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Susie Rodarme

Susie Rodarme is obsessed with small press literary fiction and tea. Other notable skills: chainmaille weaving, using Photoshop semi-correctly, and drinking gin.

Why Ghost Stories Are The Absolute Scariest

I’m a horror reader from the way-back. I started reading Stephen King in sixth grade. Goosebumps, Christopher Pike, Anne Rice, ...

5 Small Press Books To Read in September

I’m late with this list because of a combination of long IRL work hours and some sort of devil virus ...

6 Novels Featuring Mental Illness for World Suicide Prevention Day

Okay, guys. First things first: If you’ve clicked on this because you’re feeling suicidal or because you struggle with this, ...

Where To Start With Modernist Poetry

The first lines being written just before the start of World War I, Modernist poetry was a reaction to Romantic ...

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s a Punk History Reading List

Even though it predates my existence by a few years, I’ve always been drawn to punk. (Are you surprised? Maybe, ...

6 Small Press Books to Read in August

This month has novels full of secrets, gritty criminal types, and death. WOO SUMMER, amirite? 1. Sofrito by Phillippe Diederich ...

5 Characters I’d Like To Punch In The Face

(A couple of you may remember I have written on this topic elsewhere, but this is a newly written and ...

12 Signs You’ve Been Binge-Reading

Don’t act like you don’t do it. We all do. 1. You have physical withdrawal symptoms when you finish a ...

4 Small Press Books to Read in July

Yay, small press books! 1. Starvation Mode: A Memoir of Food, Consumption, and Control by Elissa Washuta (from Instant Future) ...

8 Things To Do While You Wait For The Next Book In A Series

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