#Classics

New Takes on Old Stories

This Riot Recommendation is sponsored by The Well of Tears by Robert Trahan. More than five centuries after Camelot, a new king ...

Public Domain Books Coming Soon to a TV Near You

Last television season was an experiment. In the fall of 2011, ABC slotted their hour-long fantasy soap Once Upon a ...

7 Awesome Original Banned Books Trading Cards

Nothing brings the literary community together like a week of celebrating our freedom to read, and few organizations know that better ...

Genre Kryptonite: Books About Charles Dickens

It’s a very odd thing, my weakness for books about Charles Dickens, although it might not seem odd straight away. ...

EXCLUSIVE: Erica Jong on Writing and Collecting Banned Books

What a perfect way to wrap up Banned Books Week! A big thanks to the awesome team at Open Road Media ...

Adventures in Public Reading: Classics on the Train

My commute is a short one. Door to door from my house to my office is 20 minutes by Metro ...

Go Around the Watery Part of the World in 135 Days: The MOBY-DICK Big Read

This, well, this is just really freakin’ cool. Being read to is one of the great pleasures of a reading ...

3 Books I’m Ashamed to Have Abandoned

This is a guest post by Johann Thorsson. Johann is a writer of fiction with a supernatural slant, mainly short stories ...

Rumpelstiltskin

I’ve withheld reading Grimms fairytales to my children thinking they were too scary. My son is scared of mummies and ...

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

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