#Opinion

Why Bob Dylan Will Win the Nobel Prize

Over the last twenty-four hours or so, the odds of Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize tomorrow have moved from ...

The Cursed Dearth of Literary Sports Novels

A few weeks ago, Chad Harbach’s debut novel The Art of Fielding was excerpted in Sports Illustrated. I couldn’t tell ...

Spooky Reads: Poor Dracula…..

I feel so sorry for Dracula. Not the character. He’s a magical psychopath. He’s fine. I feel sorry for the ...

Why I Read Young Adult Literature

As a bonafide grown up (membership card pending successful completion of one week without letting clothes pile up on the ...

DNFing Makes Me Feel Dirty

Thomas Wolfe kicked my ass. Look Homeward, Angel is 15 percent beautiful, partially nonsensical prose, 10 percent plot, and 75 percent WHAT ...

Genre Kryptonite: Intrepid Girl Reporters

Everyone has their Genre Kryptonite. Nerd Boys who anxiously await a sci-fi apocalypse so all their video-gaming and LARP-ing can ...

Welcome to Book Riot

Though e-books, bookstore closings, and self-publishing are dominating book news these days, there is actually something more fundamental changing about ...

Betting the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature

Ladbroke’s, one of those English gambling houses that seem to have a prop for everything, has an extensive board for ...

This Is Gonna Be Big, I Can Tell: The Review Haiku

I’m going to step out on a limb here and assume you’ve had the experience of reading a dull book ...

President Obama, Read Whatever You Want

Salon.com recently published an op/ed written by a short-story author named Robin Black, titled “President Obama: Why don’t you read ...