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They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: April 24, 2012

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting popular titles that are freshly out in paperback. * ...

Genre Kryptonite: Drug Addiction Memoirs (a.k.a. Books to Get Hooked On)

This installment of Genre Kryptonite is a guest post by Rita Meade. Rita is a librarian who lives and works in ...

Riot Recommendation: Nonfiction with a Side of Self-Help?

I recently fell ass-over-teakettle in love with Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit, which combines social history with a research-based ...

The Well-Readheads: Me-Me-Me Memoirs

RJS: Okay, sugar britches, we’re talking about memoirs this week. My relationship status with memoirs is “it’s complicated.” When they ...

Book List: Community, Technology and Loneliness

Why are so many Americans living by themselves? That was the big question in an article/book in the New Yorker I ...

Review GPA: WILD by Cheryl Strayed

Wild by Cheryl Strayed Publication Date: March 20, 2012 Genre: Memoir Publisher: Knopf Publisher’s Synopsis: A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the ...

What’s On Your Nightstand?

Thank you all for your enthusiastic participation in our first installment of this new regular feature. As all of us ...

Why The Elements of Style Breaks Its Own Rules…and Why You Should Too

The Elements of Style, a slim writing handbook by E.B. White and his writing teacher William Strunk, is the Art ...

Cover Image for Salman Rushdie’s Memoir, JOSEPH ANTON

On Twitter yesterday, Salman Rushdie showed off the US cover for his memoir, Joseph Anton, which will be released  September ...

Nonfiction for the Life and Times of MAD MEN

Sometime today, my fellow Book Riot contributors will be posting their book recommendations for the characters of Mad Men. Although ...