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Michelle Anne Schingler

Michelle Anne Schingler, a former librarian and Hebrew school teacher, is the managing editor at Foreword Reviews. Her days are books, books, books; she knows how lucky that makes her.  Twitter: @mschingler

The Cruel Temptations of Fancy Cookbooks

Unless you live in a place where exotic spices and proteins are readily available, and are the kind of person ...

GO SET A WATCHMAN Will Break Your Heart (And You Should Read it Anyway)

I have always craved more Atticus Finch. He’s become a household god, of sorts, in the lives and literary sensibilities ...

What Would Atticus Do?

This post is part of our Harper Lee Reading Day: a celebration of one of the most surprising literary events of ...

Leave No Trace: Why Readers Should Not Troll Library Books

Can we establish a “leave no trace” policy in libraries? No sand under the dust jacket, no Cheetos-prints on pages, ...

Stacked: The Single Librarian’s Search for Love

While we at the Riot are taking this lovely summer week off to rest (translation: read by the pool/ocean/on our ...

Literary Tourism: Provo, Utah

Provo, Utah, is gorgeous. The city has draws beyond the purely aesthetic—Brigham Young University, which consistently ranks among the best ...

Curves Ahead: How “Spoiler Alerts” Get It Wrong

Not long ago, a friend of mine mentioned that they’d never seen Citizen Kane. I shrugged and said, “Rosebud is ...

Books and Children First: Bookish Apocalypse Movies

Neatnicks beware the unread books pile. Unattended too long, it takes on a Jenga tilt, with precariously positioned volumes threatening ...

Stacked: The Single Librarian’s Search for Love

Vestiges of the sexy-librarian trope persist.  When I accepted a job with the local library system, friends reminded me, half ...

On the The Literary Pilgrimage

This is a guest post from Michelle Anne Schingler. Michelle Anne has graduate degrees from the University of Georgia and ...