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Morgan Macgregor

Morgan Macgregor is a reader living in Los Angeles. She reviews fiction and is working on her first novel.

THE BOOK RIOT 50: #23 How to Be Embarrassed: Brief Encounters with Jonathan Franzen

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

LOLing at Books

Humor is such a slippery concept. What’s funny? And I don’t just mean what makes something funny, but what is ...

The Magic of the Sentence

In the March 18th edition of the NY Times, there’s a piece by Jhumpa Lahiri called “My Life’s Sentences.” It’s ...

2012 Tournament of Books Commentary: Episode 3

JO: Well, we were going to try to wait until after the first round was complete before another episode of ...

Death, Debauchery, and Discord in….Palm Springs?

I went to Palm Springs last weekend. Living in Los Angeles, this is something that I can just do, which ...

2012 Tournament of Books Running Diary: Pre-Game

Jeff O’Neal and Morgan Macgregor are both huge Tournament of Books fans. So, they decided to read all the finalists ...

12 Movies That Should Be Books

Around Oscar season, there’s always a lot of talk about book-to-film adaptations. But personally, I’m more interested in seeing it ...

The Kid Lit Creep Factor

So I was reading the bookselling news in Publishers Weekly and learned that the Curious George Bookstore, in Cambridge, Mass, ...