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Riot Recommendation: A Round-Up of Books about Saints

This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Unbridled Books and Afterlives of the Saints by Colin Dickey. In Afterlives of the Saints, ...

20 Favorite Quotes About Writing

Earlier this week, we asked you to submit your favorite quotes about writing and the writer’s life to enter to ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: June 19, 2012

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

The Best of BookRiot.tv: June 11th – 15th, 2012

The most popular trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch:

Tools of the Trade: Rodale’s Synonym Finder

One of my favorite writers, Canadian poet Anne Carson, author of Autobiography of Red, has an awesome word horde. Her ...

Is Tamar Adler’s AN EVERLASTING MEAL A Cookbook?

I pick up most cookbooks with the intention of cooking something within them, something from one of the pretty pictures ...

The Best Covers of Book Expo America 2012

Half the fun of walking the floor at BEA is just looking at thousands of books. I’ve rounded up the ...

I Bet That You Look Good on the Show Floor

Last week, this little country mouse left cozy New Hampshire behind and attended Book Expo America in NYC – holy ...

The Book Riot BEA Buzz

The Editors’ Buzz panel, in which six editors each present their most highly anticipated title for fall, is Book Expo ...

Book Expo America, Day 2 Highlights: Sex Book Edition

The list of books I heard about today that tickled my fancy takes up, I kid you not, 10 pages ...