Kit Steinkellner

Kit Steinkellner is a playwright, screenwriter, and creative writing teacher. She also writes about books and reading  at Books Are My Boyfriends. Follow her onTwitter: @BooksAreMyBFs

Five Ways to Jump-Start Your Book Club

Like many liberal-arts educated and Pinterest-obsessed middle-ish class twenty-something American women, I am part of a book club. Well, kind ...

“They Reviewed”: Decoding Book Reviews “He Texted”-Style

Book Riot colleague Rebecca Schinsky forwarded me the link to this HORRIFYING new website HeTexted in which girls send in ambiguous ...

Genre Kryptonite: Tortured Artists and the People Who Love Them

I tend to hardcore eye-roll when a novel is about a novelist and a screenplay features a screenwriter as a ...

The Scarlett O’Hara School of Self-Deception

  On an episode of popular science public radio show Radio Lab entitled “Deception,” the last segment of the show ...

Public Domain Books Coming Soon to a TV Near You

Last television season was an experiment. In the fall of 2011, ABC slotted their hour-long fantasy soap Once Upon a ...

Thoughts on “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” Film Adaptation

THOUGHTS ON THE CASTING: Logan Lerman, who plays the eponymous wallflower Charlie is A VERY GOOD ACTOR. Thoughtful, observant, sensitive- ...

“Elementary” Recap: Season 1, Episode 1 (with special guest The Ghost of Arthur Conan Doyle)

Kit Steinkellner– About two months ago I wrote a Book Riot post anticipating CBS’ Sherlock Holmes adaptation Elementary. The show ...

THE BOOK RIOT 50: #20 THE GREAT GATSBY Trailer Rundown

To celebrate Book Riot’s  first birthday on Monday, we’re running our best 50 posts from our first year this week. ...

THE BOOK RIOT 50: #29 You Are Not Fat, Bridget Jones (An Open Letter)

To celebrate Book Riot’s  first birthday on Monday, we’re running our best 50 posts from our first year this week. ...

The 5 Best Literary TED Talks

If you go on the TED Talks official website, things get overwhelming pretty quickly. There are 1,338 videos total listed ...

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