Bryan Washington’s Houston Is a City of Multitudes
Bryan Washington’s debut collection is an ode to his native Houston and a meditation on what it was like to grow up queer and black in...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for April 9th, 2019
Sponsored by our $100 Amazon gift card giveaway! Enter here. These deals were active as of this writing, but may expire soon, so get them while they’re...
“Group” Therapy
Novel Gazing is Electric Literature’s personal essay series about the way reading shapes our lives. This time, we asked: What’s a book that changed your mind? I was...
7 Novels About Dreams that Reveal Hidden Desires or Dark Fears
When I started working on what is now my debut novel, The Dream Peddler, I never gave much thought to how a book riddled with dream...
Susan Orlean’s Love Letter to Libraries Is Also a Look at Their Prejudiced Past
I survived growing up in Mississippi by reading. The Greenwood-Leflore Public Library was only three blocks from my house. At the time I didn’t understand how...
Need a Bisexual, Time Traveling Samurai? Alison Wilgus has a CHRONIN for That
As you are all no doubt aware at this point, it is my quest in life not to avoid comics by the Big Two but to curate...
28 Romance Novellas You Should Check Out Immediately
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been having trouble hunkering down with a nice, lengthy read this year. Out of the twenty or so romances...
How to Talk To Your Favorite Authors at Signings and Book Talks
Meeting your favorite author is often a mix of excitement and a touch of fear. Will they be as awesome in person as you imagined? Will...
10 Political YA Books to Keep You Engaged
Four years ago, Kelly provided a roundup of political YA books, and suffice it to say that the sociopolitical landscape has changed since then. There’s a...
Highlighting Hugo Finalists and Fandom Communities Quick Sip Reviews and A03
Asimov has a story about how often he’d present for Hugo Awards but was never chosen for one. This was the 1930s when he started publishing...
