Rachel Cordasco

Rachel Cordasco has a Ph.D in literary studies and currently works as a developmental editor. When she's not at her day job or chasing three kids, she's writing reviews and translating Italian speculative fiction. She runs the website sfintranslation.com, and can be found on Facebook and Twitter.

9 Portraits of Famous Writers

There’s just something about the mingling of artistic media that always puts a smile on my face. I’m thinking, for ...

Authors Writing Libretti

If it’s mid-winter, then we must be in the thick of opera season- am I right?  Now, I hear some of ...

The First Book I Ever Bought Online

*** Cue lights and newsreel *** This is a story about an age long since passed: the ’90s. It was ...

The Lives of Literary Ladies

This post started out as something else. I first put fingers to keyboard to tell you about some of the ...

She Shall Remain Nameless: On Unnamed Female Narrators

I recently read two very different novels that had one fascinating thing in common: both were narrated by unnamed women. ...

30 One-Sentence Lessons from Literature

While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...

Of Biographies and Bob Dylan

“biography”: the story of a real person’s life written by someone other than that person I’ve been thinking a lot ...

A Totally Practical Game-Plan for Reading All the Books

I have this problem. It’s that I’m already in my 30s and I have not yet begun to scratch the ...

Dear Jane Austen

Winchester Cathedral Hampshire, England December 16, 2013   Dear Jane Austen, Let me first wish you a very happy 238th ...

8 Out-of-This-World Cover Illustrations from SF Magazines

Many consider 1938-1946 to be the “golden age” of science fiction, and who can blame them: John W. Campbell took ...