Canadian Librarian Responds To Threats Against Drag Story Hour by Adding Second Event
This Pride month has been a difficult one for U.S. libraries: white supremacists have stormed Drag Queen Story Hours, libraries have been defaced with the word...
Say You Were Gonna Make a Bomb: On Bud Smith’s ‘Teenager’
“Just let the happy couple have their happiness, okay. Shakespeare had it wrong. So did all the copycats. Everything didn’t have to end so viciously.” Fiction writers...
Book Riot’s SFF Deals for June 27, 2022
Today’s edition of SFF Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $2.99 The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu Get This Deal $1.99 Coraline by Neil...
Book Riot’s Mystery Deals for June 27, 2022
Today’s edition of Mystery Daily Deals is sponsored by $2.99 Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby Get This Deal $2.99 If We Were Villains by M....
Angie Thomas’s ON THE COME UP Teaser Trailer Is Here
Angie Thomas’s sophomore novel, On The Come Up, follows 16-year-old aspiring rapper Bri. Bri dreams of rap stardom and gets her break after a battle, wherein...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for June 27, 2022
Today’s edition of Daily Deals is sponsored by Today’s Featured Deals $2.99 Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby Get This Deal $2.99 Things to Do When...
My God Has the Head of a Vulture
Ornithology After Theodore Roethke To find the owl I must follow the crow who says my ears and eyes better behave; it’s hard for me to...
7 of the Most Memorable Bartenders in Literature
I have thought a lot, over my decade-plus of drinking and working in bars, about what makes any one establishment stand out over another. Why are...
22 More Great New Books To Read in 2022
Okay, you know I have to say it, so let’s just get it out of the way now: WHERE HAS THE YEAR GONE??? Somehow, it’s already...
10 Best Mysteries with a Twist
Is there anything more delicious than a big twist in a book? In the best mysteries with a twist, the narrator leads you down one path,...
