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Sarah Rettger

Sarah spends her nights selling books (in all formats) at an independent bookstore outside Boston, and her days working on a graduate degree in between Twitter breaks. Follow her on Twitter @SarahRettger.

Unlikely Book-to-Movie Deals That Should Exist

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

Literary Tourism: Boston and Cambridge

Here in Boston we are all about our history. Show up as a tourist, and you will have no trouble ...

Unlikely Book-to-Movie Deals That Should Exist

Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In is now on its way to becoming a movie. It’s not going to be a Sheryl ...

What to Read: World War I

It’s been a century since World War I began in 1914, which means it’s time for another torrent of books ...

Not All People Who Read Books Are Book People

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

Sports Books for the Rest of Us

It turns out (thanks, Wikipedia!) that the last week in October is the only time all four major US sports ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in October

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...

Why Do You Buy What You Buy?

Ta-Nehisi Coates (if you’re not already a fan of his work, head on over to The Atlantic) runs an occasional ...

If you want to talk like a pirate, try reading like one

Today’s the day when we all try to sound like Geoffrey Rush, hoist the Jolly Roger over college dorms, and ...

How to Completely Miss the Point

Thanks to the National Academy of Scholars, we no longer have to wonder why there’s been a recent run on ...