Greg Zimmerman

Social work is a demanding, difficult, often thankless job. These hardworking professionals deserve our utmost respect. Sadly, despite being some ...

Do you want to see a grown man whimper in terror? Place him in a new bookstore with zero experience ...

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

One of my favorite annual year-end articles is Slate’s “Overlooked Books” of the year. As is usually the case, this ...

It’s a golden age if you’re novelist-slash-screenwriter! In the past, it’s been a relatively rare occurrence that a writer would ...

A few years ago, I wrote a silly post about literary confessions — one of which was that I frequently ...

Get your rotten vegetables ready, hipsters, cynics, and sanctimonious self-professed defenders of what you view as the literary canon. This ...

This past Monday was Opening Day for the inaugural season of Book Riot Fantasy Authorball. You’ve never seen eight people ...

Very soon, all over the country, in suites at the Bellagio, party rooms at Hooter’s, and your mom’s basement, groups ...

In this great post from June 2012, Rioter Rebecca covers the question about whether book memories are sensory memories — ...