Aram Mrjoian
Aram Mrjoian is a contributor at Book Riot and the Chicago Review of Books. His reviews and essays have also appeared in Necessary Fiction, The Adroit Journal blog, and The Awesome Mitten. His stories are published or forthcoming in Tahoma Literary Review, Limestone, The Great Lakes Book Project, and others. He is currently working toward his MFA in creative writing at Northwestern University, where he is a fiction editor at TriQuarterly.
Twitter: @AMrjoian575
Literary Tourism: Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
Aram Mrjoian
April 27, 2014
Last month in literary tourism you got a taste of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, a powerhouse peninsula of bookstores, writers, and ...
Film Screenplays Written By Famous Authors
Aram Mrjoian
April 24, 2014
Here at Book Riot we’ve talked a lot about what books inspire directors to create film adaptations. After all, every ...
5 Brilliant Bookstore-Bars
Aram Mrjoian
March 31, 2014
One of my favorite quotes by James Joyce is, “The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue.” For me at ...
The Night I Slept Outside Shakespeare & Company
Aram Mrjoian
March 26, 2014
I woke up on a plane that I did not remember boarding, about half an hour away from landing in ...
Movie-To-Book Recommendation Engine: What to Read If You Love the Coen Brothers
Aram Mrjoian
March 25, 2014
The first thing to know about Joel and Ethan Coen is that they are brilliantly bookish and intelligent. This erudite ...
Vladimir Nabokov vs. Kanye West
Aram Mrjoian
March 6, 2014
A quick definition from The big M-W: Synesthesia: a concomitant sensation; especially: a subjective sensation or image of a sense ...