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Booking the Booker: Three Raves and One Shocking Dud

Three previous winners of the Booker Prize count among my favorite books, but one, probably the most popular recent winner, ...

What’s On Your Nightstand?: Dressed for Success

I apologize immediately for giving you a Roxette ear worm with this post’s title. While Roxette may be culturally cobweb ...

What’s On Your Nightstand?: The Problem of Reach

They say we’re all just one phone call from our knees. In my case, it was just one concrete step: ...

Margaret Atwood: Kickstarter Reject, IndieGoGo Hopeful

Margaret Atwood, the acclaimed author, novelist, and poet, seems like she can do anything. At age 72, she’s still writing ...

Riot Asks: Emily St. John Mandel

Emily St. John Mandel was born on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada. She studied dance at The School ...

Sites We Like: The Lisa Simpson Book Club

One of the many many things I like about The Simpsons is that there isn’t any single character that the writers want ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bookish Baby :: The Shower

So, we’ve gotten bookish married… now it’s time to get ready for that bookish baby. A big trend these days ...

The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: An Editor’s Dilemma

Last week, I read a book from cover to cover that I simply loathed. (Yes, I almost always finish a ...