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START HERE Write-In Giveaway Finalist #4

The Insatiable Booksluts were selected as a finalist in our Write-In Giveaway, in which we invited the Book Riot community to submit ...

Charlie Kaufman’s Novel: When Is Medium Crossing Okay?

Man, am I curious to know what Charlie Kaufman’s novel is about. Aren’t you? Have you seen his films? Being ...

Fake Plots of Cormac McCarthy’s THE COUNSELOR

In a bit of a surprise, Cormac McCarthy recently sold an original screenplay to the same production company that made ...

We’re All Gonna DIE! (Literature for the Apocalypse)

If the Mayans are to be believed, we have just over a year and a month left here on good ...

Top Five AWOL Novelists: Was It Something I Said?

You know what would be kind of awesome? If cream-‘o’-the-crop novelists like Jonathan Franzen, Haruki Murakami and Jeffrey Eugenides published ...

If You Like (Insert Something), Try (This Other Thing): TRUE GRIT Edition

True Grit by Charles Portis is a classic of the western genre, full of guns and horses and cowboys and spurs ...

Books We “Like”: Uncollected Thoughts on Facebook and Reading

I don’t think I was alone in finding myself perturbed when Facebook changed the look of its “Arts and Entertainment ...