Riot Headline The Best Books of 2024

Sarah McCarry

Sarah McCarry is the author of the novels All Our Pretty Songs and Dirty Wings and the editor and publisher of the chapbook series Guillotine.

I Love Discontents: A Starter Course in Experimental Feminist Literature

With the recent-ish news that Amazon has ordered a half-hour comedy pilot for Chris Kraus’s seminal (SORRY, COULDN’T HELP MYSELF) ...

Mystics and Saints: Patti Smith and Isabelle Eberhardt

I’ve seen Patti Smith only once in my life, not onstage but in the checkout line of the Whole Foods ...

Door Stoppers: Big Books By Women

While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our ...

Door Stoppers: Big Books By Women

As an obsessive book lover whose reading speed approaches the freakish, there are few things on this earth that fill ...

Nerds in Space: My Favorite Books About Life, the Universe, and Everything

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

Reading For Hope in Unjust Times

This post has been overdue since a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri voted not to indict police officer Darren Wilson ...

You Never Kill Off Enough Teenagers: A Conversation With R.L. Stine

You probably know R.L. Stine as the wildly influential tween scare factory and creator of countless delicious teen gorefests—central to ...

My Nonfiction Commute Project; Or, How I Will Become The Most Well-Read MTA Commuter of All Time

I recently started a new part-time job that involves a three-hour daily subway commute (it’s okay! That’s how we do ...

Nerds in Space: My Favorite Books About Life, the Universe, and Everything

The main character of my third book, About A Girl,  is an eighteen-year-old genius who’s an aspiring astronomer, and since ...

Book People Problems: Vacation Reading

I am presently (to my great delight) on vacation, and the Problem of Vacation Reading is on my mind, largely ...