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

Everything I’m Hoping is in the New Mindy Kaling Memoir

Last month Amy Poehler announced she would be writing a memoir (which prompted a thousand angels to get their wings) ...

How to Read a Book With a Flashlight

The power was out in my house the other night. I wish I could say the cause of the outage ...

Is THE DINNER Really the New GONE GIRL?

Well, if the blurbs are to be believed. The Wall Street Journal dubbed Dutch novelist Herman Koch’s new novel “The ...

Grading Karen Russell’s VAMPIRES IN THE LEMON GROVE, Story by Story

Everyone loves Swamplandia! author Karen Russell’s new collection of short stories. It’s basically got the “Universal Stamp of Amazing Awesome ...

Right Now I’m Allergic to TV And All I Want to Do is Read Books

It started with House of Cards. I’m not saying my very recent and newfound aversion to all things televised is ...

Write a Love Letter Like A Writer: Franz Kafka to Felice Bauer

The one thing you can say about the love letters Franz Kafka wrote his to his on-again, off-again fiancée Felice ...

Bookstore Time Machine: Anatole Broyard’s Used Bookstore, Greenwich Village, 1946

While turning the pages of a few recent nonfiction reads, I’ve come across some stopped-me-in-my-reading-tracks descriptions re: bookstores of the ...

Getting on a Soapbox About Inventive Spelling

A few weeks ago I wrote a piece for Book Riot, Teaching Kids to Spell Makes You Realize How Lucky You ...

Write a Love Letter Like a Writer: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald

We’re back with another Write a Love Letter Like a Writer! Yes, Valentine’s Day has come and gone. However love ...

I Don’t Know Whether or Not I’m Excited for the New Bridget Jones Book

Bridget Jones is baaaaaack. It was recently announced that Knopf will publish Helen Fielding’s third installment of Ms. Jones’ misadventures ...

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