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Derek Attig

Derek works in graduate student career development and is (believe it or not) one of the world's foremost experts on the history of bookmobiles. Follow Derek on Twitter @bookmobility and on Instagram @bookmobility.

Finding Libraries in Unexpected Places

While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...

Finding Libraries in Unexpected Places

We usually think about libraries as staid and steady buildings, safely immobile on our city streets. Like, say, this rather ...

Fantastic Bookish Staircases

To celebrate Book Riot’s second birthday on Monday, we’re running some of our favorite posts from our first two years. ...

Book Description Phrases That Drive Me Nuts

We all have our own peculiar book-selection procedures. My fellow Rioter Kim goes by the subtitle, where possible. Others are ...

“Libraries Give Us Power Books Make Us Free”

It may come as no surprise that I’m a sucker for well-designed books and book art. Or that I’m quite ...

Book Titles That Would Make Great Band Names

I’m not really a music person. Visual art? Yep. Food? Certainly. Books? Abso-fucking-lutely. But music…I don’t know, but it’s never ...

Literary Time-Traveling Around the Web

I wrote here on Book Riot a couple of months ago about What Middletown Read, a fascinating online database of ...

Turning Classic Novels into Video Games

The opening scene of Austin Grossman’s You finds the protagonist interviewing for a job at a video game company. One ...

4 Books to Help You Celebrate the Fourth

In a very real way, the Fourth of July is a huge, national holiday celebrating a piece of paper and ...

Five Books to Watch For in July

Maybe it’s something about summer, but the books I was drawn to for this feature are about travel: to Shanghai, ...