#Literary Fiction

Riot Reviews Rooster, A New EReading App

Rioters review Rooster, the new ebook app.

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in March

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver In The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan examined three different types of food–industrial, pastoral, and ...

THE BIOGRAPHIZER TRILOGY by D. Harlan Wilson: A Review

Three biographies that are not biographies; that are fiction and yet not. D. Harlan Wilson's latest trilogy is a fascinating puzzle.

Problems With the Likable/Unlikable Characters Debate

Roxane Gay is pro-unlikable characters. As is Claire Messud, as is Meg Wolitzer.  Jennifer Weiner is pro-likable characters. So many, many people ...

Seducing Your Writing Students Is Not in the Job Description

I recently read Carla Blumenkranz’s “Seduce the Whole World: Gordon Lish’s Workshop,” an essay that appeared in The New Yorker and ...

Grading B.J. Novak’s ONE MORE THING, Story by Story

[buyandread isbn=”0385351836″ linkshare=”https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/one-more-thing”] Every once in a while I grade a collection of essays or stories on Book Riot, essay ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in February

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...

Cover Face-Off: AMERICANAH by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Americanah, one of the most acclaimed books of 2013, hits bookstores in paperback on March 4th with a whole new look Check ...

The How-To’s of Historical Fiction: An Interview with Nancy Horan

Nancy Horan discusses writing her latest, Under The Wide and Starry Sky.

“Did Jane Austen Ever Have Sex Dreams About Her Characters?” and Other UnGoogleable Book Questions

Sometimes, late at night, when the world is sleeping and I am NOT SLEEPING, I look up at my ceiling ...