‘Sing to It’: Featured Fiction from Amy Hempel
In today’s featured fiction, we present a short story from Amy Hempel’s first story collection since 2006, Sing to It, out tomorrow from Scribner. The title...
Whitaker, Fugitive from Justice
On March 2, former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker abruptly resigned from a new Justice Department position only two weeks into the job—after he learned that...
Amy Hempel on Turning Survival into a Story
Amy Hempel’s Sing To It is her newest short story collection and her first in over a decade. Each piece is precisely honed and crafted with...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 24th, 2019
Sponsored by our What’s Up in YA Giveaway of a $100 gift card to Amazon! Enter here. These deals were active as of this writing, but...
Wading Through the Sludge
According to the Office of Management and Budget, in 2015, Americans spent 9.78 billion hours on federal paperwork. The Treasury Department, including the Internal Revenue Service,...
Is Tunisia Ready for Gender Equality?
On January 14, the eighth anniversary of the Tunisian revolution, I joined the crowds passing through metal detectors to gather in Tunis’s Avenue Habib Bourguiba. A...
The Hallowed Walls of The American Writers Museum
Early in February I finally got to go the American Writers Museum here in Chicago. I saw that Ross Gay was reading from his new essay...
Who Adapted it Better? TV vs. Movie Adaptations
In the age of multiple TV and movie adaptations, book lovers can be spoiled for choice. Sometimes the small screen is better than the big screen. And...
32 Cross-Media Recommendations: Book and Movie/TV Pairings
When I read, tone is one of the biggest things I’m looking for. Algorithm suggestions don’t work very well for me. Because of that, I have...
51 Must-See Bookstores Across the US: Critical Linking, March 24, 2019
Sponsored by Forge Books. For a book lover, there’s nothing quite like the quintessential charm of local bookstores. They bring the community together with their warm and...
