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Book-O’-Lanterns!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, lit-lovers: HALLOWEEN TIME! And what better way to combine your love of ...

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Superfan Scorned

Warning: It’s impossible to write this piece without discussing spoilers for Veronica Roth’s Allegiant, the conclusion to her dystopian Divergent ...

An Open Letter to Dave Eggers

Dear Dave, Can I call you Dave? When I teach A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, I call you Eggers. But ...

Cool Bookish Places: Bookworm Gardens

Some cool bookish places are just so cool they make you ache. Bookworm Gardens certainly fits that bill. The park, ...

The 10 Best Beards in Literature

Almost exactly two years ago, we ran a post on 10 awesome literary mustaches. It was indeed awesome, and yet something ...

Let’s Talk About Racism in the Classics

I love Gone With the Wind. Like, named-my-son-Rhett, dressed-up-as-Scarlett-for-Halloween-once, read-it-over-and-over LOVE the thing. But ya know what? It’s racist. Kit wrote a ...

I Couldn’t Finish GONE WITH THE WIND Because it Was So Racist

I’ve been on a childhood favorites kick (recently talked about rereading Little House on the Prairie for Book Riot) and ...

Pairing Wines with Genres

Readers who came of age in the 80s are sure to remember the lyric from the Beastie Boys song The ...

Finding Libraries in Unexpected Places

We usually think about libraries as staid and steady buildings, safely immobile on our city streets. Like, say, this rather ...

Getting Started with Alice Munro

Today, Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature. We thought many readers might want some suggestions about how to ...