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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

The Privilege and Pressure of Being a Book Claus

I love the holidays hard. Still, Thanksgiving-thru-Christmas stresses me out THE MOST, for all the normal reasons holidays stress people ...

Test Driving NPR’s Book Concierge App

I’m a huge fan of NPR’s annual end of the year book lists. I depend on them to help me ...

Divergent Trailer Rundown

WHY CAN’T IT BE MARCH ALREADY! I mean, I’m excited for Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years/Chinese New Year/Valentine’s Day/et al. But I am ...

An Interview With Markus Zusak

In honor of the film adaptation of Markus Zusak’s much beloved novel The Book Thief (it’s sold 8 million copies ...

Romeo + Juliet + Rewriting Shakespeare

In the most recent film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, IMDb lists writers as Julian Fellowes (of Downton Abbey fame) ...

How to Have an Unpopular Opinion About a Book On the Internet

Last week I wrote a piece for Book Riot entitled I Couldn’t Finish GONE WITH THE WIND Because It Was ...

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Superfan Scorned

Warning: It’s impossible to write this piece without discussing spoilers for Veronica Roth’s Allegiant, the conclusion to her dystopian Divergent ...

What Will 50 SHADES Do If It Can’t Find Its Leading Man?

As most of us have heard by now, Charlie Hunnam, known for his role on Sons of Anarchy, who was originally ...

I Couldn’t Finish GONE WITH THE WIND Because it Was So Racist

I’ve been on a childhood favorites kick (recently talked about rereading Little House on the Prairie for Book Riot) and ...

Why It’s Okay to Have an Adult Crush on a YA Character

It started with a Twitter conversation between two Rioters. Specifically a Twitter conversation regarding the hotness of one Park Sheridan, ...