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Jennifer Paull

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Bookish Boozing: 5 Literary Wine Labels

Judging by the wine labels I’ve been looking at lately (like Jimmy Carter, with lust in my heart), many winemakers ...

Nonfiction Books That Should Be Reshelved as Fiction

Turns out that the library sign in Manly, Australia, directing readers to the fiction section to find any Lance Armstrong ...

How to Pack a Suitcase Full of Books

How many of us traveled after the holidays with a pachyderm’s weight worth of new books in our suitcases? I’d ...

Best of Book Riot: Authors Discuss How to Ask Good Questions for Q & A

To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll ...

Best of Book Riot: 12 Celebrities Who Should Have Their Own Imprints

To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll ...

Whatever Happened to Kendall Hailey?: Part 2

Now that I’ve tracked down Kendall Hailey, author of the terrific memoir The Day I Became an Autodidact, she gamely ...

Rediscovering a Writer: Whatever Happened to Kendall Hailey?

PART 1 Not long ago, something seized and joggled my memory’s elbow, and I thought of a wonderful memoir I’d ...

5 Great Multi-Purpose Gift Books

It’s time for another edition of multi-purpose gift books! As with last year’s recommendations, I’ve rounded up a handful of ...

5 Questions for Jen Adams of THE BOOKS THEY GAVE ME

Could this be the ultimate meta-gift? The Books They Gave Me, a paper-and-glue collection culled from Jen Adams’s blog of ...

Nancy Huston Scores the Bad Sex in Fiction Award

Good thing E. L. James has her Person of the Year in publishing award to keep her warm, since she ...