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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.

Book Expo America, Day 2 Highlights: Sex Book Edition

The list of books I heard about today that tickled my fancy takes up, I kid you not, 10 pages ...

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER Trailer featuring Emma Watson and Paul Rudd

If your adolescence, like mine, was at least partially defined by the desire to feel infinite, you might have been ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: June 5, 2012

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

A Publisher, an Agent, an Author, a Bookseller, and a Blogger Walk Into a Room (x10000)

This week, many of us at Book Riot are in New York to attend Book Expo America. If you’ve not heard ...

Feed Me, Seymour: A Round-Up of Recommended Food Writing

Last week, I asked for book recommendations to feed my need to read about food, cooking, and the eating life. ...

Riot Recommendation: Roadtrip Audiobooks

Riot reader Margot Wood is in search of audiobook recommendations for an upcoming roadtrip. She posted on our Facebook page: ...

Open Thread: May 30, 2012

I’m thinking lately about the unique joy I get from revisiting cultural touchstones of my past and seeing them with ...

Open Thread: May 29, 2012

Welcome back from the long weekend! What’s on your mind today?

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: May 29, 2012

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

“They carried all they could bear, and then some…”

Every year around Memorial Day, I revisit Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. It was the first war story I ...