, the constant threat of death, environmental destruction, corporate hegemony: these are the ...