‘Goodnight Stranger’: Featured Fiction from Miciah Bay Gault
In today’s installment of featured fiction—curated by our own Carolyn Quimby—we present an excerpt from Miciah Bay Gault’s novel, Goodnight Stranger, out today from Park Row—and...
My Poem Will Not Save You: Featured Poetry by Dunya Mikhail
Our series of poetry excerpts continues with a poem from In Her Feminine Sign, the new book by Dunya Mikhail. Full of gently-delivered lines that rumble...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for July 30th, 2019
Sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re hot! Today’s Featured Deals...
How to Sell Your Personal Essay: A Simple Guide for Beginners
Most essayists agree that the most difficult part of writing essays is finding the right home for their work. The truth is, even a fantastic personal...
Is It Okay If I Don’t Care About Making Money from Writing?
The Blunt Instrument is an advice column for writers. If you need tough advice for a writing problem, send your question to [email protected]. For early access to Blunt...
What Writers Need to Know About Morality Clauses
In 1921, the silent film star Fatty Arbuckle was accused of raping and murdering the actress Virginia Rappé at an illicit gin party he’d thrown in...
“This Land Is Our Land” Is the Manifesto We Need at a Time When Immigration Is Being Criminalized
Suketu Mehta’s latest non-fiction book, This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto, takes its title from the Woody Guthrie song, which most wouldn’t associate as...
The Best YA Novels Starring DC Superheroes
Recently I did a roundup of all the books expected from DC Ink and DC Zoom, DC’s respective YA and middle grade imprints (which were even...
What I Learned From Tracking My Toddler’s Reading
My library’s Summer Reading Challenge takes place from 1 June to 31 August and requires you to read ten books, or for ten hours. When I...
Read Your Tea With These Literary Tea Lines
Reading tea leaves is an art of which I am not capable. So I settle for the closest thing to it—sipping book-inspired teas. Here are a...
