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Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read In February

Our monthly round-up of the best books we read last month!

Manuscript Discoveries That Would Make Me Die From Joy

Manuscript Discoveries That Would Kill Me

12 Dead Authors You Should Follow On Twitter

In an effort to preserve and/or satirize the words of great authors of yesteryear, many have set up Twitter accounts ...

Riot Reviews Rooster, A New EReading App

Rioters review Rooster, the new ebook app.

10 Best Overlooked Moments of MOBY-DICK

I first read Moby-Dick about ten years ago to show myself I still had the attention span to read things ...

9 Portraits of Famous Writers

There’s just something about the mingling of artistic media that always puts a smile on my face. I’m thinking, for ...

The 10 Best Beards in Literature

Almost exactly two years ago, we ran a post on 10 awesome literary mustaches. It was indeed awesome, and yet something ...

3 Reasons to Finally Read Moby-Dick

I tried to read Moby-Dick when I was a kid. I was ready to try again in high school, but ...

Happy MOBY-DICK Day!

On this day in 1851, Herman Melville’s manic work of genius Moby-Dick was published. It was ripped apart by critics ...

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 ...