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Drop It Like It’s Haute: Happy Lit’Oween

As per usual this time of year, the interweb is positively a-crawl with photos and how-to guides should you wish ...

Drop It Like It’s Haute: The Jersey Shore Booktionary, Volume IV

Welcome to Drop It Like It’s Haute, a weekly celebration of that unholiest of marriages between pop culture and literature. __________ ...

Spooky Reads: Zombie Fatigue

I used to like zombies, I really did. When I saw 28 Days Later (almost ten years ago now) I ...

Drop It Like It’s Haute: The Jersey Shore Booktionary, Volume III

Welcome to Drop It Like It’s Haute, a weekly celebration of that unholiest of marriages between pop culture and literature. __________ ...

Literary Fact of the Day

Those of you who follow Book Riot on Twitter know that we run a daily nugget of literary trivia there ...

The “Swiss Army” Recommendation

A few years ago, I started writing an annual Top 10 list of books for friends and family. It appeared around Christmas ...

If You Like (Insert Something), Try (This Other Thing): TRUE GRIT Edition

True Grit by Charles Portis is a classic of the western genre, full of guns and horses and cowboys and spurs ...

Drop It Like It’s Haute: The Jersey Shore Booktionary, Volume II

Welcome to Drop It Like It’s Haute, a weekly celebration of that unholiest of marriages between pop culture and literature. ...

Glasgow Snuff Films: Where Great Books Go To Die

The sight of Halle Berry and Brad Pitt chills my blood. Trust me, I’ve seen them. The pair stalk the ...

The Confidence Index: Franzen’s THE CORRECTIONS on HBO

The Confidence Index….in which we assess the chance that an upcoming adaptation of a novel/book/short story/comic will not suck. A ...