David Abrams blogs about the literary life at The Quivering Pen. His novel Fobbit, a dark comedy about the Iraq War, is available from Grove/Atlantic.
While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...
I was a teenage guinea pig. Sometime around 1976, I was used by the Teton County School Board in what ...
As lovers of short fiction already know, we’re nearly through National Short Story Month. Those who were unaware of this calendar ...
Car bombs exploded in Baghdad neighborhoods that summer like synchronized cannons. Bodies incinerated. Engine parts whizzed through the air like ...
To celebrate Book Riot’s first birthday on Monday, we’re running our best 50 posts from our first year this week. ...
When I was in fifth grade, I entered a house, went to the nursery, and was eaten by a lion. ...
It’s true, war is hell. But in the right hands—holding the pen askew at just the right angle—war can also ...
As lovers of short fiction already know, we’re smack-dab in the middle of National Short Story Month. Those who were ...
For the better part of twenty years, I carried Lewis Nordan around with me like a beautiful, restless agony. Though ...
As the RMS Titanic was sinking beneath surface of the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 and survivors were ...