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Rebecca Joines Schinsky

Rebecca Joines Schinsky is the Chief of Staff for Riot New Media Group and a co-host of the Book Riot Podcast.

Writer’s Clock Giveaway!

Few of the items we’ve shared in Book Fetish or featured on our Facebook page have received quite as many, ...

Riot Recommendation: A Round-Up of Futuristic/Virtual Reality Stories

This installment of Riot Recommendation is sponsored by Ready Player One by Ernest Cline.  It’s the year 2044, and-like most of humanity-Wade ...

Open Thread: June 15, 2012

The lines are open. What’s on your mind today?

Are Reading Memories Sense Memories?

It’s widely accepted that olfactory memories–those tied to scents–are the most powerful of memories. You get in an elevator with ...

Hit the Road with These Reader-Recommended Audiobooks

A couple weeks ago, we put out the call for audiobook recommendations for a Riot reader who is planning to ...

What’s Missing from Your Online Book Club Experience?

When we asked, “What can Book Riot do for you?” a couple weeks ago, the request that came up with ...

20 Awesome (Fake) Literary Band Names

When I dropped the phrase “Proust and the Madeleines” into a post I was working on earlier this week, my ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: June 13, 2012

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting titles we’re excited to see arrive in paperback. This ...

What Author Haven’t You Read Because You Don’t Know Where to Start?

This is a question we’ve been thinking about a lot lately at Riot Central, and it’s one we asked many ...

Open Thread: June 11, 2012–What’s New, Pussycat?

It’s easy, in the excitement of Book Expo America, to forget that the literary world keeps rolling on outside the ...