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Review GPA: WILD by Cheryl Strayed

Wild by Cheryl Strayed Publication Date: March 20, 2012 Genre: Memoir Publisher: Knopf Publisher’s Synopsis: A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the ...

What’s On Your Nightstand?

Thank you all for your enthusiastic participation in our first installment of this new regular feature. As all of us ...

Why The Elements of Style Breaks Its Own Rules…and Why You Should Too

The Elements of Style, a slim writing handbook by E.B. White and his writing teacher William Strunk, is the Art ...

Cover Image for Salman Rushdie’s Memoir, JOSEPH ANTON

On Twitter yesterday, Salman Rushdie showed off the US cover for his memoir, Joseph Anton, which will be released  September ...

Nonfiction for the Life and Times of MAD MEN

Sometime today, my fellow Book Riot contributors will be posting their book recommendations for the characters of Mad Men. Although ...

Genre Kryptonite: Nerdy Science History for the Masses

This guest installment comes Alexandra Jacunski, a graduate student in Pharmacology at The University of Toronto. She also blogs about her ...

Dinner Table in the Sky: Food Writers

Get the fantasy place cards ready! We’re back around the Dinner Table in the Sky, imagining which writers, living or ...

Essential Pepin: Jacques Pepin, French Cookbook Chef and Chevalier

ChefJacques Pepin charmingly serves up French food and wisdom.

Spring Gardening: How-To Plant and Garden Books

How-to garden books.

What’s Wrong with Chick Nonfiction?

Readers and writers who are upset by real and perceived sexism in book reviews in The New York Times got ...