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If Books Were Bands

If Radiohead, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, David Bazan, and The Smiths were books, which books would they be?

Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Books and Authors You Had to Read in High School

This is a guest post by our current Rioter in Residence, Kevin Smokler. Kevin is the author of forthcoming essay collection ...

Top 10 Best Books Serial Book-Abandoners May Have Missed

“If a book doesn’t grab me in the first 50 (100? 150?) pages, I quit. I don’t have the time ...

Genre Kryptonite: Books You’ve Never Heard of By Authors You Have

This is a guest post from Nicole Perrin. Nicole is an editor, reader, tea drinker, and lit blogger (not necessarily in ...

Reading Pathways: John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath being as commonplace as they are in the respective book-bags of ...

If You Like (Insert Something), Try (This Other Thing): TRUE GRIT Edition

True Grit by Charles Portis is a classic of the western genre, full of guns and horses and cowboys and spurs ...