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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

Blurbs: What Are They Good For?

If you need a few lines of effusive praise for your soon-to-be-released novel, don’t go ringing Margaret Atwood’s doorbell (in ...

Mine’s the One That Says “Bad DNF’er” On It

I used to be such a good little reader. I always finished my books, even ones that were only so-so, ...

/r/Down the Rabbit Hole: A Bookish Introduction to Reddit

Even for those of us who consider ourselves technologically savvy, internet-literate, and “with it” in a way belied by our ...

What Do Readers Want from Literary Adaptations?

To celebrate Book Riot’s second birthday on Monday, we’re running some of our favorite posts from our first two years. ...

Book to the Future: 10 Authors We’ll Still Read and Revere in 100 Years

The book world is full of discussions about the so-called literary canon. Fair enough. It’s understandably easy to get sucked ...

Only Oblivion to Look Forward To: Finishing David Foster Wallace

My fingers tap the spines of my books, working from the top left corner of my TBR shelf to the ...

What I Said When They Came for THE HANDMAID’S TALE

This post is part of our Margaret Atwood Riot Reading Day, a celebration of one of our favorite authors on the occasion of ...

The New 52 and the Post-Bat Affleck Freakout

I am not a comic book nerd. I’ve never read so much as a single dialogue bubble of Thor’s, Iron ...

5 Bookish Merit Badges I’d Be Proud to Pin on My Chest

I was never a scout of any kind, which would be totally fine with me if it weren’t for the ...

A Brief History of (Novelists on the Cover of) TIME

In August of the Year of Our Lord Jonathan Franzen 2010 (That’s got to be how he measures time, right?), TIME Magazine put ol’ ...