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Rebecca Joines Schinsky

Rebecca Joines Schinsky is the Chief of Staff for Riot New Media Group and a co-host of the Book Riot Podcast.

GENRE KRYPTONITE: Teenage Guy Coming-of-Age Novels*

*with punk music GENRE KRYPTONITE is a regular feature about genres we have an inexplicable weak spot for. Check out previous entries ...

Required reading…for everybody?

Maybe it’s my I-took-a-lot-of-English-classes Stockholm syndrome talking, but I’ve always liked required reading lists. I’ve heard the criticisms leveled against ...

Five More Books to Look For in 2012

In service of my unwritten resolution to start the year without feeling like I’m already behind the eight ball, I ...

Best of Book Riot: 7 Surprise Twists I’d Rather Live Without

This week we’re running some of our favorite and most popular posts from our first three months.  __________________________ A truly ...

Best Books of 2011: The Buffet

I once heard that there are only two real aphrodisiacs: variety and exercise. Variety to, you know, keep it exciting, ...

When You’re the Literary Cheese Standing Alone, Where Do You Stand?

There’s this scene in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (it’s awesome, don’t hate!) when Whoopi Goldberg–as Sister Mary ...

7 Surprise Twists I’d Rather Live Without [or The Airing of Grievances, Literary Style]

A truly surprising surprise twist—the kind that  makes you gasp or clutch your pearls or reexamine everything you thought you ...

On Judging Books By Their Covers…And Other Readerly Biases

Last month, I read a fantastic book that I very nearly passed on because I found its cover completely unappealing. ...

On the Importance of Reading Rituals

I love packing my bags for Thanksgiving. No really. I do. Not because I take some perverse pleasure from a ...

Drop It Like It’s Haute: 5 Authors We Want to See Host the Oscars

Welcome to Drop It Like It’s Haute, a weekly celebration of that unholiest of marriages between pop culture and literature. __________ ...