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The Best of BookRiot.tv: The Most Watched Trailers – January 19-25, 2013

Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch!    

Nonfiction Books That Should Be Reshelved as Fiction

Turns out that the library sign in Manly, Australia, directing readers to the fiction section to find any Lance Armstrong ...

Genre Kryptonite: Graphic Memoirs

I love to read memoirs, but the one subgenre, if you will, that I tend to avoid is the dysfunctional ...

Sites We Like: Talking Covers

I know very little about book cover design, though like most book nerds, I love book covers. So Talking Covers ...

Write Place, Write Time: Wiley Cash

This is my office in our home in Morgantown, West Virginia, and this is the desk and chair I’m using ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: January 22, 2013

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. [galleryview ...

The Well-Readheads’ 2013 Forecast

LH: It’s 2013! A fresh start to another year of reading books. And this is really-really the year I read ...

Fresh Ink: New Books Out Today: January 22, 2012

A little of everything this week–fiction, lit crit, memoir, and nonfiction/journalism. What’s your pleasure? The Antagonist by Lynn Coady (Knopf) ...

The Best of BookRiot.tv: The Most Watched Trailers – January 12-18, 2013

Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch!    

THEY REVIEWED… Ayana Mathis and Jared Diamond

Isabelle Wilkerson reviews The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis for the NY Times. The stories make up a ...