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Is Tamar Adler’s AN EVERLASTING MEAL A Cookbook?

I pick up most cookbooks with the intention of cooking something within them, something from one of the pretty pictures ...

The Best Covers of Book Expo America 2012

Half the fun of walking the floor at BEA is just looking at thousands of books. I’ve rounded up the ...

I Bet That You Look Good on the Show Floor

Last week, this little country mouse left cozy New Hampshire behind and attended Book Expo America in NYC – holy ...

The Book Riot BEA Buzz

The Editors’ Buzz panel, in which six editors each present their most highly anticipated title for fall, is Book Expo ...

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 ...

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 Round-Up: The Best of What We Read in May

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

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. _________________________ ...

Annie Dillard on The Writing Life

I don’t really know how these kinship trees work, but Annie Dillard is my third or fourth cousin twice or ...

Riot Recommendation: Food Writing

On the short list of Things I Love As Much as I Love Books, food takes one of the top ...